I might be a reluctant cook with a penchant for Pot Noodle, but I do love to eat/drink (preferably pink champagne from a cut-glass coupe, if you’re offering). Which made the recent sorry state of The Pink House’s plates and glassware all the more shameful.
Somehow, between not adding a dinner service to our wedding list nearly 11 years ago (given that we ate out 75% of the time, I was much more interested in accumulating cash to spend on honeymoon) and procreating two small Pink House Dwellers who smash plates like they’re at a Greek wedding, we never got round to acquiring attractive tableware, although our plastic Peter Rabbit bowl game was strong.
Until I laid eyes on Marks & Spencer’s latest array of dining table deliciousness.
As part of my ongoing partnership with M&S, I recently wrote a blog post about my visit to the homes section of their Westfield Stratford store. As you can clearly see from this post, I had lots of kid-free shopping fun, and got rather overexcited about the pretty things I found (and not just because seeing them in three dimensions was such a novelty).
Many of my favourite bits came from the cook and dine area (I literally couldn’t leave that gold cocktail shaker alone), so I thought I’d bring them back to The Pink House and show them off in a family home setting. So long Peter Rabbit plastic bowls, melamine mugs and ugly cracked crockery – my dinner service (and drinks tray) has had an upgrade, and even the Pink House Husband’s delighted! Pass the sachet of soy sauce, please…and a coupe of pink champagne while you’re at it…
(For credits see bottom of post. All photos of The Pink House by Susie Lowe)
Drinks tray in The Pink House study
Dining table credits
Bistro blue dinner plate, £6 | Tavira blue/turquoise side plate, £8 | Tavira blue/turquoise pasta bowl, £8 | Tavira blue/turquoise serving bowl, £25 | Hammered serving spoons, £17.50 | Copenhagen light pink glass tumbler, £4 | Copenhagen light pink glass carafe, £15 | Sicily blue high ball glass (used as vase for the paperwhites), £4.50 | Salisbury salt and pepper, £9.50 | Manhattan 24-piece cutlery set, £59 | Charleston teapot, £29.50 | Alphabet letter mugs, £5
Drinks tray credits
Rectangular mirror tray, £35 | Manhattan cocktail shaker, £19.50 | Ophelia 4 pack pastel wine glasses, £25 | Nouveau 2 pack champagne saucer, £25
This post is part of The Pink House's paid partnership with Marks & Spencer. As always, all opinions, thoughts and love of pretty pink and blue things are entirely my own.
