About
Ciao, I’m the magpie.
Magpies are collectors. They never build a brand-new nest: they gather what is lying about, a ribbon here, a button there, and somehow it all becomes home.
I am rather the same. For fifteen years, six of them in Tuscany, I have been giving old things a second life: a faded armchair, a length of old linen, a lampshade nobody loved.
That is what I hope to do in your home.
Gather what is already there, and help you see it again.
Services
Begin with a free first visit, or an online meeting.
A kitchen in the Val d’Orcia
Keep the table. Change the story.
A plain wooden table, a skirt in a faded floral, and suddenly it is a buffet for Sunday lunch.
By hand, for every corner
Curtains & blinds
Lined or unlined · Roman blinds · Pelmets · Café curtains
Headboards & beds
Upholstered headboards · Bed skirts · Canopies
Cushions & seat pads
Seat pads · Box cushions · Footstools re-covered
Table skirts
Table skirts · Shelf curtains · Tablecloths
Lampshades & lamps
Bespoke lampshades · Lamps found and restored
Interior styling
Paint colours · Second-hand finds · Flowers
Quilts & throws
Patchwork quilts · Decorative bedspreads · Throws
Play corners
A play corner in the living room · Tents & hideaways
A little magic for them. A lot of sense for you.
What I make for little rooms
A home for the toys
Pretty on the outside, practical behind the curtain.
A place to play & hide
A tent, a hideaway, a ladder: part of the room.
Practical for parents
Natural & washable: cotton and linen, covers that come off.
Home staging
Ready for your arrival
Moving in, or welcoming guests? We plan it on a video call, I work in the house while you are away, and it is ready and waiting when you, or your guests, arrive.
Festive dressing
For the days that deserve a little more
Christmas, Easter, a birthday, a wedding under the olive trees. I will dress your home or your celebration: a table, a doorway, a window.
- · Wildflower arrangements & wedding flowers, gathered that morning
- · A wreath for the front door
- · Paper decorations from Polish folk tradition
- · Table styling for weddings & feasts
Contact
Shall we have a coffee?
The first visit is free. Tell me a little about your home, and I’ll come and see it. I work across Tuscany, and further afield online.
Before we meet
A few things that help
- What your home is missing: a corner to curl up with a book, a table where everyone fits, somewhere for the toys to vanish by evening, a hallway that swallows the everyday chaos
- A few photos of the room, in daylight
- What you love, and what you cannot stand
- Who uses the room
