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Spotlight on Design: Melina Blaxland-Horne of Melodi Horne
Any interior designer worth their salt will tell you that accenting spaces around the home with beautifully bold statement pieces is an essential. And so it is for Notting Hill…
Netflix & BBC2 Interior Design Masters
A phone call from a production company in March 2018, kick started a somewhat crazy yet fun journey that I am very excited to share with you, starting next Wednesday,…
Inspirational Home Libraries
“A room without books is like a body without a soul” Cicero It would seem the older I get, the truer this quote is. For most of us books remind…
Project Spotlight: Northwood Senior School
This Garrads Road property, currently housing Broomwood Hall Lower School is slowly being converted for a new Senior School that will be part of the Broomwood Hall family, opening September…
Upstairs Downstairs
Hallways are tricky. Some are a natural storage space (note I didn’t say dumping ground!), some are plain awkward; whether too narrow, tall or even dark. But with the most…
Introducing The Edit & My Top 3 Pieces
I am absolutely thrilled to be able to bring you our Seasonal Edit for Autumn/Winter 2019. I have created The Edit to offer you fabulous pieces for your home, items…
Focus18 journey colour design centre
Following March’s incredible theme ‘Legends and Collaborations’ my expectations for the Design Centre during this year’s London Design Festival were high. I could not have been more delighted on hearing…
Living Coral – Pantone Colour of the year 2019
Living Coral – Pantone’s colour of the year for 2019 was released in early December and like its name is a vibrant colour and one I completely adore! As a…
Fearne Cotton – Dulux Ambassador for Colour of The Year: Spiced Honey
When Dulux announced its Colour of the Year as Spiced-Honey it took me a moment to decide. As a stand-alone colour this brown hue wouldn’t be my choice, but then…
Verity’s Quick Christmas Interiors Tips
If, like me, you find yourself in the first week of December feeling a mixture of dread and excitement down to both a growing to do list and having just…
How to style teal & mustard
I love colour trends. The way that Pantone (the all-choosing-colour-decider, God of colour) tells us the colours for the upcoming year (and then season) and obediently all manufacturers, designers from…
Rascal & Roses Lined Lampshades – as featured in The English Home magazine
We are very excited that not only 1 but 2 of our magnificent linen lined lampshades starred in the main feature of The English Home June edition! Thank you so much Miranda…
Designer Profile: 5 minutes with Verity Coleman
I was absolutely thrilled when Period Homes & Interiors were kind enough to interview me for their monthly Designer Profile: 5 minutes with… in their May edition (out now…
Theo Paphitis #SBS Winner!!
Every Sunday Theo Paphitis (of Dragon’s Den fame) runs a competition on Twitter called “Small Business Sunday” or #SBS. The idea is you pitch your business to Theo via a…
Bespoke Window Dressings
We’re in the middle of putting together a gallery of all our beautiful curtains and blinds. Each one is bespoke and hand sewn in our workshop in Herefordshire. Until our…
Pantone Colour(s) of the Year 2016 : Rose – Quartz
Yeah!!! I know you’re all as excited as me that Pantone Colour of the Year have announced their Colour of the Year for 2016. You are excited aren’t you?
Behind the scenes: Burdock Fox, Castle Combe
I’m absolutely thrilled to be able to show you some fabulous pictures of a wonderful project I have been working on in Castle Combe. So I thought I would give…
Photocraft Winter Scholarship Finalist
I’m thrilled to share I have been selected as a finalist for the Photocraft Winter Scholarship! But I need your help if I’m going to win! Please vote- it literally…
Beautiful gardens (for lazy gardeners)
So, the sun is shining, the birds are tweeting and everything is marvelous. Except then I looked out of the window and realised that I don’t have a garden like…
Coffee Tables. Who knew…
…that there is actually a proper way to style your coffee table. Not in terms of where to have it, or which table to choose but what goes on your…