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10 of the best vases

recycled glass vase from zara
One of the best gifts I ever bought myself was a monthly subscription to a bunch of flowers. There have been times over the last few months when that has felt like a massive indulgence but the cancellation of my gym membership (I'm currently using the free Nike Training Club app although I will say
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My Home Office Plans

home office makeover plans by madaboutthehouse.com
After the 10th conversation about what I would do to the kitchen if we had the money and the justification for doing so, I heard the Mad Husband say to a friend: "She's got that look in her eye. I know that look. She needs to decorate something." Turns out I have a recognisable decorating
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Christmas Gift Guide Room by Room: The Bathroom

Frida Kahlo shower curtain image by @almost_everything_off_ebay
Racing through the room by room gift guides and now we reach the bathroom. This, of all the rooms, is the one most geared towards luxury presents. The desire for a hotel style bathroom has now become synonymous with the desire for a spa-like experience and presents for this room, while they can still be
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Christmas Gift Guide: Room by Room – The Bedroom

sleep masks from anthropologie
Seeing as it's got so cold - I know tis the season and all that - but still... I thought we'd head into the bedroom for the next Christmas Gift Guide as, at this time of year, it's my favourite room and the one I find hardest to leave. As with the other rooms, it's
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

ochre pouf and old painting by @n0.17house
Starting today with a bright burst of yellow as the clocks went back yesterday in the UK and although I'm typing this on a beautifully sunny Autumn morning (albeit with no idea what time it actually is) it might all have gone to winter by the time you are reading this in 24 hours time.
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New Shop Discovery: Hone

muuto yellow hallingdal sofa
Today I wanted to tell you about a new site that has launched that is geared towards making shopping easier as it helps you to search for the item you want and gathers a selection of them all together in one place so you can easily see what's available and, crucially, not feel that you've
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Interiors Trends 2019

warm neutrals by Bianca Hall of French for Pineapple
Oh I know we all say that trends aren't for following and we should ignore them and only buy what we love and will love for ever, but that doesn't mean we can't have a look. And given that the shops will likely be full of these things in 2019 we may as well be
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Mad About The House: How to Decorate Your Home with Style: The Reviews

KWS with book image by Frida Green of Pavilion
I hope you will forgive me a little mini-break here. Many of you will be away on holiday for the next few days or busy with friends and family rather than house-hunting or blog-reading. I tend to only take a break from publishing over Christmas but this year, having been so busy with the book
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Christmas Gift Guide I: The Kitchen

clockwise from bottom left - dessert plates by alijoe designs, noah plates from made.com, zen bowls from kelly hoppen, remodelista book, storage jars by weck, paper napkins from vitra Now I don't know you about but I often end up getting irritated with Christmas Gift Guides. I don't want to be classed as the "foodie"
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10 Best Sofas

I have written on these pages before about how to buy a sofa. What to look for and roughly what you might need to spend. The point being that if you buy a sofa for 600 quid you can't really complain when two years and two toddlers later it's a but mullered. If you want
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Interior Trends for 2018 Guest Post

Welcome to today’s guest blogger Kimberly Duran of Swoonworthy, winner of the blogger’s choice award at last year’s Amara’s Interior Blog Awards event. She wrote a post on interiors trends for 2018 – what’s coming in and what’s dropping out – for next year and it chimed so well with what I also feel is
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5 Ways To Revamp Your Bedroom

grey bedroom photographed by Paul Craig styled by Kate Watson-Smyth
This week in my mini series 5 ways to revamp a room and this time we're looking at the bedroom. We have recently revamped The Mad House bedroom by changing the wallpaper (see below) and painting the walls. Neither of those tips appear in this list as I imagine you can work that one out
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10 Best Coffee Tables

I am frequently asked about coffee tables. It's a really important piece of furniture that, for some reason, is rarely about a place to actually put a cup off coffee. It's more about the coffee table book and a place to arrange some decorative objects. Whatever you use yours for here is my round up
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Arcadia Mural Wallpaper

Now I don't know if I've mentioned this (cue snores) but I'm currently writing the second book. It's out next March if I haven't..... Anyway, one thing - by the way I've done 37,000 words out of 40,000 at this point (cue round of applause) - now where was I? Oh yes one thing my
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Choosing Taps with Grohe

basins at grohe
There are some aspects of house refurbishment that are indescribably dull. The bits you don't really want to have to devote brain power to, but the things that you have to have before you can get to the fun stuff. Things like placing electric sockets - never enough/often in the wrong place, fire regulations affecting
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Pretty Serving Platter in Grey and Gold

vodina platter from anthropologie Now I don't know about you, but I'm not averse to watching the odd cookery programme. God knows I love to eat and I definitely love to know where the next meal is coming from. But I do often find when watching the likes of Nigella and Nigel, Jamie and Hugh,
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10 of the Best: Dining Tables

tiptoe legs from France
So it's September. The summer holidays may still be rolling on, but for the rest of us, it's all about shiny new pencil cases and starting afresh. We started this series with a look at the 10 best dining chairs, moved on to floor lamps and now it's back to food (a subject always close
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French Connection Home Collection

I'm including this in the August updates series because some of these pieces have gone on sale since I first posted about them. That red leather chair for one..... It is a little known fact that red is actually a brilliant neutral. Fashiony people are often singing the praises of the red handbag on the
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Woven Chair

white woven lounge chair from urbanoutfitters Now I don't know about you, but I have bought a few things from Urban Outfitters, although it's not somewhere I go regularly and the branch nearest to me is so huge and busy and loud that I instantly feel slightly bothered by the whole experience and end up
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