How two coastal landscapes shaped my love of gardening
A meditation on memory. Gardening as remembrance. How places and plants can have echoes as well as leaves and roots in the past.
I am thinking of the Danish summerhouse now, and my Devon childhood. How the two gardens in many ways mirror each other, but also of their essential difference.
Continue reading...Vibrant hues bring a former silk factory back to life
It is a rare feat to feel genuinely welcomed into someone’s home over the phone, let alone by two people you’ve never met. Yet the Covid-19 lockdown made a planned trip to the home of Italian furniture designer Dalila Formentini and her Irish artist husband Sean Shanahan in Lecco, near Lake Como in northern Italy, an illegal passage.
So instead, we found ourselves on a WhatsApp call earlier this summer. Fortunately their conversation is as vibrant as the colour palette that defines the former silk factory they call home. “We started it and just did it – there has never been a second of doubt,” says Sean. From the pop-pink floors and wallpaper he handpainted in the hall to the jungle-green chimney breast and the unapologetically all-white summer dining room, their home evokes a sense of joy.
Continue reading...Vibrant hues bring a former silk factory back to life
It is a rare feat to feel genuinely welcomed into someone’s home over the phone, let alone by two people you’ve never met. Yet the Covid-19 lockdown made a planned trip to the home of Italian furniture designer Dalila Formentini and her Irish artist husband Sean Shanahan in Lecco, near Lake Como in northern Italy, an illegal passage.
So instead, we found ourselves on a WhatsApp call earlier this summer. Fortunately their conversation is as vibrant as the colour palette that defines the former silk factory they call home. “We started it and just did it – there has never been a second of doubt,” says Sean. From the pop-pink floors and wallpaper he handpainted in the hall to the jungle-green chimney breast and the unapologetically all-white summer dining room, their home evokes a sense of joy.
Continue reading...It’s everyone’s worst nightmare – you enter your home to discover someone has broken in and stolen your most treasured possessions. It’s a horrible feeling that no one should have to go through. It is also important to remember that there is no guarantee in stopping a burglar and therefore having insurance is critical. Burglars […]
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Flat owners in Manchester block say they face bankruptcy unless government steps in
Leaseholders in a “tinderbox” apartment block in Manchester have been billed up to £115,000 each to remove unsafe cladding in what is believed to be the biggest charge facing residents since the Grenfell disaster.
Owners of flats in Connect House, in the city’s trendy Ancoats district, said they face financial ruin over the £5.2m cost to make the property safe and have called on the government to intervene.
Continue reading...The pretty red doors of this cottage jump out at you in its forest setting and the property’s potential is equally eye-catching. Old Faskally Cottage is a two-bedroom C-Listed property in an enviable rural position in the village of Killiecrankie near the town of Pitlochry in Perthshire. The property is for sale with a guide […]
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