The first brass bed washed up on England’s shores about 200 years ago. People were amazed. Is this what the French are sleeping on! Seriously! What the hell! Lords and ladies raced to their boats, invaded France, and soon golden beds were gleaming from every...
Source: Pendleton USA This week we look at a seriously cool heritage product from the USA, The Pendleton Blanket. My sister-in-law hails from Portland, Oregon. As a wedding gift she and her husband gave us an absolutely massive woollen blanket. Now I have to confess...
Framing pictures can be an expensive business. We have dozens of pictures sitting in our cupboard and not on our walls. The other day I decided to sort this out by setting up my own framing workshop. I figured that for the same price as getting a couple of pictures...
I bet every first-time buyer’s house has a box in the garden shed, or under the stairs that looks a bit like this: Hundreds of pounds spent on 50ml pots of fractionally different shades of essentially the same colour. A rummage through our box reveals: Natural...
The space where wall meets ceiling garnered a fair bit of attention back in the day, with elaborately moulded coving donning the upper reaches of many a Victorian Room. If you are lucky, your period home will already contain well-preserved original examples. If not,...
