I’m really glad that the tortoiseshell trade has been banned but I still can’t help but love anything tortoiseshell – antique or new!
These folding Chinese screens represent everything I love about the exotic East.
For an other-wordly kitchen, think stone, slate, copper, tin, cast iron, baskets, pine, plants, flowers and clutter!
I love lanterns and fairy lights. They can turn any room or any outdoor space into something magical.
Bathrooms don’t have to be sterile and sleek – add plants, lamps, chandeliers, curtains, pictures, wallpaper, colour, books and rugs.
Each impressionistic little scene tells a story all its own.
A lot of people bag the hippies – the originals and the new wannabes – they call them ‘tree-huggers’ and ‘bleeding hearts’, but at least they give a damn. I say, good on them, let them be different and let there always be hippies!
I love these dreamy bohemian portals – wild flowers, rambling vines, stone archways and weathered paintwork.
I love peacock feathers. I have vases of them in every room in my house even though some people say they’re bad luck. I prefer to go with nicer meanings. Hindus say they represent kindness, patience and good fortune. The ancient Greeks thought the ‘eyes’ symbolize all-seeing knowledge while Buddhists associate peacock feathers with openness, since the birds display everything when they spread their tails.
And anyway, they’re beautiful … so who cares!
