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GEORGIAN RENOVATION

15th November 2016

I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say this many times again, but some properties just grab you with one single space – that one room that connects with your taste or feels inspiring in some way. And so it was when I first opened the photos by SquareFoot of this property in Edinburgh’s Stockbridge area and saw the kitchen and dining space. I love an eclectic mix in a kitchen, and this room has so much personality and character, from the Georgian flagstone floor scattered with rugs to the entire art wall in the dining area, to the unexpected contrast of the Chinese Peony wallpaper from Sanderson against the industrial-styled black extractor.

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MELBOURNE KITCHEN

19th October 2016

I love when I happen across a photo while scrolling on Pinterest and click through only to find a fantastic house, as was the case when I repinned this photo (below) from Inside Out and came to this dramatically redesigned 1970s home in Melbourne, which was featured in the magazine. The entire house has been beautifully designed by Chelsea Hing – you can find the gallery of photos by the very talented Eve Wilson here – but the space that really caught my eye was the light-filled dining and kitchen zone.

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ST LAZARE

29th July 2014

When I spotted this kitchen featured on Desire to Inspire, well, I had to share it. It’s simple and crisp. It has a pleasing blend of materials with warm grey oak wall cabinets and matte white base cabinets set against custom European white oak floors. It’s calm. The white glass splasback catches the light and then there’s that sculptural swirl of a pendant suspended over the island. That single fluid touch feels so right here, offsetting the linear lines elsewhere and echoing, in a sense, the curve of the original arched windows. Continue Reading…

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MELBOURNE TOWNHOUSE

22nd July 2014

Let’s blame the summery weather here in the UK for my current obsession with houses that open up to the great outdoors, where the design is about the indoor-outdoor flow of space and an interior that feels, well, dare I say cool, both physically in terms of the finishes used and also aesthetically. Continue Reading…

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PALMERSTON PLACE

9th May 2014

Some posts really do require restraint. I could easily have posted twenty more images of this incredible townhouse in Edinburgh’s West End, which is now on the market with Strutt & Parker. (See my Steller story if, like me, you can’t resist more images.) Indeed, I could have written two posts: one devoted to the fantastic open plan kitchen, dining and living space that inhabits the garden level of this four-floor property, and a second about the rest of the house, which is just as impressive, from the interconnected formal drawing and dining rooms that stretch the depth of the house on the ground floor to the vast, and I mean vast master suite that takes up the entire first floor. (Yes, the entire first floor. It’s stunning.)

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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…