Category: Celebrate interiors
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Decorating in monchrome
Looking around our home, it is evident that we have a real love of monochrome decor! Whilst we do have the odd splashes of colour, there is an abundance of black and neutral tones in our house. I like it though as I feel it makes the colour we do choose to include even more…
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Nearly the weekend!
So it’s almost the weekend! What are your plans? We have a firework party to go to on Saturday night which I’m looking forward to. I’m promised there will be a big bonfire and some hot dogs. Yum. I’m also planning on taking a long walk at some point as since the clocks have gone…
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Interior crush: Tom Dixon
It was my birthday a few weeks ago and so Toby and I took the day off work and headed into London for the day. We did a few of our favourite things, such as eating fancy food, taking in some art and shopping in Harrods. I have another post planned about the day and…
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Celebrate Interiors: The home of Emily Henderson
As an interior designer, stylist and HGTV host, one would expect the home of Emily Henderson to be well curated, beautiful and inspiring. It is. A white base creates a sophisticated backdrop on which to house feature accents of navy, textured wood and gold. Interesting visual points are created with asymmetric ceiling mobiles and rather…
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Summer garden essentials: Outdoor fire pit
Earlier on in the week I shared some simple lighting ideas that you can use in absolutely any garden to create atmosphere during the (hopefully coming soon) summer evenings. Today I want to share another idea for a garden feature with you. Outdoor fire pits. Toby and I started investigating fire pits last summer but…
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Garden inspiration for summer evenings
This post is a hopeful, ‘wishful thinking’ post. The weather in London has been crazy over the past few days, with cold temperatures, drizzling rain and high winds. In June. Still, us Brits are used to such weather and I’m feeling more hopeful today as it’s possible to actually see the sun. Plus the weather…
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Celebrate Interiors: A Victorian house tour
Regular readers may be aware that Toby and I have been looking for a new home after selling our house in west London. We are not going very far, just over into Surrey, and I’m excited to say that we have had an offer accepted on a beautiful Victorian cottage. I’m not going to go…
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Today I’m inspired by…
this amazing office space in San Francisco. Admittedly it is extremely girly but I love it! You can see the full tour and more photographs over on Style me Pretty Living. Apologies for the lack of posts this week. Regular readers will know that we are in the midst of selling our house and so…
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Sew and Stitch
Another weekend is almost upon us and I’m looking forward to creating a few items for our home with these goodies from Laura Ashley on Sunday. I’m taking part in a sew and stitch competition with some fellow bloggers. I’ve been scouring the net and magazines looking for inspiration and have pinned a few ideas to my…
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#Houseproud feature
I’ve some exciting news to share today. Our home was in the Sunday Times last Sunday! I submitted some images to the House proud team about a week ago and was thrilled to see some of them in print as we read the paper at the weekend. You may recognise some of the images. The…
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