Here are my 5 family holiday skiing commandments, to guarantee your time on and off the slopes is sensational, no matter how many small people you bring with you…
Read MoreThe kitchen/dining area at Chalet Mirabelle, St Gervais
Meet the designer: Amy Exton
If you haven’t yet heard of set/interior designer Amy Exton and her Margate Location House, prepare to drink the Kool-Aid. Her signature ‘acid-aesthetic’ can be seen splashed across every room, transforming the space into a Club Tropicana dream…
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Welcome to The Pink House 3.0
Today marks EXACTLY 3 YEARS since I launched The Pink House blog/brand/business! So it feels like the perfect day to re-start this blog, and the newsletter, which has lain dormant for far longer than I intended…
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The dining room I designed for OKA/Photo: Nick Pope
How to design a dining room
When OKA asked me to design a room - any room - using their products, my first thought was, “where is the bar cart going to go?”. I bloody love a bar cart, me…
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My Edinburgh bathroom/Photo: Susie Lowe
Pink House Helps...in the bathroom
This is the first in my Pink House Helps series, and I’ve decided to start with some popular questions on bathrooms. Hopefully this post will help make your littlest room into the loveliest room in your home.
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Styling an adults-only Halloween party with Sainsbury’s Home
This year I’m determined to reclaim Halloween; why should the kids have all the fun? So I’ve teamed up with Sainsbury’s Home and used their excellent Halloween décor range to help me style up a scary drinks party at The Pink House, with absolutely NO kids allowed…
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The Pink House X hush
“If Mummy had only remembered to pre-book tickets I’d be at the top right now”
The dos and don'ts of Paris with kids
I don’t speak French, but 48 hours in Paris with an eight-year-old has qualified me to share my dos and don’ts of a (mainly) successful avec-kid trip to this sexy city…
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F*** You Cancer, a brilliant new book by Deborah James; click HERE to buy
Why I’m not qualified to write about cancer (but I’m going to do it anyway)
Until I met Deborah James AKA @Bowelbabe, Cancer was pretty much pink ribbons and park runs. Now, thanks to my inspirational friend, I’m starting to learn a little about what it’s like to be on the other side of Cancer.
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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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Sexy AND practical - what more could you want from a (otto)man?/Photo: Susie Lowe
Why you need an ottoman in your life
Wherever we live, we all wish we had more space. Especially if - like me - you live in London, where property costs an average of £7000 per square metre. Eek! And so we need to be making the most of every inch.
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"Oh yes - it's TOTALLY to his taste..." Photo: Architectural Digest | Design: Drake/Anderson
QUIZ: Are you winning the interior war?
The first rule of any fight? Know thy enemy. This quiz will help you understand your interior design opponent and your personal fighting style, and I’ve included some useful hints and tips to help you overcome your nemesis…
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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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The Pink House in the Evening Standard
It's an odd feeling, standing on the Tube, watching people stare at your kitchen and read you being quoted as saying, "It was important to me that my kitchen didn't look like a kitchen"…
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