Hothouse - launches live on Facebook next week (correction)

Hello 👋 This week's blog is a little different. It’s quite personal - about moving house, about a childhood home I've never quite stopped missing, and (as I make a wishlist for my next home) about lessons learned from past experiences of ‘home’, and from thirty years of thinking about interior space. It all boils down to the difference between performance and substance. I wasn't entirely sure a...

Hello 👋 and happy Fathers' Day to a tiny, but most welcome, minority of my readership. This week a designer told me about an enquiry that arrived sounding exactly like a brief from an expert. It was only when the conversation moved to the phone that she discovered the client was a complete novice who had used AI as an intermediary. The AI-confected gap between appearances and reality is the sub...

Hello 👋 When I was studying for my PG Cert, one of the most transferrable concepts I learned was about the shape of a ten-week term. In psychological terms, ten weeks is too long. Without deliberate intervention, morale follows a predictable arc: high at the start, eroding through the middle, recovering only as the end comes into view. Teacher training taught me to subdivide: 10 weeks should be...