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1 day ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark
Translucent green roller blinds make for a simple window dressing at Virginia White's flat off Hampstead HeathChristopher HorwoodWe've probably all had some kind of unsatisfactory roller blinds in our lives, if we think back over the places we've inhabited. Student rooms, offices and rented houses tend to be rife with the cheap vinyl ‘moisture-resistant’ variety, and this has given the whole style a bad name.
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2 days ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark
Windowless bathroom ideas: this tiny space off the hallway in Rita Konig's London house is now a powder room, its walls lined with Antoinette Poisson’s ‘Torrent - PP Rouleau'. Rita even had the ventilation fan papered – ‘I had a brilliant wallpaperer and you can barely spot it now,’ she explains.
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3 days ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark
A view from one of the paths around the house, with the newly constructed pool house in the foreground. Paul Massey“I had a few criteria when I started looking for a house in France,” says Adrian Holmes. “I wanted a château, it would need a lot of work doing to it, and it would be in the hills or mountains with a lake or a river on hand.” In all of these requirements, he succeeded, but in none more fully than the second – perhaps even beyond his own expectations.
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6 days ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark
Alidad has used a large-scale hand-painted pattern on the walls in his London flat, along with a large painting that fills a lot of the space behind the sofa. Simon BrownA quick glance through our dos and don'ts of decorating, in which interior designers offer their principles for good decorating, reveals a few common threads that it seems everyone can agree on. A strong distaste for too much overhead lighting, for one, and an equally firm veto on blindly following trends.
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6 days ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark
An armchair in Anni Albers' 'E' green linen from Christopher Farr Cloth is opposite a 'Temple House' sofa and ‘Tray Top’ table, both from Virginia White Collection. Rose de Borman and Soie de Lune cushions and Seth Cardew bowls add unusual touches. Christopher Horwood'The Edwardians were phenomenal builders,' says the designer Virginia White, surveying the spacious main room of her own flat on the edge of Hampstead Heath.
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1 week ago | 
taosnews.com | Virginia Clark
It's a no-go for the proposed final version of Taos County’s Comprehensive Plan, at least for the time being, as was decided by the Taos County Commission at their regular meeting Tuesday (April 15). The plan, prepared by Consensus Planning of Albuquerque, updates the county's current version developed in 2017. The comprehensive plan does not include policy prescriptions, but rather is a guiding document for development.
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2 weeks ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark
In Benni Frowein's London apartment, he has made bold use of black and white geometric fabrics, including this brilliant blind in Schumacher's ‘Maxwell’ cotton. We love how it stands out against the white walls and also forms a contrast with the floral wall hanging over the bath. Michael SinclairWhile there's no strict formula for how to combine patterns in a room, it is one of the questions we find ourselves asking interior designers most frequently.
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2 weeks ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark
The magic of a well-preserved historic house will not be lost on many House & Garden readers – we can all understand the appeal of the beautiful proportions of a Georgian townhouse, or the charm of a wonky 17th-century farmhouse. Such houses come with a story and a character all their own, and visual interest baked into the architecture, which comes through whatever decoration you superimpose on them. The boxier shapes and blank canvas rooms of a newbuild, however, can feel soulless by comparison.
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2 weeks ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark
The characterful Sussex cottage of knitwear designer Anna Phillips makes excellent use of tongue and groove panelling throughout. Dean HearneWe at House & Garden have long been advocates of the transformative power of panelling – it can add so much visual interest to a blank expanse of wall, give a sense of a particular period, and provide a helpful way of differentiating spaces.
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2 weeks ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Virginia Clark
The colours of Mirko Baricchi’s painting Oltre #3 are echoed by walls in Atelier Ellis’s ‘Tea & Toast’, Pinch’s ‘Brody’ wing-back chair, a custom ottoman and a sofa in Pierre Frey linen with Houlès piping and Penny Worrall cushions. They are set on a Rose Uniacke hemp rug. Muller Van Severen wall lights and an Italian brass table from Lorfords introduce warm metallic accents. Boz Gagovski'Start with the art' is a useful maxim in more ways than one.
