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5 days ago | 
eleanorcordingbooth.substack.com | Eleanor Cording-Booth
This is a long one: I’d recommend opening it in your browser so it doesn’t get cut off before the end (on desktop it’s even better as the images are bigger).
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1 week ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Eleanor Cording-Booth
Decorator Joshua Hale's Oxfordshire cottageDean HearnePicture the scene; a traditional roll-arm sofa sits alongside a Seventies lucite coffee table, a Dutch seagrass chair, minimalist white Vitsoe shelving, a frothy paper geranium, some Ghanaian indigo cloth, books on classic English decorating, a modern Fermoie cushion (just for good measure) and mid-century Italian brass. Various mismatching vases and candlesticks complete the melee.
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4 weeks ago | 
eleanorcordingbooth.substack.com | Eleanor Cording-Booth
Hi hello! I keep attempting to write postcard-sized emails, brief enough to read while the kettle boils. Personally, I love a bite-sized newsletter – an amuse-bouche while I wait for the tube – but brevity was never my strong suit. This isn’t a Substack-specific affliction. If someone asks how my journey was, I can take 10 minutes to answer, including a reenactment.
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1 month ago | 
eleanorcordingbooth.substack.com | Eleanor Cording-Booth
That was embarrassing. I disappeared into hiding like a guilty dog who ate the birthday cake. This started because I wrote three draft posts back in Feb and then didn’t share any of them as I thought the subjects seemed too varied and erratic when everyone else on here seems (to me) so polished and sharply focused on their specialist subject.
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2 months ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Eleanor Cording-Booth
A light-filled mews house in Kensington - perfect for downsizers. Paul MasseyThe city-versus-country debate is a tale as old as time, and that’s roughly how long this writer has deliberated whether to stay in a tiny flat in London’s Barbican Estate or move somewhere more rural for a chance of verdant views, better air quality and affordable rent.
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2 months ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Eleanor Cording-Booth
Love it or loathe it, Instagram is one of the most accessible sources of interior inspiration. There’s a solution to almost every design conundrum, readily available in the palm of your hand. Wondering what a new shade of white paint looks like in a north-facing room? Someone has probably paved the way for you. Contemplating making your own skirt for the bathroom sink? Oodles of other accounts will have made one already (and recorded a step-by-step guide).
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2 months ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Eleanor Cording-Booth
On the sliding scale of ultra-restrained John Pawson farmhouse to Nicky Haslam’s chintz-covered columns, where would you put yourself? Most of us – including this writer – would likely sit somewhere in the middle. So, if we’re open to the idea of a stainless steel kitchen but not averse to blood-red joinery, does that make us middlemalists? If our design preferences sit halfway between the two opposing philosophies of minimalism and maximalism, does that leave space for a third, middling option?
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2 months ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Eleanor Cording-Booth
Little Greene’s ‘Citrine’ traditional oil gloss on the built-in wardrobes bounces light around in interior designer Lonika Chande's west London homePaul MasseyDo you know your matt from your dead flat? Which paint to buy for lime plaster? With a mind-boggling number of options to choose from and a rebellion against the uptight decorating rules of old, it might be quicker to solve a Rubik’s Cube than to figure out which paint finish to buy.
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Feb 16, 2025 | 
eleanorcordingbooth.substack.com | Eleanor Cording-Booth
Hi hello! I’m writing to you from the coast in Cornwall, where we’ve been for two weeks. When we get back to London, I’ll write a big post with all the details of where we stayed, where else I’d love to stay, where we ate (like most trips, this has revolved around where we’re having lunch) and where we didn’t have chance to eat. We’re currently in our fourth holiday home and I’m in no rush to leave this detached house with its views for miles.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle |Gabriella Gofis |Eleanor Cording-Booth |Rachel Karten
Welcome to February’s Specials, a list of things I’ve been collecting all month to share with you. A HOUSE I WISH WAS MINEI’ve always loved the Craftsman-style homes Pasadena is known for, but after the Eaton Fire tore through so many of them just up the street in Altadena, I have a renewed appreciation for how special the architecture is in this corner of LA. A perfect example: this history 1913 home recently redesigned by Jamie Haller.
