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Beautiful Rooms: Singin’ The Blues

styled by @saritastylist window film shot for @purlfrost the design is tiny photos of butterflies just gorgeous 😍 📷 @dominicblackmorephotography assistant @ella_of_east PR @pursuepr
As regular readers will know blue is not a colour I feature very often but this week, for some reason, I found myself drawn to it on several occasions so let's see where it takes us. Looking at what I chose I think it's the opposite of cold and yet, if you did stray into
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Tiptoeing into Yellow

cheetah rug from anthropologie
If Joa Studholme of Farrow & Ball said in 2017 that yellow is coming then you better believe her. That woman's entire career is based on telling us what we will like in the future and she's really, really good at it. It may have taken five years, which is a sign of how slowly
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Beautiful Rooms For A Monday – for the love of terracotta

the palma (mallorca) showroom of @dustydeco
When I can't sleep I decorate. Not literally but in my mind's eye. I start with rooms I own and imagine methodically clearing them out to make way for a new design. Then, should rest still be elusive, I move onto rooms I don't own. I might pick a style - this week it seems
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms with Tiles

ric rac by bert and may and samantha todhunter design studio
Morning all! I think it was interesting to note that while the overwhelming feeling was that last Friday's househunter was useful the pictures weren't inspiring and this has always been my dilemma with that slot - either you can have lovely images which might fire the imagination, or you can have words that might help,
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Monday Inspiration: Chocolate All Round

design by alice grace interiors
This week's inspiration was begun by the top two pictures - one wallpaper, one paint and then I realised there was a theme developing as I had also promised to show you a couple of the new shots of my house taken by Mark Anthony Fox, who does a lot of the dreamy photography for
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Places to inspire your spaces

kitchen design by karen knox of making spaces
Happy Monday or whatever day you are reading this to you all. I'm excited to share today's finds with you as there are a couple that really set my heart racing and after nearly 10 years of this blog and 20 writing about interiors I'm taking that as a good sign. kitchen design by karen
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Monday Inspiration: Yellow Accents (trend alert)

Some of us are clinging onto summer while some of us are eyeing cosy jumpers and woolly socks and are ready to move into the new season. For me this is one of those "how it started... how it's going" posts. As regular readers will know I have traditionally not been a fan of yellow.
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Monday Inspiration: Wood is for Warmth

dark wood kitchen cabinets, vertical black brick tiles halfway, giant terrazzo flooring kitchen at Zoe Anderson (wa green) by Guy Derwent architects
Right so I'm going to try very hard to write about the picture next to the picture to avoid the scrolling up and down but this will mean we're going straight in. None of that spraff about how are you, what's the news, have you remembered to water the pots (er no not as often
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

image via historiskahem photo: @fboukari Styling: @copparstadinterior
Well what a week. I spent most of it filming for something that I will tell you all about in September and then my in-laws came for the weekend; the first time they have been here since 2019. It felt so strange to see them inside and not huddling under an umbrella at the end
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Monday Inspiration: The New Stone Collection from Little Greene

The new stone collection from little greene: brunswick green and portland stone in light and pale
There is always much fanfare when Dulux and Pantone release their colours of the year shortly before Christmas. This time it was Brave Ground for the former - a sort of greyish mud that was instantly polarising as everyone demanded uplifting colours given the year they had just been through, not realising that Dulux picks
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

stracciatella tiles from reed harris
Welcome to Monday - I hope it's going well so far... and I appreciate with the C word (not that one) the B word and, in the US, the T word things might not be all that, so let this be your escape from it all. Let's wander through today's very (I mean really) beautiful
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Monday Inspiration: Colour Blocking and Clever Ways with Paint

pink and yellow by colourist emilie fournet interiors
From Friday neutrals to Monday's (muted) brights and I hope you like these rooms that I have found to show you today. While I may not enjoy the zingy brights of a clean colour palette I'm all over lots of intense but muted colours; you know the ones that have a dollops of grey in
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Interior Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

pomegranate wallpaper by tatty lowther
Everything's coming up roses... well not necessarily yet but shall we go with the green of new beginnings ? Or maybe just - it was a long week but it all turned out all right in the end. So here are some lovely rooms for you to stroll through on this Monday morning when I,
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Beautiful Rooms: Monday Inspiration

Black kitchen cabinets, large windows with natural linen curtains and wooden dining table and chairs by Neptune.
A round up of pictures that have caught my eye over the last week. And one of the things that struck me, after I had decided on the final five, was that three of them are product shots and so I got to thinking... you know the rest but actually if you like SATC you
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

marianne cotterill location house blue panelling
A bumper post for you today as it's a mix of househunter and inspirational rooms and that's because the house of top interiors stylist Marianne Cotterill is on the market and I thought, since it's a top location house as well that you might fancy a look. Located in north west London, this six bedroom
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Five of the best Kitchen Stools

There are certain pieces of furniture that are essential to the functioning of any house - I have written before about the power of the Persian rug, the lure of antique furniture and the flexibility of the console table, but there is another that is so useful in any home and given that the WFH
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Monday Inspiration: A drop of Green

bathroom by shrez at plum and crumble
And here we are again with a little bit of soothing green for a Monday. This is for all those who need to take a breath. Green is a calming, creative colour (I wrote about the psychology of it here) and as the school holidays start but the actual holidays don't seem to, it seemed
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The Househunter: A Grand Victorian Terrace

To Brixton, in south London, this week and this distinctive Victorian terrace house which somehow manages to look much bigger than its neighbours because of the black paint and I would never have thought that was a thing until I saw this house. Anyway, it's on the market with Brickworks for £1,250,000. Coming in? There
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

image via morris&co
Well I'm feeling a bit better about things this week and I hope you are too and if you're not, well perhaps be reassured that it seems to be an emotional rollercoaster for all of us at the moment and you can be down for no apparent reason and bounce back up again for something
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The Househunter: Moody isn’t always Mean

This will be a polariser I'm sure but for many of you in the industry this will be instantly recognisable as a location house which has provided the setting for many fashion and lifestyle shoots. It is even rumoured to be the house that inspired Abigail Ahern on her own journey to the dark side.
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