Baking rye bread is part of my weekly routine and my family would complain bitterly if there wasn’t to be a steady supply of my Danish loaf. It needs a bit of planning to get started but it really isn’t difficult. The below recipe is for one loaf I usually bake four loaves so simply times the recipe by four. For the poolish (the sloppy dough you start with on day one) 75g rye sourdough starter (if you haven’t got any…
Yesterday was the start of the epic and always inspirational London Design Festival. My first stop was Skandium’s townhouse in the Brompton Design District. The theme of the district is “material consequences” and in…
I will be honest here and say that I’ve always suffered from balcony envy. I have a perfectly lovely garden in North London but somehow I still get an ache whenever I come across…
I am excited to show you a bathroom project that I recently completed in North London. The first project was a family bathroom that had clearly seen better days. As the family’s children had…
London Design Festival is a very hectic time in the design calendar and it was therefore lovely to spend time with fellow bloggers in the lovely tranquil STILL restaurant. The pop-up restaurant was created by By…
I have just recently come across the Danish design brand Munk. Needless to say, it was love at first sight. Munk was founded in 2012 by Hans Peter Munk and was initially a small…
Freja Christensen is the talented artist behind the Danish poster brand By Frema. For Freja, it’s all about creating timeless prints by focusing on high-quality images and sense of story. Nature is essential to…
It’s November and it’s raining – again! That makes it hard, if not near impossible to get out from under House Babylon’s “Excellence Collection” bedsheets. The bedding is designed in London, the cotton is…
Drumroll… Here they all are! The full cast from Mrs Mighetto’s latest poster collection. The lake is where the dragons were born. Their rare eggs are hidden on the lakebed until one of the…
I love coming across Danish brands with an interesting story to tell. And Lillerød is just the perfect example of a such a brand. Lillerød was first established in 1890 when the Johansson family emigrated from the south of…