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LÄNGHOLMEN

15th November 2017

It’s been way too long since I’ve shared a gorgeous Swedish home, and while I have a list of spaces I need to share – look out for a fantastic Edinburgh Airbnb coming up – I just wanted to start with this super-styled Stockholm apartment. Why? Well, because Edinburgh is really feeling like winter now. It’s cold and it’s grey and I’m missing daylight. And this light-filled apartment is reminding me that winter won’t last forever. Anyone else need cheering up today?

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RUSTON MEWS

17th October 2017

Designer, author and photographer Claire Lloyd is passionate about light – as she writes on her website, ‘Light makes my spirit soar’ – and this is evident in Claire’s approach to each interior project, from her light-filled Greek island home, which was the subject of her 2012 book entitled My Greek Island Home, to this minimal mews house in London’s Notting Hill which Claire redesigned completely (she has since sold the property), photographed here by Nathalie Priem. From her early career working in art direction for magazines including Australian Vogue, to more recent work as an author of two books – her first, Sensual Living, was published in 1998 – Australian-born Claire’s eye for simplicity and refined detailing has resulted in interiors with a beautifully understated and quiet aesthetic.

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A PHOTOGRAPHER’S HOME IN GHENT

11th May 2016

Maybe it’s just me, but certain homes seem to resonate at certain times of the year. And now that spring seems to have officially landed in Scotland, I’m feeling drawn to white and airy living spaces and indoor-outdoor living.

This converted warehouse in the Belgian city of Ghent caught my eye from Inside Out. This former dairy warehouse dates from the 1930s and was converted by photographer Emilie Vercruysse and her husband David de Behr, who live here with their three children. The couple came across the building in 2007 and immediately saw the potential to create an interesting home and work space here, including a photographic studio for Emilie.

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A TERRACED HOUSE REBORN

6th May 2014

I first came across Paul Archer Design a few years ago with the practice’s project on Cross Street in Islington in London. One striking image of the ‘bridge’ structure that extends from the main body of the house to the garden – a structure that contains a super-minimal kitchen – kept cropping up online, and I must admit my first response when I saw this image was: surely this is a really cool looking architectural rendering of someone’s dream project. Continue Reading…

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FOUR-CORNERED VILLA

20th December 2013

A few weeks ago I featured a minimal black and white timber house on Copperline: crisp white inside, warmed by the furnishings in black, dark grey and natural wood, and with black painted pine cladding on the exterior. I didn’t think I’d find something else where this monochromatic palette was used to achieve an even more streamlined and pared back effect, but this house in Virrat in Finland really is, simply, black and white. Continue Reading…