When I welcomed my gorgeous pink bed into The Pink House, I was excited to dress it up with various bedlinen sets. Come on in for a closer look…
Read MoreMarks & Spencer Bug Print Bedding Set on my new pink bed/Photo: Susie Lowe
The big Pink House bedroom reveal – Before/After
“There are two things I definitely don’t want in our new bedroom,” said the Pink House Husband last summer, “And that’s pink walls and patterned wallpaper.” Read on for the tale of my bedroom renovation, AKA how I stuck to the PHH’s brief but still ended up with the pink, patterned bedroom of my dreams…
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Bedroom blinds and straddle jumps
When Hillarys asked me to style a bedroom totally to my taste, using their new roller blinds collection as a starting point, I wondered how far I could push it. Would they let me use pink neon? How about an edgy concrete wall? Could I throw in my favourite birdcage lamps? The answers were yes, yes and YES!
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"It's like we got a really nice big sofa then GOT RID OF HALF OF IT with all these bloody cushions"/Photo: Gavin Smith
Pink House Husband Overheard
This post pays homage to more! magazine's 'Men Overheard' page, while providing the perfect platform for some of PHH's recent opinions on a variety of subjects he is ill equipped to have opinions about...
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A room of my own: my study renovation revealed!
I was delighted when the Pink House Husband agreed I could claim this room for my own (although I think that had more to do with the fact that I promised to use the space to store all extraneous cushions and scented candles than any altruistic motive)...
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A bedroom in the Crosby Hotel, NY, designed by Kit Kemp
How I designed my dream bed
Super sexy pink velvet curtains by The London Curtain Girls in The Pink House/Photo: Susie Lowe
2018: Year of the Sexy Curtain
“Our curtains are like couture for windows,” says Mary Walsh, co-founder of bespoke curtain company The London Curtain Girls, and a subscriber to the curtains-as-fabulous-home-clothing concept. Together with business partner Laragh Bohn, she made my – yes – my SEXY pink velvet curtains, and I still can’t get over how much I love them...
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How to create a wow-factor Christmas table (even if you can’t cook)
Looking for inspo when it comes to fabulizing your home during the festivities? Well, keep reading, because the people at Heinz [Seriously] Good Mayonnaise, have asked me to share my ideas on how to upgrade your Christmas – specifically, your Christmas table...
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Never ever letting go of this wow-factor Jonathan Adler vase
The Pink House London sitting room - big festive reveal!
Amara's Kitschmas trend ticks all of my Christmas decor boxes: Pink - tick! Irreverent - tick! Luxurious - tick! Shiny and sparkly - tick! Confectionary-as-Christmas-theme - tick! This made choosing from the wide selection of decor deliciousness very difficult, as you can imagine. But choose I did...
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Sophie: "I've got my paint brush - let's do it!"
Amara Interior Blog Awards 2017: the night in captions
How about I tell my story of the night at the Kensington Design Museum through the medium of photo captions? It might not be entirely accurate, but it could be vaguely amusing...
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Emily wasn't listening when the fish said she'd taken on too much
Renovation deflation: lessons I’ve learned this week
I’m recklessly ignoring the unwritten Renovation Rule Book, and trying to do too many things in too short a time frame, with not enough information, and only the merest hint of approval from the Pink House Husband (i.e. I haven’t actually told him what I’m up to)...
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Design by 2LG Studio/Photo: Megan Taylor
What pink means to me
Given that it’s basically just red with some white chucked in, pink’s impact is extraordinary. To pay homage to this most polarising of colours, I asked four pink-passionate, super-inspiring people to give me their take on this incredible colour...
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C.P. Hart's collaboration with House of Hackney: I'll take the lot please
3 beautiful blush and brass bathrooms my husband hates
Although I'm feeling the pressure to create a bathroom as Pinterest-popular as my last one, at least I have my trump card (surely we need another term - "obama card"?): PINK. And not just pink - blush pink and brass!
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Copper Estello candlestick; White Sevan marble pot, both La Redoute
Millennial Pink is SO last century: so what’s next?
Like it or not, all good trends must come to an end. So what’s the natural progression from plants on pink? Presenting my new décor obsession: Cactus on Copper!
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Behind the scenes on The Pink House's Primark shoot
The Pink House's photographer Susie Lowe and I recently styled and shot a story at my house for Primark's blog. But what you can't read on the Primark post is what REALLY went down at the photoshoot. So here, just for you guys, I reveal 7 things that happened behind the scenes...
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