Balancing creativity with an eye for detail, Lonika Chande believes your home should be a place of sanctuary and comfort, as well as a reflection of your personality. Having studied Architectural Interior Design at The Inchbald School of Design before embarking on a career with two leading London based interior design firms, Lonika now runs her own studio in West London. Here, she shows us round the Queen’s Park home she shares with her husband, Theo, two-year-old son, Sasha and baby girl, Riva.
“Surround yourself with what you love, so that your house has soul. Collect, don’t decorate.” – Christy Ford Houses are one of my love languages. And while I love a beautifully decorated house as well as the next person, my favorite houses are those with a lot of soul. Houses that give you a sense...
Moving from a tall town house to a west-London mews enabled interior designer Caroline Riddell to enjoy a more open-plan way of living
This house is more of a cottage – with tiny rooms and a wonderful, diminutive scale – in a fabulous terrace of listed early Georgian houses on the edge of Highgate, then just a small country village now consumed into London. Our clients are a young family who had lived in the house for a […]
It’s week 4 of Home Glow’s Saturday Blog — the Thursday ORC edition. Quick recap — I’m turning a 19th century blacksmith shop into a studio for Home Glow Design. I call it my Ultimate She-Shed, because, after nearly 8 years as a stay-at-home parent to boys, getting back into the professional world is a happy, … ORC Week 4: Wall-to-Wall Seagrass Carpet 101 Read More »
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Jasper Conran's way with hospitality makes for an elegant riad - welcome to L' Hotel Marrakech