White Door Brocante at West Green House gardens 23 April 2026

After what has seemed like one of the wettest, light-deprived winters on record, the next White Door Brocante at West Green House gardens on Thursday 23rd April 2026 in North Hampshire promises once again to weave its Spring magic. I am looking forward to seeing a fresh crop of expertly curated vintage and antiques against the backdrop of an English manor house garden.

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Oxfam superstore

Take the formula of an out of town supermarket, add a few ingredients from IKEA, the precise display skills of a west London prop house and finally a sprinkling of sports store Decathlon to discover the recipe behind Oxfam’s new superstore design. The blog takes a tour of this new sustainable and charitable department store concept to find out what might make us all want to shop there.

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Styling Downton Abbey film sets for The English Home magazine

In our house, it’s written in stone that Sunday nights are spent watching the latest period drama or film. When The English Home magazine asked if I would like to recreate three rooms from Downton Abbey to coincide with the forthcoming feature film, you could say it was a bit of an open and shut case – albeit of the vintage prop variety. 

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