House and Garden

Georgina Montagu’s heavenly book on dogs and interiors, Top Dogs, recounts the story of the canine companion who chewed a hole in a pink stair carpet that had taken four attempts to get right, and we’ve all dealt with cricket balls through windows, spilt milk, drawing on walls, and much more besides. But, as the great Nina Campbell so wisely says, “a house is for living in. You can’t lose sight of that.”