Abigail Ahern's Blog

Fabulous press and some yabbering

Crazy weekend where we woke at 5 and didn’t stop until 7 and probably sat down all of 30mintues both days. Have we finished? Nope,  but we’ve turned a corner, I’ve had to eliminate a few things  ...

Get Your House in Order

Big big big day today, the television programme I have been working on, Get Your House in Order airs tonight 8pm Channel 4. Each week Nick Allen (my co-presenter and I) go into people’s homes whose...

Style on a shoestring

Wow guys thank you for all your amazing amazing comments yesterday now I feel totally inspired and really do want to launch a magazine! There’s just a few slight hiccups i.e financing and time but ...

How to make festive cool

Easy peasy you just need to get along to one of my masterclasses. All dates fully booked with waiting lists apart from Friday 2 December where there are a few spaces left. Some of the things we wil...

Placing furniture

When we were little my sister and I used to both take a room in my parents house (the dining and living room) and pretend to be housewives. I was Anthea, Gem was Sandra (who knows where those names...

My Christmas masterclass now open for bookings

It’s an exciting day today, although there are lots of complaints from hubby and Fraudie about getting up at 3am!  We are off now  to Lancashire, a four hour treak out of London to go and intro...

Giving bathrooms the star treatment

Often times I find that bathrooms tend to get rather neglected. Alot gets spent on the big  ticket purchases bath/sink/taps etc but then they  kind of get overlooked. Yet I kind of want my bathro...

Decorating with colour

So so late this morning far to many episodes last night of The Killing made all three of us oversleep and wham bam its 9am and I’ve only just started the day. Fine tuning my seminar for next week i...

Talking sofas

Today I am feeling a little sorry for myself – its the start of a detox plan that the medical profession seem to think I need to undertake so no dairy and a few weeks later no wheat no alcohol. Yik...

Making tiny cleaver

More and more of us live in small spaces, especially if we happen to dwell in a city –think Paris and NY in particular. In London too, I happen to live in a four story townhouse being Victorian r...