I don’t normally go for dark colours in the home but this dwelling in Cape Town has just the right injection of warmth. I love the textured walls, the yellow pop of colour and those suitcases, antlers…..the list goes on! House & Leisure SA June 2013, Photographs Micky Hoyle
Categories: Interiors • Tags: art, arts, Cape Town, craft, culture, design, diy, House & Leisure, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, photography, style, travel, vintage
I love the way this little home has been decorated. Really simply but drawing the eye to the natural character of the rooms. A tranquil post to lead us into the weekend……. (Images: Anna Kern/House of Pictures for Elle Decoration July 2013)
Categories: Interiors • Tags: Anna Kern, art, craft, culture, design, diy, Elle Decoration, Inspiration, Interiors, Josephine Ekstrom, lifestyle, photography, style, vintage
Check out this stunning 19th century villa in Reggio Emilia. It manages to mix glamour, salvage and antique style all into one. In fact, I pinched this from Elle Decoration Country – and I’m totally loving this magazine. I’m not massively into designer interiors and this is just full of the electic, collector-style homes. Right up my street – and I think the second edition is out soon, so keep your eye out for it. Images by Fabrizio Ciccioni/ Living […]
Categories: Interiors • Tags: art, arts, craft, design, diy, Elle Decoration Country, Fabrizio Cicconi, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, photography, style, vintage
I have just returned from Somerset House, where my good friend Emma and I were able to sample preview pieces from the next Boden Autumn Winter 2013 range. Forgetting the clothes for just a second, the styling for this event was “amazing”. The rooms were decked out with loads of quirky details which have just given me inspiration overload. What do you make of this? So now I know what to do with David’s collection of old tapes! And I […]
Categories: Fashion, Interiors, Photography2, vintage • Tags: art, arts, Boden, craft, design, diy, Fashion, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, photography, shopping, Somerset House, style, travel, vintage
How gorgeous is this shoot from an equally gorgeous blog called Travelling Mama? Makes me want to turn back the clock, be a ballerina, live in Copenhagen and ……organise my wardrobe while on pointe (perhaps not!) Love those colours and I’m all over those leg warmers: I have my own pole shoot on Friday and I’m hoping to include a few pics on pointe (if I can bear it!) Haven’t done that in a while, I can tell you. The […]
Categories: Dance, Fashion • Tags: art, arts, Ballet, beauty, culture, dance, design, Entertainment, Fashion, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, photography, style, travel
I’m afraid my blogging may be a little sporadic over the next few months, what with the extension and all. As we speak, a log cabin in being built in the back garden, to house some of the furniture which has no where to go, and I have been allocated a two day slot to prime and paint – the inside and the outside! So from tomorrow it’s going to be a case of pole and paint! On the subject […]
Categories: Interiors • Tags: art, arts, Burgundy, craft, culture, design, diy, Inspiration, Interiors, Josephine Verine Gintzburger, lifestyle, photography, restoration, style, travel, vintage
If your into the likes of House Doctor and Ferm Living then you’ll love Emma Fexus’s book Northern Delights, which features some of the créme de la créme of Scandinavian Design. You may well recognise the author as Emma from Emma’s Design blog – one of Sweden’s oldest design focused blogs and a fierce pinner! Some of the homes featured are a little on the minimal side (not ideal for a vintage hoarder like myself) but I could definitely see […]
Categories: Interiors, vintage • Tags: art, arts, books, craft, culture, design, diy, Emma's Design Blog, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, Northern Delights, photography, shopping, style, travel, vintage
There were some gorgeous things to buy at the Country Living Fair on Thursday. I wasn’t in a particularly “country” mood – probably something to do with the arctic weather and Angel tube station which seemed to affect my retail instinct. I found myself being drawn to the more unusual products and less interested in ditsy fabric and galvanized buckets of bulbs. McKinley and Moth For example the eye catching applique designs as McKinley and Moth. I just fell in […]
Categories: Interiors • Tags: art, arts, Country Living Fair, craft, culture, design, diy, Interiors, photography, shopping, style, travel, vintage
I have a thing for bare brick walls. In my dream home I would have a feature wall with a gorgeously aged and textured brick wall. But let’s face it unless your living in a factory conversion or a rare original apartment in Copenhagen or Paris, antique fixtures and aged brick are hard to find and, I would imagine, a devil to maintain. But if you want to fake it – now you can. There are some seriously clever wallpapers […]
Categories: Interiors, Photography2, vintage • Tags: art, arts, Bodie & Fou, Cecil Beaton, craft, design, Inspiration, Interiors, Irving Penn, marilyn monroe, Merci Wallpaper, photography, Rockett St George, shopping, style, vintage, Wallpapers
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