Homes and decorating magazines are the latest victims of the credit crunch. Circulation figures for Living etc, 25 Beautiful Homes and my personal favourite, the musty-bookshelved, gilt-gessoed World of Interiors, are all heading unceremoniously down the CP Hart marble-and-bronze toilet.
This is no doubt due to the fact that a lot of people are sick of looking at rich people’s wetrooms, and are yearning for a more innocent, less rapaciously capitalistic time, when a house was a house, wallpaper was woodchip, and an Arco lamp was something a welder used to …