Of all the parenting magazines out there, Smallish is definitely my favourite. Not only is it completely gorgeous, but it also understands that just because we've pushed out a small human or two, doesn't mean we stop being people ourselves. We might have become mothers, but we still have our own lives as well as - gasp! - a sense of style.
Another reason I love Smallish is because they let me write a feature for them. In fact, this feature - 'How My Home Became a Hotel', as published in last month's July 2016 issue - is also the story of how The Pink House came into existence. You can have a read below...
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This half term, determined to do something to counteract the Year of Doom, I decide a spoiler of a family staycation is in order. As luck would have it, I discover Football Escapes is running a staycation at The Grove, the exact same gorgeous Hertfordshire hotel where I got engaged to the Pink House Husband 15 years ago…
Airbnb’s come a long way from blow up mattresses on a stranger’s creaking wooden floor. With its recent acquisition of Luxury Retreats, the home rental service has thrown on a tux and entered the world of glamour with Airbnb Luxe. The villas, castles, kasbahs and private islands on offer all have one thing in common – they are luxury epitomised…
The Pink House *loves* the unabashed luxury of a hotel suite, so we decided to round-up a few of our favourites, looking at exactly what makes them so fabulous. Now you can feel like champagne room service is just a phone call away (even if the reality is more like a mug of Earl Grey)…
You might have noticed from the Pink House Instagram that the list of pink places on our bucket list (it’s pronounced ‘bouquet list’, of course) is growing ridiculously long. So in the interest of getting organised, we’ve decided to create pink travel guides for our favourite places. They’re like regular travel guides, but read through rose-tinted glasses…
In our new travel feature ‘Extra Extra!’ (in which you can indeed read all about it), we’re travelling the world looking for the most out-there hotels; the ones that really push the boundaries of design, style and taste. Up first, it’s Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve.
Next up in our series of looking at how some of the world’s loveliest places can help improve our homes is Denmark’s cool AF capital city. And that’s because Copenhagen (and its gorgeous inhabitants) seems to possess a certain effortlessness, a chic-ness, a… ‘je ne sais Copenhagen’, that we mere mortals can only marvel at…
One of the oldest buildings on beautifully restored 19th century manor estate The Wilderness Reserve is the Suffolk Farmhouse, designed with pink hues throughout, and home to quite possibly the most beautiful bathroom we’ve ever seen. As part of The Pink House’s ongoing #pinkpilgrimage we caught up with The Farmhouse’s interiors team to find out more…
Here at The Pink House, our social media scrolling is made up of 50% beautiful interiors and 45% fantasy bucket list travel destinations (the rest is a heady mix of animals sneezing and Gemma Collins memes, but that’s probably just us). With our new series of blog posts we decided to combine the two, casting a shrewd interiors eye over our favourite travel destinations to pinch the bits we love best…
One of London’s hottest new openings of 2019, Vintry & Mercer has made it onto The Pink House’s (highly discerning) hotel radar. Snuggled into the heart of the City, and surrounded by sparkling views of the Thames, this hotel’s gorgeous interiors are inspired by the area’s luxurious history of wine and silk merchants…
LOVE BRAND & Co. have just launched their very first women’s collection (the brand previously focused on effortlessly chic beachwear for men and kids) – and it was love at first sight when I saw the stylish range.