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1 week 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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Eleanor Cording-Booth
Simon UptonUnless you’ve been living under a rock – a grey one – you would have struggled to miss the steady emergence of brown as the colour du jour. It’s been gathering momentum for a year or two now but this writer (an out-and-proud lover of every hue from butterscotch to bitter chocolate) would argue that it never went away.
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2 months ago | 
thevenetianpantry.substack.com | Eleanor Cording-Booth
To celebrate our first year together, I am offering a one-off whopping 25% discount on annual memberships, so you can get your subscription at £37.50 instead of £50 forever (or until you unsubscribe). The offer is valid for a week only, until the 17th of October. I started this newsletter mainly because I wanted to get in the habit of writing more often. It is something I have always loved to do, something that used to come really easy to me.
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2 months ago | 
eleanorcordingbooth.substack.com | Eleanor Cording-Booth
Hello! I started writing this post from my bed at Capelongue hotel in Bonnieux and I hoped to finish it on a tense 9:30pm flight to Heathrow, while the guy in front repeatedly tried to force his already-reclined seat further into my knees. As is tradition, I actually finished it from my sofa last night at 2:30am. The flight was tense because of turbulence at take-off (I’m scared of flying) and also tense because my boyfriend unintentionally camouflaged my laptop somewhere within our rental car.
