On Instagram I’ve shared a 30-second Reel video of my home style and fashion sense from the 1990s to the present day. In this blog post I’m going into more detail about the influences and inspiration behind my style in each decade…
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Behind Hill & Friends founder Emma Hill’s famous pink door
Of the many wonderful pink doors I’ve seen, one stands frame and fanlight above the rest. And that is the hot pink, be-googly-eyed front door belonging to hip handbag label Hill & Friends’ fabulous founder Emma Hill, behind which she lives with her 12-year-old son.
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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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The Pink House X hush
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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How brands should work with bloggers - a case study
I made myself a solemn promise when I started The Pink House that I'd only work with companies that fitted the following criteria: 1) I loved their stuff, 2) they loved my stuff…
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Getting started on the holiday packing.../Walls painted in Oval Room Blue by Farrow & Ball; Jacket by Rino & Pelle
Family holiday packing essentials (to make it feel like a Royal honeymoon)
Catering for the kids can become the first thing you think about when holiday packing, but make sure it’s not the last. If you fancy enjoying your well-earned break as much as Princess Meghan will enjoy her honeymoon, here are 8 things to put in your suitcase (sorry, Ginger Prince not included)…
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Stylist Antonia McKenzie at home
Do you dress like you decorate, Part 2
In this second part of the DYDLYD series, I chat to interior blogging guru Kimberly Duran from Swoon Worthy; super-talented interior stylist and fashion blogger Antonia McKenzie; and Alex Gorton from gorgeous lifestyle blog Wear & Where, and her own recently-launched online fashion store, The Alex Edit...
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Sophie Robinson at home/Photo: Alun Callendar
Do you dress like you decorate?
Here’s fashion editor/blogger/stylist Alex Stedman from The Frugality (who is also renovating a house - swoon!), pink-haired fashion blogger Amanda Davies from Honey Pop Kisses, and Sophie Robinson off the telly, all showing us their decor and their dress sense, and pondering how one relates to the other…
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Me and my home decor gateway purchase: surprise - it's a pink velvet armchair
Your designer décor ‘gateway purchases’ that opened the shopping floodgates
What's your home decor gateway purchase? I asked this question on Instagram Stories and was rewarded with a flood of fascinating, inspiring, shocking, heart-warming answers (and a whole host of monkey-covering-eyes emojis), a selection of which you can read here…
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I'll take one of everything
SHOCK NEWS! A maximalist falls for Scandi style
I've been pretty sniffy about Scandi style in the past. I've haw-hawed at Hyyge, poo-pooed the pared-back colour palette and shied away from the bare walls and empty spaces. But what I'd failed to realise is how Scandi subtleties are the very definition of less is more. Or that less actually CAN be more...
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Behind the scenes on my B&Q video
When B&Q asked me a few weeks ago if I'd make a film for them about decorating your home for autumn I was 80% excited and only 10% terrified/worried my mouth would look weird (the final 10% went on thinking about chocolate).
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Laurie's living room, painted in Abigail Ahern Rivington Blue
Laurie Lee's darkly dramatic homage to Abigail Ahern
Laurie Lee, founder of the eponymous leather jacket label, describes the style of her extraordinary North London house as "Norman Bates meets Abigail Ahern". Come in and have a look around...
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Firmdale's pretty Dorset Square Hotel in Marylebone
The ultimate Spring shopping spree
One bright, crocusy morning when I had nothing to wear a timely email arrived: would I like to test Firmdale Hotels’ new Bicester Village shopping package? I knew Firmdale, Kit Kemp's super-stylish hotel group, but I’d never been to Bicester, the designer outlet in Oxfordshire...
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In Valentino Rockstud flats/Photo: Katie Lee
Why I've ditched heels for flats forever
It's been revealed this week that there are still loads of sexist employers who force female employees to wear heels. So this seemed a good time to make a stand (!) in flat shoes, and explain why I've chosen never to wear heels ever ever again, like, ever.
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