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  • Six ways to use cool metallics in your home

    Six ways to use cool metallics in your home

    June 4, 2024February 17, 2026

    Easy ways to incorporate cool-toned metals such as chrome, steel and aluminium into your interiors – plus my favourite cold metallic designs…

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    20 of the best timeless wooden dining chairs

    May 24, 2024February 17, 2026

    Choosing a dining chair can be tricky. Here are 20 beautiful and timeless wooden chairs that are unlikely to ever date, along with my top tips…

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    GUBI’s new London showroom

    May 23, 2024January 30, 2026

    Danish design brand GUBI’s new London showroom combines contemporary minimalism, original features and sophisticated Scandinavian style…

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    Home tour | A minimalist makeover of a historical Rome apartment

    May 21, 2024January 30, 2026

    Peek inside a minimalist apartment restoration in Rome, with earthy neutral colours, clever design tricks and a broken-plan layout…

  • The power of textural contrasts with Carl Hansen & Søn’s ‘PK1’ chair in paper cord

    The power of textural contrasts with Carl Hansen & Søn’s ‘PK1’ chair in paper cord

    May 15, 2024February 17, 2026

    With its sleek stainless-steel frame and woven paper-cord seat, Carl Hansen & Søn’s reimagined PK1 chair embodies textural contrast – a great way to give any space an instant lift…

  • New design finds | May 2024

    New design finds | May 2024

    May 3, 2024January 30, 2026

    On my radar this month are relaunched Scandinavian classics, a beautiful modular sofa, gorgeous paint colours and a new minimalist furniture brand from New Zealand…

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From a blustery, atmospheric weekend on the Northu From a blustery, atmospheric weekend on the Northumberland coast, around this time last year. We were there for a friend's birthday celebration, and it's a beautiful place - well worth the looooong drive from the West Country. It was during that weekend that Chris and I realised just how much we enjoyed being out of the city and decided to give our longed-for move to the countryside a go. In fact we'd called the estate agent by the time we got back to Bristol, and our house was on the market within a fortnight! 

#visitnorthumberland #thisprettyengland #thewildnesstonic #mistyfoggymilkymoody #gowildlyandslow
I couldn't resist bringing a bit of blossom from o I couldn't resist bringing a bit of blossom from our copper beech inside to display in our home office - one of the few rooms that isn't total chaos at the moment! 

Going out to the garden to be greeted by the blossom has been a lovely surprise this week. Obviously I knew our new house came with the tree, and I know trees blossom. But somehow I still hadn't expected it! 

#springhomedecor #springstyling #blossomwatch #seasonalhomedecor #natureinthehome
Small joys amid the renovation chaos today: beauti Small joys amid the renovation chaos today: beautiful spring light, discovering the copper beech tree in our garden has blossomed, and sitting down to read @thedesignchaser's wonderful new book The Quiet Home (which includes a photo of our previous house). And laughing at a cat who thinks he's good at hiding but really isn't! 

#springjoy #slowsimpleseasonal #blossomwatch #seasonalhome #chasinglight
[AD] I feel like we're starting to make real progr [AD] I feel like we're starting to make real progress with the renovation now. The beautiful pale oak @quickstepfloors Cascada hardwood boards [PR product] have been laid in the main bedroom and office, both of which are now almost finished. The carpet has also been removed throughout the downstairs rooms so fitting the flooring can start there, our new internal doors, bronze handles, bronze plug sockets and bronze light switches have been installed throughout, and a chimney breast has been built in the living room ready for the custom-made Bath-stone fireplace that arrives on Friday. Meanwhile Loki is alternating between site supervising and delivery-box inspection, and taking both roles very seriously. 

#renolife #cottagerenovation #softminimalism #minimalinterior #cottageinterior
From a beautifully wintry, frosty morning before t From a beautifully wintry, frosty morning before this seemingly endless rain set in... I'm not normally one to complain about the weather, but seriously...?! 

#thebeautyinwinter #mistyfoggymilkymoody #visitwiltshire #thisprettyengland #cornersofmyworld

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