Category: Selling & Retail

I’ve tweaked the cover typography on The Heart of the Home. Saw some extra sales before Christmas. If you’ve bought…

So in the end, Homebase wasn’t able to recover from the most ill-conceived retail takeover in recent history. Before all…

I mention in The Heart of the Home that I’m not the first to call the kitchen “the heart of…

In The Heart of the Home, I write about selling and buying kitchens as well as about designing them. I…

Because I spent so long, on and off, writing The Heart of the Home, I had to keep deciding whether to…

Half the job of writing is editing. In pass after pass, I removed one anecdote after another from The Heart of…

I’ve never made it a secret that there are practices in our market sector with which I’m not going to…

I never imagined that The Heart of the Home would sell millions, even before publishers told me it wouldn’t. Once you self-publish,…

I’ve hinted that The Heart of the Home went through a lot of rewriting. Some was to do with fact – adding…

It took me close to fifteen years, on and off, to write The Heart of the Home. It took me weeks…