Cold war

I get that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. I have read John Gray, understood that a Hubby needs his man cave time, and pushed away thoughts of joining a lesbian commune. But should men and women live in different climate zones? Come the bleak midwinter (well, relatively speaking, because we’re never talking [...]

And the winner is…

Beautiful as they are, these are really ’before’ shots. Because I’m betting that come January 1st this place will look a lot different. This is the new pad of University of Central Florida senior Adam Venckauskas. He won it in an HGTV giveaway: a fully furnished apartment in New York’s financial district, designed by interior designer Vern Yip, [...]

Art tart

I’m in love with a roller girl. A fallen roller girl. Not as in “I lost my balance”, but as in “I’ve done something very bad and now you must leave me alone to drown my sorrows”. Here she is, in all her tragic, pop art glory: I fell for her last weekend, parted with [...]

Girls’ afternoon in

It’s hard not to love this gig. No, not the laborious DIY journey, silly, but the homes and interiors writing thing. Saturday afternoon saw me sitting at a table strewn with ribbon, fake leaves and glue guns. There was also champagne and five other women who were a hoot. (Note to my ed, if she [...]

Black and white and smudged all over

  Behold! A new bathroom door. Well, not new, but it’s had a bit of a facelift, courtesy of Michaels, the craft store I dare not go in lest I while away three whole hours. We’d bought the panelled door at Gerson’s, Tucson’s fabbo salvage yard, sometime last year. I re-painted it and we hung [...]