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i-on magazine Pinterest perfect home bar The Pink House

The Pink House in i-on magazine

April 18, 2016

We love a drink or five here at The Pink House. And a pretty bar cart. So we were well chuffed when the lovely folk at i-on magazine, Scotland's largest lifestyle glossy (stocked in the likes of Harvey Nicks - and if it's good enough for them...), asked us to write about what makes a Pinterest Perfect home bar.

Thanks to Kimberly Duran from the truly inspirational Swoonworthy.co.uk (seriously, check out this blog - proper interiors porn), and our very own fabulous Jessica Buckley from Jessica Buckley Interiors for their styling tips. 

Kate Spade at Amara
Kate Spade at Amara
Oliver Bonas
Oliver Bonas

Above is a pic to give you a taster, but for a proper read, click here for the May issue of i-on's online magazine (if you're in Scotland you can pick up a copy for free in one of over 800 venues, including Harvey Nichols, Mulberry, Urban Outfitters, RBS and Standard Life). Our feature is on p72, where you can read our five rules for creating a Pinterest-perfect home boozer. And keep an eye out for more fun and fabulous interiors-related features from The Pink House in future issues of i-on...

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"Fabulous family living!"

Emily Murray, founder of The Pink House

"Hello! I’m Emily Murray, founder and editor of The Pink House. I’m a lifestyle journalist who has written and edited for loads of different publications, including Glamour, Stylist, The Guardian, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Condé Nast Traveller, Brides and Mother & Baby. Here I am in the bricks-and-mortar Pink House, where I live with the Pink House Husband and our two small, semi-feral boys. Our green sofa is covered in marker pen and chocolate and the Eames rocker has a few suspicious stains. Come in and make yourself at home. No need to take your shoes off."   

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As the words across my face say, I’d love it if you would join me on Saturday 28th April at Esquire Self-Made, a one-day summit on starting a successful business 🤓. As well as me spraffing on about how The Pink House was built, the day will bring together inspiring leaders from a range of high-profile start-ups, businesses and professions for a day of empowering talks, panel discussions and networking opportunities. If you’re planning a career change this could be the best trip to SE1 you ever made...💪🏻See the link in my bio (which is the URL in this pic) for more info, including details on which business owners who are speaking, and to buy tickets. Hope to see you there! 
#selfmade #esquireselfmade
Any hotel that chooses to paint its reception room walls this stunning shade of blue, style up marble tables with mismatched velvet chairs and chuck in a few House of Hackney Artemis cushions is winning in my book. Thanks so much for having me @theprincipalhotel on Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square; I’ve loved every minute and those elderflower spritzes are the BUSINESS 🍸🙌🏻. I know I’m supposed to leave today 😭but how about I do a ‘2657 hours in Edinburgh’ Insta project instead? I’m sure the Pink House Husband won’t mind looking after the kids in London for another week or two while I drink matcha lattes at @pumpkinbrowncafe, visit the @nationalmuseumsscotland and wander past the William Street boutiques. It’s not like he has a marathon to run at the weekend or anything 🏃🏽‍♂️😅. #ad #likealocal #throughlocaleyes #24hourswithprincipal
Edinburgh is where I was born and went to school, and where I brought up my two boys until they were old enough to go to school themselves 🎓. As a result, Edinburgh Castle (seen on the skyline here) has provided a backdrop to many special moments in my life. How lucky am I?! 🍀But although I don’t live in this prettiest of cities any more, I’m still lucky enough to come back loads to visit family and friends. Edinburgh is uniquely beautiful, from its extinct urban volcano (Arthur’s Seat 🌋) and breathtaking sea views to the tiniest of ancient back alleys (known as ‘closes’, down which many an excellent bar is to be found - ref: @thedaoldtown ) and its quirky, colourful boutiques 🛍. Ok, so the weather might not always be as wonderfully sunny as it was this afternoon but actually, that’s a bonus too - if this place had Caribbean-style sunshine all the time it would be so mobbed you couldn’t move. And anyway, as we all know there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes 👠👙❌. Edinburgh is best explored on foot, so when you come here, pack some comfy shoes, a jumper and a waterproof and stay in a sexy, city-centre hotel - on this visit I’m very lucky to be a guest of @theprincipalhotel in Charlotte Square and it has everything you need for a stylish stay: beautiful interiors, delicious food and super-helpful staff. It’s also right next to George Street, one of the best shopping streets in Edinburgh (yes there’s an @anthropologieeu ✅). See my Stories for more on my 24 hour Edinburgh tour - and see if you can spot my shy and retiring mum...🙈 #ad #likealocal #throughlocaleyes #24hourswithprincipal
Check out the superb ceiling in my swanky @theprincipalhotel room in Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square 😍. I’m here in Scotland’s capital for 24 hours, sharing my favourite bits of the city I grew up in, and getting to stay in this fabulous hotel into the bargain. See my Stories for updates, including my quintessentially Scottish recipe for Caramel Wafer with Tea (the healthy eating starts again shortly...). #ad #24hourswithprincipal #likealocal #throughlocaleyes
This is my perfectly pink 40th birthday cake, made for me by the super-talented @misstrixiedrinkstea. Inside it was almond and orange (dairy free) and it tasted bloody amazing. I might have another birthday next week so I can have another of these cakes 🎂🎂. I’d also like to say a big hello 👋🏻and welcome to The Pink House to all my new followers joining from @mother_of_daughters - I promise I don’t bang on about my birthday ALL the time 🙈. Instead I CAN promise there are more kitchen reveal pics on their way, plus some new and exciting projects I’ve been working on will be announced over the next few weeks. But for now it’s time to see off the last of the party hangover with herbal tea (and Homeland, once the Pink House Husband has returned from picking up the kids at the airport; they flew from Edinburgh as unaccompanied minors for the first time with FlyBe - fingers crossed it was a success 😅🤞🏻...) #birthdaycake #pinkcake #misstrixiedrinkstea
This was taken yesterday evening at the start of my big 40th Pink House Party WHICH WAS SO BLOODY AMAZING I CAN HARDLY DESCRIBE IT! 🍾🍾🍾🍣🍤🥑🍠🍔🍓🐖🥂💖🎂🦏🦓🎸👩🏻‍🎤💃🕺🏼👯‍♀️💅🎉I managed to lose my phone for most of the evening due to excessive pink champagne consumption so all the pics I have were captured during the party set up - I’ll share a few over on Stories. I’m too hungover to be eloquent right now, 🤢🤕but I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to a few people who helped make the party such a success: incredible private chef @laurahaworth (seriously if you live in London and need a party catered this lady not only makes THE most delicious food she also hires the loveliest staff for whom nothing - including late night cups of tea - is too much trouble 🥂☕️; my super-lovely hairdresser and friend @katcutsme who gave me this rock chick ‘do’ for the night 👩🏻‍🎤; @hayfordandrhodesflowers who made the exquisite flower crowns for my zebra and rhino heads, plus flower decorations for my pink neon ‘play’ sign 🌸🦓🦏💖. Speaking of pink neon, massive thanks also to @bagandbones for lending me the epic ‘Why the fuck can’t I have fun all the time’ Kate Moss quote sign which set the tone for the night just perfectly. Then there’s @misstrixiedrinkstea who made me such a stunning pink cake which tasted as good as it looked (I’ll share a pic of it on my feed later today). Big thanks to @herringbonekitchens for getting my kitchen party-ready to a tight deadline. And of course to all my pink-as-fuck guests, with special shout out to @susielowephoto and @leilappetit who came all the way from Edinburgh. Finally, to the ever-tolerant Pink House Husband, without whom none of this would have happened (and who bought me these beautiful @chloe boots that I’ve been lusting after for 10 years). Right, better start planning my 50th... 📷: @laurieleeleather #gwynethspeech #40thbirthdayparty #birthdaygirl #hashtagblessed #pinkasfuck
This is why I wanted a marble kitchen worktop: so I could do flatlays of the flower arrangements created especially by @hayfordandrhodesflowers to adorn my pink neon ‘play’ sign for my 40th birthday party (theme: Pink as Fuck). Bucket list item no. 362: ✔️ Once the flowers are wired to the sign I’ll share a shot of that too. And check out my Stories to see the flower crowns that have been designed to decorate my zebra and rhino trophy heads. Next. Level. Fabulousness. 🦏🦓🌸👑🌸 #flowerflatlay #pinkhouseparty #40thbirthdayparty
Introducing the newest addition(s) to The Pink House: these gorgeous green-and-white @bertandmay Alalpardo encaustic tiles, expertly fitted to my kitchen wall by the excellent @herringbonekitchens 💚. Today is the second day of my fifth decade and apart from feeling a little shaky from last night’s boozefestival birthday dinner I’m raring to go! Allegations that my current burst of energy originated in the Cadbury’s Heroes box are unconfirmed 🙊. Now I have 2 days to get the dust-covered house (and myself) back in shape for the big Pink House Party at the weekend. Right after I’ve finished off that bottle of champagne - can’t have it going flat now can I?! 🍾 Finally can I just say a HUGE thank you for all the wonderful birthday messages I’ve been sent. I haven’t had much time to reply but I’ve read them all and you’re all bloody brilliant. Big pink love 💖 #healthkickstartsagainonsunday #pinkhouserenovations #pinkhousedesigns #ihavethisthingwithtiles
Ain’t nobody got time for BEING IN MY THIRTIES ANY MORE! Yup - I’m 40 today and I feel bloody great! 🤸🏼‍♀️ I also feel/look nothing like what my 7-year-old self thought being 40 involved. I’ve got pink hair for a start 👩🏻‍🎤 (the 7yo me would be so proud); I can still do a backflip🤸🏼‍♀️; I’m the same dress size as I was in my twenties👗; I don’t wear shapeless, sludge-coloured clothes🚫; I write about colourful interiors for a living🖌🛋; I own about 15 pairs of trainers, including these silver ones with stars on them ✨and a colourful leopard print pair with pink laces🐆🎨 (hats off to you @dlam_by_zdp x @airandgrace 🎩); I can still do plenty of proper press-ups, sit-ups and burpees💪🏻; I have all my own teeth 😬; I listen to Radio 1 🎼 (though Absolute Radio 90s is my current fave); I own a pink neon sign, a pink-and-gold skateboard (Kateboard) with a picture of our future queen on it 👑and a cross-stitch cushion bearing a down-with-the-kids slogan🤘🏻. If this is 40, I say BRING IT THE FUCK ON! 🎉Pink champagne for everyone 🍾: here’s to the fabulous Forties and doing a decade your own way! Right, I’m off rock climbing with the family, followed by lunch at the Shard...getting high on life! 🧗‍♀️Photo: @janelookerphotography #onlywayisup #baby #40thbirthday #🍾
THEY’RE HERE! 🙌🏻 The final piece of the kitchen puzzle, my gorgeous @bertandmay encaustic Alalpardo tiles, arrived at The Pink House this afternoon 💚. These will be fitted on the back wall of my kitchen (on the right hand side of this pic) by the excellent @herringbonekitchens this week, just in time for my big 40th birthday Pink House Party this weekend. Woooooop! 🎉🎂🍾
Right, I’m off out to a film screening - wishing you all a lovely evening 😘 #pinkhouserenovations #pinkhousedesigns #colourmyhome

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