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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

tobacco coloured built in bed with arch and large gingham check bedlinen in black and white.
Well pull up a chair (or a curved sofa) who's been watching Halston? It's a five part drama on Netflix about the fashion designer who started out as a milliner (finding fame after Jackie Kennedy wore one of his pillbox hats for the presidential inauguration) and went on to dominate the fashion of the 70s
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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: Beautiful Rooms

tongue and groove panelling with wallpaper by mytinyestate
Well I don't know about you but I'm in need of soothing calm this week. I wonder if it's the thought of lockdown ending? Or, if things go wrong  - not ending. You know when you are about to go on holiday and you suddenly feel exhausted or can't sleep? It's as if you have
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

spring colour palette by crown paints featuing clay, pink, terracott and green
I never start this post with a theme in mind. It is a collection of pictures that have caught my eye over the week from various sources - usually Instagram - and I prefer to let the eye wander and see where we end up. This has the, hopefully, added advantage of appealing to more
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

Hallway landing with dark wood banister, jute floor runner, William Morris wallpaper in soft tones, wooden bookcase.image by @home_stead
By many accounts last week was a tricky one, not just because of events in America which will have touched some of you personally, but also the first week of a new year which was, for many us, spent in another lockdown with dire news reports coming in from every direction. So, as usual, I
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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

pink and wooden kitchen design by studio duggan and 202 design photo by mariell lind hansen
Focusing on kitchens and bathrooms this week as these are the hardest to get right, the most expensive and yet the most important rooms in the house. The key to both of these rooms is not to treat them in isolation. They are part of your home and, as such, must reflect and link with
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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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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

via wanderinginteriors @lumikello__’s apartment
Never never never would I have thought to paint the ceiling of a pale pink room in pale blue, but the the other day I was lying on our bed in our pale pink bedroom looking out of the window of the blue sky and thinking how pretty it was and then this turned up
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Monday Inspirations: Beautiful Rooms

blue mountain school in london's east end
And so we reach July and I have been taken by a meme which keeps popping up on Instagram which reads thus: "Dear July, I don't want any trouble from you, just come in, sit down, don't touch anything and keep your mouth shut". And I really can't think of anything more apt at the
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

two pairs of curtains in one room, both blue pattern with a bold blue and linen tablecloth. styling by sarita sharma for clarke and clarke
Diving into a little subtle pattern this week as I think there is a fashion for full on maximalism at the moment but it's not right for everyone so I thought we could have a look at it being used in different ways. I love pattern but, as regular readers no, am scared off too
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Monday Inspiration Beautiful Rooms

design by wendy morrison
Monday morning and let's start with the bedroom because since this lockdown started eleventy billion years ago I no longer have to get up at 6.30am to wake the 16yo for school and frankly I'm now not sure I will ever be able to get up before 8 o'clock again. OK sometimes 9... anyway moving
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Spaces

Emerald green Chinoiserie wallpaper by de Gournay with floral sofa, textured rug and glass coffee table.
Starting with a glorious riot of wallpaper this week. De Gournay handpainted papers are so pretty and this bright green can't fail to lift the spirits. This was chosen by Matthew Williamson for his flagship London store (although I confess I don't know if it's still there as that was several years ago).  I could
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Spaces

Black and white chequer board kitchen floor and bed head as bench back by medina @grillodesigns
A mix of beautiful rooms for you this week with no particular theme. Last week we needed calming spaces and then shortly after that the world basically exploded and everyone is shouting at everyone else. With just and understandable cause it seems. So here are five rooms. All by clever people, all of whom are
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

A look at some inspiring room schemes with Kate Watson-Smyth. This home office features a terracotta filing cabinet is a darker shade than the walls and the green cupboard provides a glorious jolt of contrast. #homeoffice #terracottascheme #madaboutthehouse
Come on in. Let's go for a calm and quiet stroll through a collection of beautiful rooms and take a moment to look at what appeals (or doesn't in each room). We have the time to plan so we might as well really look at what works for us in each of these and see
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Monday Inspiration Beautiful Rooms

pink gallery wall grid via Bianca Hall @frenchforpineapple
So here we are then. It's certainly not the new normal yet is it, but it's the new reality at least. I hope you are all staying well and indoors. Can I firstly say thank you all so much for your messages of support for my post last week. I will absolutely continue to write
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Beautiful Rooms: A Dash of Mustard

Kate Watson-Smyth looks at ways of injecting touches of mustard to scheme. Here a pale pink bedroom with navy headboard and side tables has the simple addition of mustard cushions to liven the scheme. #mustardaccents #madaboutthehouse #bedroom
Well now are you sitting comfortably with washed hands and ready to take our weekly stroll through some beautiful rooms. If we're all going to be quarantined soon then we're going to need all the inspiration we can get and I'm starting this week with a look at how a dash of mustard can just
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

baylion house dresser from onedot
Gooooooooood Mooooooooorning Monday. I hope that the wind has died down, the floods have receded and the viruses are at bay in your corner of the world this morning. And in an attempt to distract ourselves from all those horrors who fancies a little stroll through some beautiful rooms with a cup of coffee before
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

mural wall by makingspaces.net
Morning to you all and I hope you are all ok after the battering from Storm Dennis over the weekend. We discovered a leak in the top bathroom which is coming down into our bedroom below but I'm not sure I can blame Dennis for it in all honesty. Fence panels and roof tiles are
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