Patric Johannson

I was trawling through our archives looking for rooms that really ticked all the boxes for me. Kim has been so organised, grouping them by rooms type. I’ve managed to get through January to March and lumped them all together. (You should see Kim’s photo files, all catalogued by room type or colour. Mine are jumbled in ever growing, ever spreading folders.) One thing I did realise is that we post a lot of pictures! The other thing that dawned on me is that I’m looking for other things in a room now. Don’t get me wrong. I still love bold and brash, colourful and glam. Hollywood Regency still makes my hear skip and pure midcentury is perfection but these are some of my favourites, right here, right now. I think I’m mellowing. Click on the images to go to the original post to see more.

Mark Lund

Inside Out

Patric Johannson

McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors

   Glen Proebstel

Barnaby Tuke

The Christmas card elves dropped a little e-card in my inbox on Christmas Eve.  Julia Buckingham Edelmann of Buckingham Interiors + Design was wishing us season’s greetings and let slip the exciting news that she has a new website. Love a new website especially with new work and, of course, I love Julia’s work which she has generously shared with us before (here). Now that the holiday chaos has settled I finally got a chance to check it out. I couldn’t wait till regular posting next week to share. Julia’s work mixes classic with contemporary, elegance with a twist of fun. In fact she really lets her hair down when it comes to her commercial work!

Dear readers gather round. Time for the third installment in our holiday reading guide. I hope you’re not too exhausted from your blog hopping. No! If you’re anything like me you can’t get enough of new blogs.  It’s like chocolate coated almonds at Christmas time. Too many is never enough. Here we go……

Day two of our blog-a-rama. I hope you’ve saved room. (If I see one more chocolate or ham sandwich I’ll be sick. I love Christmas but it’s hard going at times!) Once more dear readers settle in for a trip across the world and back. Enjoy and see you for more tomorrow.

Welcome welcome welcome! How did your Christmas go? Too much food and watching great aunt Minnie’ dentures travel down her chest as she snores quietly at the end of the table? (True story only the name has been changed!) Well it’s time to pour a cup of nice hot tea, sink into your chair and join in a Desire to Inspire Christmas tradition…. the holiday reading guide to blogs big and small, home design, other design, in English or not, new or new to me. I spend my spare time jumping from link to link and lurking on lots of blogs. Warning though. Take your time, savour them all and save room for more guides over the coming days.