I'm going to be the fly in the ointment and say "I don't like it". There are things about it that I do like, such as the clever contrast between glossy marble and matt slate in the kitchen (the lux...

I think that cocktail parties reached their zenith in the late 50s and early 60s, so I tend to go with smart music from the era: Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Astrud Gilberto, Herbie Hancock, Jack Jo...

It'd be ironic if the Grueby Faience tiles turned out to be hideous. Although judging by the images I found through google, that's very unlikely.

Theoretically allowing the next tenant to choose is a good idea, but we have to remember that most people are design illiterate and either a) don't care about colour schemes or b) would choose some...

I say embrace the frou. Put up some ornate oval-shaped gilt frames, with or without anything in them.

There are two kinds of people in the western world; those who get Sinophilia and those who don't. I'm with the latter group.

great house! what kind of plant is on the floor by the zebra rug? Sansevieria trifasciata, or Mother In Law's Tongue. Virtually unkillable, drought-tolerant, thrives in low ligh...

Have you any idea of how hard it is to strip varnish off decorative fretwork? Stripping and painting these pieces will be a mammoth job. Craigslist the suckers and start afresh.

There are two problems here. 1. Hanging any framed photo on this wall would be like driving a nail into the centre of a big oil painting and hanging another picture on it. You don't ha...

I love chesterfields. They're the perfect couch - classic, graceful, hard wearing, structurally robust, and comfortable both for sitting upright and sprawling (and sitting on the arms). The lines a...

Is this home office used for business purposes, or just for balancing the checkbook and playing Half Life 2? If it's the latter, you need to ditch the furniture you have now - it looks like a depre...

I like the idea, but not the execution. To my eye she's taken a cheap, generic piece of furniture and made it look like a completely different cheap, generic piece of furniture. If she'd used a col...

I have a philosophical problem with the whole paint-everything-white scenario. However, if one MUST paint everything white, this is the way to do it.

If I were you I'd forget about red and yellow - they're too McDonaldsy and they won't match the mustard and cream colours of your cabinetry. The idea in lisao's link is probably the best one. Anoth...

I like the idea of decorated fridges... I just hate these ones. The rose one on the extreme right looks like it would belong to someone who'd seen 'Twilight' 200 times. Blech. The w...

Anyone who's played Bioshock will be a little disturbed by the rabbit mask in the first picture. If you're 30 and you still feel the psychological need to create a fort, then I say you...

I like it, but I'd be awake all night waiting for those heavy books to fall on my head. On the other hand, mjs7640, there'd be a certain delicious irony in someone getting brain...

$4,800? For a child's light fixture? Well, at least this disproves the right-wing smear that Obama is a socialist.

Everything was so overly done it made me want to leave a stack of condoms on the overly perfect bedside table... LOL, LoriSF. I can see a whole new fad of guerilla de-styling p...

I have a slump glass tray, made by a friend who had tried her hand at painting part of the underside and failed miserably (at her own admission). I tried nail polish remover, hydrochloric acid, ste...