If you have a free few hours, the Summer Exhibition is on at the Royal Academy until 20th August.  It has been running for nearly 250 years (next year) and was started to help finance the training of young artists in the Royal Academy Schools. It is the largest open submission exhibition in the world and never […]

We recently had the chance to answer readers questions in the Metro – always fun for us to share our thoughts and ideas and exciting to be asked! One of the questions also reminded us that starting the design and decoration of a room is often the hardest part – deciding what colours you want to […]

I trekked my family over to the Barbican to see The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 – always a tall ask when my children’s first choice over half term would be the Science Museum or when I am particularly persuasive, the V&A. But bribed with food and lots of ‘this will be so […]