Sew Over it! Take a sneaky peek at our favourite craft café
When mydeco heard about the new (and unique!) crafts café in London where you can sew while you sip, we had to check it out. Offering a huge range of fab sewing and customisation classes, from Mad Men dress making to buttoned cushions, Sew Over It caters for both novices and the more experienced sewer.... Read more...
Secret snoop: a sneaky slice from The Cream Tea Café
Tucked away in Church Lane right at the heart of Barnstaple, north Devon, Lucy Duncan and co-owner and partner Richy Dingwall are making waves with their new tea shop The Cream Tea Café. What used to be a dolls house shop has now been totally transformed by the pair into a cozy café, with an... Read more...
Before and after: the Two Continents House
Welcome, to this bi-continental home where Africa meets Asia after a £250,000 renovation. This unique property in Hammersmith, London, was entirely gutted from a derelict disaster into a contemporary canvas for Ugandan Asian family of four. The four storey residential house was modernised on an extremely small construction budget by Hogarth Architects and the Shah... Read more...
Secret Snoop: a before and after look at the De la Beche Manor
The architectural company VoonWong&BensonSaw (VW+BS) have transformed this family of eight’s house into a traditional meets modern masterpiece. The estate of the De la Beche Manor, in Berkshire, originally dates back to the Doomsday book and has been completely gutted, having a contemporary makeover and a glass extension built. Need help refurbishing your own... Read more...
Secret Snoop: A look into designer Poppy Treffry’s creative studio
Poppy Treffry is a designer who has hand stitched her designs on to tea cosies, cushions and bags. mydeco takes a secret snoop around her studio and shop to reveal her fantastic workspace. The studio is the heart of her business and its location is the primary inspiration for her designs. Set in the Cornish... Read more...
Through the keyhole with guest blogger Jenny Leary
After Puff&Flock won mydeco’s first ever Design Democracy Blog Awards in October (below, second left), across the pond in snowy Britain, they’ve stayed on our radar ever since. Image credit: mydeco.com And as of January, Jenny Leary, magnetic materials designer at Puff&Flock and founder of Ferrofabric, will be guest blogging for mydeco. She will be... Read more...
Keep your eyes on… interior designer Heather Jenkinson
Are you a graduate designer in need of business advice? Do you want some expert colour tips? Or are you looking for an interior designer who won’t use your house as a canvas for their own [questionable] sense of style? Well, you can stop looking because you’ve reached the right place. Interior designer and colour... Read more...
Through the keyhole: Thomas Jayne
Image credit: The Monacelli Press Designer Thomas Jayne’s new book, The Finest Rooms in America, takes the reader on a visual tour of some of the country’s signature rooms in a myriad of divergent styles and states of grandeur. It’s a vibrant expression of just how eclectic America’s interiors are. Jayne’s own Soho apartment, which... Read more...
Take a sneak peak around Marrakech’s boutique hotels with Hg2
We’ve teamed up with luxury city guide publisher Hg2 to show you the stunning interiors of Marrakech’s most stylish hotels. Moroccan-style décor first became fashionable in the mid-nineteenth century and ever since it has been synonymous with elegance, luxury and exotic mystery. Hg2′s Katy Foster presents the most jaw-dropping interiors from the city, and gives... Read more...
Through the keyhole: Mariano Fortuny’s flourishing legacy
Image credit: Mieke ten Have Last Tuesday night, I popped by the new Fortuny showroom opening at the D & D building. The famed fabric line has gone through somewhat of a renaissance over the past several years, shaking off its more conservative reputation. This revitalization is fitting, too, as Mariano Fortuny was anything but... Read more...
Through the keyhole: Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse
Image credit: Mieke ten Have The Kips Bay Decorator Show House is a beneficent rite of passage for many decorators, particularly of the New York variety. I just came from its 38th annual incarnation, and as with each year, there was some good, some great, and some… not to my taste. I walked up the... Read more...
Through the Keyhole: Elizabeth Blitzer
Image credit: Mieke ten Have Elizabeth Blitzer’s West Village apartment is a case study in living with what you love, no matter how eclectic your taste range. Blitzer, who has been representing the interior design community for a decade, has naturally accrued a great collection of furniture, lighting and objets from designers like Larson Juhl... Read more...
