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How to Make Your Home Cooler Than Your Friends’ Homes: Stop Designing Kitchens for Photos
A designer’s guide to kitchens that feel lived-in, AND beautiful
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An Interior Designer on Kendall Jenner’s Mountain House - and the Problem With Designing Something to Look Old
Dec 15, 2025
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Why Time Feels Different in Dakota Johnson’s Home
Dec 28, 2025
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How to Make Your Home Cooler Than Your Friends’ Homes (Your Hallway Is Telling on You)
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Every paint colour I used in my home
Sep 22, 2024
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How to Make Your Home Cooler Than Your Friends’ Homes (Your Hallway Is Telling on You)
The easiest way to out-design your friends? Start at the door.
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How to Become Cooler Than Your Friends (At Home)
A new series starting this January!
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Why Time Feels Different in Dakota Johnson’s Home
#54: The House Diaries: How architecture, colour, and lived-in logic make a celebrity home feel quietly effortless
Dec 28, 2025
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Things I Like, Things on My Mind & Is the Secret to Perfect Skin Simply… Plotting the Downfall of Our Enemies?
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Dec 7, 2025
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Warning: This Hallway Glow-Up Might Make You Repaint Yours
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Nov 29, 2025
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Three Things I Absolutely Need to Share From Nice: Food, Family & a Ridiculous Discount
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Nov 16, 2025
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I fucking love my job (and that’s the problem)
#51: A love letter to burnout, booked one month in advance
Nov 2, 2025
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The House Diaries: How to choose the right paint colour part. 3
#50: When the Paint Dries - Living With Colour
Oct 21, 2025
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The House Diaries: I fucking hate my job
Because sometimes, hating your job is the start of everything good.
Oct 10, 2025
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The House Diaries: How I Went From “I Hate Gardening” to Talking to Plants
#48 A slightly obsessive, very muddy love story with cosmos, dahlias, and Walker’s Low
Sep 27, 2025
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The House Diaries: From clickbait to belonging: why interiors should be lived, not performed
#47: Designing homes that carry memory, personality, and authenticity - beyond trends, hashtags, and scrollable aesthetics.
Sep 13, 2025
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