The thing I love most about entertaining outside, is the lack of mess and clutter it creates inside! Our homes have to work so hard these days - and my boys are definitely not getting any smaller, so every spare inch counts…
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My London bedroom, where I love to sleep uninterrupted by screaming babies
Why sleep deprivation forced me to leave London
A great sleep turns me into a morning person, a jump-out-of-bed, look-on-the-bright-side, Ferris Bueller-quoting kind of person. Basically, a person who, when life moves pretty fast, has the energy to ensure I don’t miss it…
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The PLAY chair with me and Katie
Revealed: The Pattern Project chairs I designed with DFS!
Revealed! The full range of 6 fabulous patterned armchairs I designed in partnership with DFS and Katie @comedowntothewoods, AND the crafty quiz I’ve concocted to help you decide which chair is right for you…
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The best room in The Pink House
Family spaces are all very well, but right now, after months of being locked down with two little boys and one largish ginger man, heaven is a space of my own…
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This gorgeous garden, complete with festoon lights and paper lanterns, belongs to @agi_at_59
The best garden lights for a stay-home summer holiday
Thanks to lockdown, we now have a) the makings of a poncey pretend-you’re-in-Ibiza outdoor seating area (thanks, handy Pink House Husband), and b) an imperative to light it so enticingly that a passing Calvin Harris would settle down beside me and offer me a sip of his Spritz (this is a euphemism).
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Buy ten and your karmic scales will be balanced for life…
Help a sister out
What if there were some magical way of receiving delicious home goodies AND have that added moral superior rush one gets from the thrill of giving? These nine interiors finds look great and help to give back to charity – particularly women’s causes. It’d basically be heartless for you not to whip out your credit card.
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The scarcely-seen loo side of my Edinburgh bathroom
Breaking the loo taboo
When it comes to bathrooms, everyone’s happy to chat pretty taps, rolltop tubs and lovely lighting. But despite the fact that using the loo is the main reason we go to the littlest room, when it comes to designing a sanitary space, no-one really talks about toilets. How very British of us!
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Image via Posh Frocks & Wellies Pinterest
The Greatest Home On Earth
Stripes, sequins, candy floss and friendly elephants - what’s not to love about the Big Top? Here are The Pink House’s favourite circus-themed interiors to help make yours…(cue Hugh Jackman voice…) THE GREATEST HOME ON EARTH!
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Avocado and raffia have combined to form a super group
Interior ideas to steal from Bella Freud’s £3.8m BBC building apartment
Bella Freud’s knitwear is instantly recognisable and effortlessly chic, transforming a chilly day into a bright one with a swift injection of her signature playful style. So when we heard she’d designed an apartment in the newly renovated Television Centre – also home to the utterly fabulous White City Soho House – we had to take a snoop around…
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Painting the town pink, room-by-room
In the Pink: 11 pieces to pink up your pad
Here at The Pink House, we unabashedly LOVE pink and everything it denotes – irreverence, playfulness, flirtation and yes, an unabashed celebration of the feminine (whatever gender you are). So we rustled up The Pink House’s most on-brand shopping edit ever. Here are 11 perfect pieces to pink up your pad…
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Prints by Desenio (From top, L to R: Pink Gradient Cubes; Pink Sky; Pink Dress)
How I found my Prints Charming and fell back in love with my home office
Sometimes the perfect brand approaches you with the perfect project at the perfect time. In this case, when I was at peak print panic, it was Desenio, the affordable art specialists, who asked if I’d like to pick some pieces from their collection to hang on The Pink House walls…
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Pink House Living, the book of the blog, is out NOW!
I always dreamed of writing my own book. And so, when I started The Pink House blog/business three years ago, a book was part of the plan. I felt there was a gap in the market for a beautiful, colourful interiors book that inspired its readers to create a home that made them truly happy, while making them laugh…
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Dotty doggy wallcovering from Murals Wallpaper
101 Dalmatian interiors (alright then, 7)
We hope this dotty edit will make you doggedly determined to go out and bring some damned spots into your life. You’d be barking mad not to…
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The Pink House’s peachy family room, decked out in fabulous Shrimps for Habitat decor
The Pink House family room reveal!
In the same way that most families have an awkward uncle, stubborn aunt or uncooperative cousin, most homes have a room that’s just plain difficult to decorate. In The Pink House’s case, this room is the Family Room…
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When Painthouse met The Pink House
The new paint company rewriting the colour rules
A couple of months ago I got a mysterious email about a paint brand called Painthouse - a brand so new their website didn’t even exist yet. They sent me the 72-colour paint chart…and I was sold straightaway. These are some seriously mood-lifting colours…
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