I am so, so far behind with this whole blogging business. Everything has changed and is changing, and my only strategy has been to try and find out how while pottering about this place doing nothing about it. I don’t even keep up with Old Style Blogging, never mind the New Blogoverse. However, this blog is not designed for a big readership, or to sell anything, or to be plastered with ads for cellphones or customised t-shirts. It’s almost not designed for any readership at all. I just write my mundane stuff here and if anyone wants me, they can find me. That’s it. Nice and quiet. For now, anyway.

Today, I am very jealous of Tatanya, who has been going round so many interesting places in New York I can hardly bear to read about them due to the jealousy. She is guest blogging about it at this place (found via 2Blowhards). I love seeing inside other people’s houses the fascinating discipline of interior design. One of the things I want to do when I grow up is design the insides of homes, because it is unbelievable what unpleasant surroundings people force themselves to live in, and I don’t think they realise what a negative impact constant relentless ugliness has on their mental wellbeing. My design approach is to get nice things that can go anywhere, put them together and avoid the “colour scheme” ethos, which is terrible because a) it is completely wrong that if everything in a room is blue it will look nice, the opposite is true, and b) good quality colours always go together, within two or three very broad outlines: colour quality is more important than what the colour actually is. I think Martha Stewart is crazy because she is obssessed with having everything the same colour (grey), and the best style is always about good things and never about painting cheap (bad) things (lots of good things are inexpensive, but cheap means bad).

Anyway, hi Tatanya if you are reading this, and I am adding going to the next Open House New York to my list of things to do before I die, or even better before I get to 40.