Homes that feel as good as they look

I think this might be one of my favourite moments of the year. The trees are still green, there are flowers in the garden and, on a good day, there’s still enough warmth in the sun to sit outside. But something has definitely shifted and whilst I’m not quite ready for autumn yet I am enjoying the slow transition. The light is gentler and the warmth softer. August can become so dry and heavy; all the foliage reaches its deepest green and by the end of the month everything can

There’s a little moment at the beginning of September when the summer holidays and the new school term converge. After weeks of lazy mornings, not knowing what day of the week it is, it's back to alarm clocks, school bags, uniforms and strict schedules. Often the term starts with a couple of days and then almost immediately it's the weekend again, which is actually quite a clever idea, a sort of soft launch back into real life rather than going from zero to five in one hit. S

I’ve just come back from my sister’s wedding in Italy, and somewhere between the ceremony, the dancing and rather a lot of very late nights, I started thinking about old and new. Weddings are rather wonderful examples of the two coming together. Small children running around, grandparents, young adults just starting out in life, couples beginning families, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, 80-year-olds dancing with 20-year-olds. The people who have known you all your lif

I have spent most of my working life looking at homes through the lens of a camera. Styling rooms, moving things around, finding the right angle, waiting for the light to change. After all these years, I know that a photograph can give you a snapshot of a room, but of course, that’s not the whole storyA photograph is the ultimate edit. You choose what goes into the frame and, just as importantly, what stays outside it. Very often a few inches to one side there’s a pile of dis