5 Things You Didn't Know About: The House Directory

If you're planning to redesign or redecorate a room in your home, The House Directory should be on your favourites list. It is an essential resource for interior and garden design, listing quality retailers, suppliers and providers.

1) The House Directory started life... in the days before the internet as a design and decoration telephone information service called Design Line.

2) When the online directory launched in 2001... lots of member companies  didn't yet have websites. It seems very odd now, but you had to call them up for a catalogue if you wanted to see their products. 

3) The free Ask the Experts sourcing service is very popular...  with questions on all sorts of things. How to find a specialist to re-gild a mirror? Who can supply a Thunderbox WC? 

4) The most frequent question is... "where can I find 'fake book' or 'trompe l'oeil' bookcase wallpaper? "

5) You may not know yet, but... The House Directory's new offspring is The House Mag. It includes a design blog and an inspiring regular Behind the Design feature with clever design ideas and how to achieve them.

23 November 2011