5 Of The Best Freestanding Baths
My round-up of the five best freestanding bathtubs available to buy…
Read MoreHow To Use Blue At Home: The Best Blue Interior Decor Ideas
As Benjamin Moore announces ‘Aegean Teal’, a stunning green-blue, as their Colour Of The Year for 2021, I take a look at some the best inspirational blue interiors around…
Read MoreThe Best New Interior Buys For Autumn
I check out the best new interior buys released and now available for AW20…
Read MorePutting Texture into Textiles: The Stunning New Fabric Collection By Kirkby Design
Check out the wonderful new textured collection of fabrics from the innovative interiors brand Kirkby Design…
Read MoreFinding The Perfect Warm Neutral With Elle Decoration By Crown Paints
[Paid partnership with Crown Paints] Selecting a neutral paint colour is a lot harder than choosing any other shade of paint. It is quite easy to distinguish between heavily pigmented colours, but with neutral tones, you have to work out what the base colour is for each shade….
Read MoreWhere To Buy On-Trend Dried Flowers
Small posies of dried flowers have become a popular micro-trend within home and interior styling. Within this post you’ll find my top source list for the best dried flowers available to buy in the UK..
Read MoreThe Best Pink Paint Colours To Decorate With At Home
Even though pink as an interior trend has been doing the rounds for a good few years now, the popularity and desire for it to feature in our home decor is just is not waning. Pink as a paint colour is still an extremely attractive choice for many, as the shade has shaken off its ‘feminine’ label and is seen as contemporary and fun..
Read More5 Stylish Dining Chairs For Under £150
The wonderful thing about dining chairs is that they can be multi-functional and placed in various locations throughout the home, rather than just used for ‘dining’..
Read More5 Simple Ideas To Create A Productive Workspace
Whether your current workstation is a desk in the spare room or a laptop on the kitchen table, the key to creating a productive workspace is designing an area where you actually want to sit and work..
Read MoreBedroom Design, Decor Ideas and Inspiration For A Master Bedroom Revamp
I’ve been working on a total overhaul of our master bedroom for a number of weeks now, so today on the blog I thought I would share some of the decor ideas which led to the design of the new room scheme and how I use Pinterest to collect inspiration…
Read MoreWorking From Home: 5 Compact Desk Designs For Small Spaces
COVID-19 has led to a large proportion of the UK workforce now working from home. If you did not regularly work from home before the outbreak, you might be finding it hard to concentrate sitting at the kitchen table being distracted by the fridge, or sat squashed up on the sofa in front of the TV….
Read MoreNew Wallpaper Designs For 2020
Last week I focused on if you can use wallpaper in a bathroom. This week, I thought it would be good to take a look at the new wallpaper designs that have been released so far for 2020….
Read MoreInterior Wall Art Trends For 2020
The start of a New Year can always stir up a desire to change up your home and give it a slight refresh. While new furniture is expensive, you may not have the time nor the inclination to repaint your walls. So, just how do you give the rooms in your home a whole new, on-trend look and mix it all up a bit? Quite simply, the quickest and most effective way to switch up your home decor is to add in new framed prints, posters and art, which will completely revamp any space.
Read More5 Of The Best New Table And Desk Lamps
As the January sales come to an end, over the next few weeks we will see the release of new products from the spring/summer collections for 2020. This week I’ve decided to focus on the best new table and desk lamps becoming available to purchase.
Read MoreDesigning A Calm And Serene Bedroom
A few years ago when maximalism was the big interior trend, I papered all the walls of our master bedroom in a heavily-patterned, floral blue wallpaper. To accompany it, I painted everything else in the room a deep blue to match. While I loved this look for a while (and I still love the wallpaper design), I quickly yearned for a much more calming space to wind down, read, sleep and get dressed in. The room gets a lot of light with two windows in it, yet the deep shade of blue sucked that beautiful morning light away. The jazzy wallpaper pattern didn’t feel soothing or resting and didn’t provide the blank canvas required when choosing what to wear for the day (all the colour and pattern of my clothes intermixed with the wallpaper and the blue, making everything clash).
Read More5 Simple Tips To Make A Room Feel Bigger
The decline in square footage for both rental and owned properties has been steadily consistent for a long time as we grow as a population and urban, city living draws new residents every year. As the spaces we inhabit generally become smaller, we need to be clever choosing the right furniture and decor so that our rooms, although modest, feel as large as they can possibly look. Below I’ve listed my five favourite tried and tested tips for keeping a room feeling spacious, all though carefully considering the interior decor..
Read MoreLust List: New Furniture and Homeware Items That I'm Obsessed With
As the summer months wind down and we move into the new season, new bits and pieces from the AW19 home collections have started to pop-up in-store and online and boy, there are some gorgeous things out there to purchase right now. All the items listed below are currently on my personal ‘lust list’. Some I know I’ll cave in and purchase, others I have no space/need for but would snap them up in a heartbeat if I did!
Read MoreMADE x Natural History Museum Collaborate To Create Print Collection
This week MADE.com announced it was launching a collection of 8 prints in collaboration with the Natural History Museum. It’s something very different, a little bit vintage (some of these drawings have sat in the Museum’s archive for decades) and felt quite special, so I wanted to share it with you on the blog today.
Read More10 Of The Best Shelf Brackets
I’ve recently decided to swap around some furniture in my home, which has led to some space becoming available for decorative shelving in an alcove. I have shelves made from marble off-cuts in my bathroom and I love them, so I decided to go down the DYO (Design Your Own) route again and have more marble shelving made (I just amble on down to my local stone yard, flick through their worktop off-cuts and choose a couple of pieces which they cut and polish up for me for a small fee). Marble shelves are definitely a show-stopper, so they need the brackets to not let them down in the style-stakes. I’ve been hunting high and low for the best shelf brackets for sale in the UK the past week for these shelves, so here are my top ten picks!
Read MoreA Stylish Summer Picnic with Grand Illusions
[AD] This post is part of a current working relationship with Grand Illusions. A styling, images, thoughts and opinions are my own.
We are over halfway through the year and summer is in full swing. What I have really enjoyed this year is packing up a picnic basket and putting it in the boot of the car, collecting my son after school and driving with the dog to local, scenic picnic spots to enjoy the warm, late summer afternoons outside together. I have been working with home and garden retailer Grand Illusions for the past few months and I was really excited when I saw their summer collection which includes hand-blown recycled green glass tumblers, on-trend bamboo tealight holders and earthy bowls with detailed floral patterns. All these pieces are perfect to use for stylish summer picnics or casual summer dining, so I snapped a few bits up to share with you here on the blog.
The Celeste design has a casual blue floral pattern on a white background, while the Florido bowls are a deep, inky blue base with a white floral pattern. Even though they look like they cannot go in the dishwasher, they are all dishwasher safe (as washing up is the last thing you want to be doing on a warm summers day!)
The woven shopping bag below is not a new product, in fact, I’ve owned this from Grand Illusions for a while, but I’ve been using it all summer. It’s completely lightweight, but the boned structure of it means that it better supports picnic items than a tote bag. I chose this Paris shopper in yellow because I’m all about colour, but you can also get it in beige and black.
