That’s a Seventies colour, isn’t it? Good grief!! But … notice the orange touches creeping into styled sets and ads in the glossy mags, and couple that with Kate Watson-Smyth’s recent comment in her MadAboutTheHouse blog, and you know a movement is afoot. ‘You might as well prepare yourself for the burnt orange but it […]

‘How can a trend, which is surely allied to a fashion, be future-proof?’  asks Kate Watson-Smyth in her blog ‘Mad About The House’. A question answered convincingly by her guest blogger Rohini Wahi, a trend forecaster for the design industry, who based her premise ‘Five trends that will last forever’ purely on looking at what […]

  If anyone had said to me, say 5 years ago, that I’d not only be reading a Topps Tiles ad, but also appreciating and agreeing with its sentiments, I’d have thought them mad.  But Pile It High, Sell It Cheap appears to be morphing into

  Like many Cyprus houses built approximately 15 years ago, ours had a balcony which was rather more decorative than useful.  It was accessed by a door from the landing, with a window from the main bedroom. But it really lent itself to making a great ensuite so we designed and constructed a timber framed, […]

If it weren’t for Pinterest, I’d have time for Instagram… If it weren’t for Pinterest, I’d have finished the ironing or gone for a walk… But I must admit, I’m hooked on it. For me it’s all about interiors (mostly tiles, no surprises there) but for someone who has boxes of stuff ripped out from […]

Until the Grand Designs programme viewed last autumn, the name Noreen Jaafar and the delectable tiles she makes under the name of Jaafar Designs was only known to family, friends and a select band of stockists and delighted customers. The cat is out of the bag. Now everyone knows that Noreen and her husband Jon […]