Pink adults Halloween party drinks tray styling

Styling an adults-only Halloween party with Sainsbury’s Home

October 18, 2018

This year I’m determined to reclaim Halloween; why should the kids have all the fun? So I’ve teamed up with Sainsbury’s Home and used their excellent Halloween décor range to help me style up a scary drinks party at The Pink House, with absolutely NO kids allowed…

The Pink House’s peachy family room, decked out in fabulous Shrimps for Habitat decor

The Pink House family room reveal!

September 26, 2018

In the same way that most families have an awkward uncle, stubborn aunt or uncooperative cousin, most homes have a room that’s just plain difficult to decorate. In The Pink House’s case, this room is the Family Room…

The Pink House X Sofas & Stuff

Introducing The Pink House X Sofas & Stuff limited edition collection

June 10, 2018

It's here! I'm incredibly proud and excited to introduce The Pink House's first ever retail range, a limited edition capsule collection I designed in collaboration with my favourite sofa company, Sofas & Stuff…

Super sexy pink velvet curtains by The London Curtain Girls in The Pink House/Photo: Susie Lowe

2018: Year of the Sexy Curtain

December 17, 2017

“Our curtains are like couture for windows,” says Mary Walsh, co-founder of bespoke curtain company The London Curtain Girls, and a subscriber to the curtains-as-fabulous-home-clothing concept. Together with business partner Laragh Bohn, she made my – yes – my SEXY pink velvet curtains, and I still can’t get over how much I love them...

Never ever letting go of this wow-factor Jonathan Adler vase

The Pink House London sitting room - big festive reveal!

November 17, 2017

Amara's Kitschmas trend ticks all of my Christmas decor boxes: Pink - tick! Irreverent - tick! Luxurious - tick! Shiny and sparkly - tick! Confectionary-as-Christmas-theme - tick! This made choosing from the wide selection of decor deliciousness very difficult, as you can imagine. But choose I did...

Nicola and her famous green sofa

How I won the interior war: Nicola Broughton, The Girl With The Green Sofa

August 18, 2017

During the day, Nicola is a high-flying business woman - an investment director investing in high tech businesses - but at night/weekends she's the driving force behind The Girl With The Green Sofa...

Wendy's Enchanted Wood rug in The Pink House's living room/Photo: Susie Lowe

Choosing the right rug with Wendy Morrison

June 23, 2017

Read on for exclusive info on the inspo behind Wendy’s beautiful rug designs, plus tips on choosing the right rug for your room, decorating when you have little floorsplashers, and her next big project for John Lewis…

The Pink House's Style Room at the House & Garden Festival/Sketch by Anita Brown 3D Visualisation

How I created my House & Garden Festival Style Room

June 10, 2017

When the good people at the House & Garden Festival asked if I'd like to be one of three UK interior bloggers creating a Style Room at the event later this month, I was all, HELL YES!

Colour coded books on Stylophile's shelf

Confessions of a colour-coder (part 2)

March 11, 2017

Continuing my fascination with people who colour-code their bookshelves, I bring you part 2 in my 2-part series. This time I'm having a quick chat with interior blogger, ex-music industry professional and all-round cool person Fiona from StylophileUK...

Laurie Smith from Laurie Lee Leather's bookshelf

Confessions of a colour-coder (part 1)

February 19, 2017

Until I started this here interior blogging, I never knew a colour-coded bookshelf was a thing. Turns out, not only is it a thing, it's a very popular thing among very stylish (and witty) people.

Kitchen design: Jessica Buckley Interiors/Photo: Douglas Gibb

6 rooms that rock pink

February 10, 2017

Pink is not just for bedrooms. Or bathrooms. And it no way needs to have 'girly' or 'starve yourself' (thanks Kendall Jenner) connotations. I hope this post inspires you to add a bit more rose-tintedness to your life, whichever space you're renovating...

Erica Davies: you'd never know her home even HAD roomwreckers in residence

Me & My Roomwreckers: Erica Davies

January 7, 2017

It's time for the next instalment of Me & My Roomwreckers...this time we welcome Erica Davies, fashion, interiors and lifestyle blogger at The Edited, and her gorgeously colour-filled home in Essex.

The Pink House basement before: an ugly, oversized sofa bed, threadbare carpet and not much else

From Grot to Glamour - The Pink House Den before and after

August 18, 2016

Before the renovation, The Pink House's basement was used as a kids' playroom, with a large sofa bed for guests to sleep on. There was a threadbare carpet, dirty beige walls, and a random selection of furniture, most of which I hated.

The Pink House living room; the colour scheme was inspired by the James Hawkins painting/Photo: Susie Lowe

The Pink House Tour: Living Room

February 29, 2016

When it came to renovating The Pink House, the first job was to knock down the wall between the kitchen and living room, to make a big family room...

Amara Interior Blog Awards IBA16 Best Newcomer winner The Pink House

Winner Pinterest UK 17 Best Wow factor interior The Pink House bathroom

Best of Pinterest awards best use of colour 2017

"Fabulous family living!"

Emily Murray founder of The Pink House Living

"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 Stylist, The Guardian, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Conde Nast Traveller, Brides, and Mother & Baby. Here I am in the bricks-and-mortar Pink House in South East London, where I live with the Pink House Husband (PHH) and our two small, semi-feral boys. Our fabulous Christopher Farr 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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Last time I was here in Croyde, Devon, was about 11 years ago, with the Pink House Husband and a group of uni mates. With no one to worry about but ourselves, we surfed till we collapsed on the beach 🏄🏼‍♀️😴, headed to iconic thatched pub The Thatch for multiple Turbo Shandies (lager + Smirnoff Ice🍻🍻🍻), cheered on one of our number when he ate the lit candle on the table in its entirety 🕯, before heading ‘home’ to the nearby campsite where we drank cider before passing out in our sweaty tents ⛺️😵. I’ll be honest: I miss the desultory pre-kids days. And I also missed Croyde, this stunner of a seaside town with breathtaking views, wonderful waves and a real good-times vibe. So when @airbnb got in touch and asked if I’d like to stay in one of their Devon properties my first thought was for Croyde. But could the place that holds so many precious memories live up to expectations now we had our progeny in tow? Thanks to our accommodation, the idyllically situated Baggy Chalet, which overlooks Croyde bay from the cliffs above (this is me looking out to sea from the garden) and is owned by the delightful Jan, for whom nothing is too much trouble, the answer is an emphatic YES! Our highlights might be a little different this time round, the Turbo Shandies less plentiful, and the candles less chewed, but it’s such a privilege to reconnect with a place that means so much to me, while watching my kids grow to love it too. See Stories for some of our Croyde and Baggy Chalet highlights, and I’ll add a swipe up link to where we’re staying too in case you fancy a go of these spectacular views as well...Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend whatever you’re up to! #ad #airbnb #croyde #thepinkhouse

I’m in the process of making renovation plans for two bathrooms in my house. And it’s HARD. Bathrooms are HARD to design. And no wonder. When you think about it this is a small room in which family members need to a) relieve themselves, b) clean their bodies, c) clean their teeth, d) clean their hands, e) change the colour of their hair (just me - for now), f) style their hair (mainly the 9yo who is suddenly obsessed with using his dad’s hair products), g) remove their hair (just me - for now), h) tan themselves (just PHH*) i) dry themselves, j) have some chill-out time, k) hide from having to put the kids to bed (PHH and I both guilty)...
BUT, as we all know, the most important thing a bathroom should do is LOOK GOOD. And that is why, over on The Pink House blog (click @pinkhouseliving then click link in bio), we’ve done a round up of a few of Instagram’s best bathrooms, and how you can get the loo-k 🚽✔️. Featured bathrooms are: @annabelsmayfair (as seen here) @design_at_nineteen @oxfordone @verridepalaciosantacatarina @stig.of.the.bumpkin.dump @this_victorian_house - #bathroomgoals for dayyzzzzz! They’re sink-ly amazing! I’m flushed with excitement! 😃🤦🏼‍♀️
*This is libellous - my ginger husband has never applied fake tan although he did once let me put mascara on his eyelashes. He was very drunk. #theeasterholidaysaredrivingmemad

Fancy a spot of Sunday reading? Next up in The Pink House’s blog series where we steal the best interior design ideas from world’s coolest cities is Copenhagen. Denmark’s cool AF capital is home to the @theapartmentdk (as seen here) and loads of other seriously inspirational hotels, museums and design brands. Check out our Copenhagen edit via the link in bio ✅. And if you have any other insider knowledge on the best bits of Copenhagen for design lovers please do share them in the comments below 😊. Right - I’m off to see @michelleobama at the O2 - so excited! #hotelstylesunday #newblogpost

She’s up! I FINALLY got around to having my stunner of a @rothschildbickers pink glass pendant fitted above my hob, in lieu of a cooker hood (I don’t really cook - I just like to be able to see my cooker 😂). As you can see, I now have a few holes in the tiles and walls to patch up - what is it about jobs leading to more jobs etc etc...🙄
Another new addition to my kitchen is this blue vase which my mum gave me for my birthday (filled with the most beautiful bouquet of flowers PHH gave me as a gift). I love how the shape of it - and the grooves - mirror the shape and texture of the pink glass pendant 💗💙. As I’m planning the big renovations that will be taking place at The Pink House over the summer (assuming we can scrape the cash together in time...😅) I’m having to make LOTS of decisions about finishes, furniture and flooring, among many other things. To t keep things simple as possible and ensure it all works together I’ve decided everything I add will either be pink, blue or green (or black/grey/white but I don’t really see those as colours). Having restrictions in one area is already freeing up the creative process in others - too much choice can be incapacitating; know what I mean?
Happy Saturday evening to you all, whatever you’re up to. Emily x 💖

NEW BLOG POST! In The Pink House’s new blog series ‘How To Win At Instagram’ we ask super-successful interiors ‘grammers to share their pearls of wisdom for building followers and engagement on these here squares. First up its renter, prolific Instagrammer and all-round-lovely-person @patirobins - how gorgeous is this bedroom she designed for her teenage daughter 💚. Click link in bio for Pati’s top tips on making Instagram work for you, how to photograph small rooms and how she landed on the Insta-naughty step...😳
#newblogpost #howtowinatinstagram #rentaldecor

💞Today is the International Day of Pink, an annual anti-bullying event💞. It started in 2007 when two Canadian students saw another student, who was wearing a pink shirt, being bullied in their school, and decided to show support for that student by getting everyone at their school to wear pink the following day - like the anti-Mean Girls! 💝 As a pink lover who was bullied frequently at school, this day really resonates. It also partly helps explain my love of pink, which for me represents the joy of living life your own way, unrestricted by anyone’s expectations of what you ‘should’ be, say or do. And this in turn is why I wrote an interiors book - and started a business - which pivots around pink: I’m all about helping people to decorate their homes from the heart; to work out what makes YOU happy and use this to create an environment that makes your heart sing the moment you walk in the front door. Amazon has a spring sale on until 15 April so click the link in my bio to pick up a pink book bargain! Happy Pink Day everyone! 💝 #internationaldayofpink #pinkhouseliving #cheatingonfashionwithfurniture

#PinkPilgrimage new blog post alert! Click the link in my bio to further feast your eyes on the truly beautiful - and extremely pink - @thisiswilderness in Suffolk, to which this bathroom belongs. And yes, I am planning to create my new shower room in its image. Ob. Sessed. 💖🚽💖 Got a perfectly pink travel destination? Please tag it with #pinkpilgrimage so I - and fellow pink lovers - can check it out too 👊🏻💝#hotelstylesunday #formerly #hotelstylesaturday

Does anyone else find choosing art for their walls reeeeallllly hard? The picture ledges went up in my study here weeks ago but I couldn’t for the life of me work out what to put on them. I was at peak print panic when @desenio got in touch to ask me to work with them by picking prints from their site that would work in The Pink House. I’ll admit I was dubious - how could a website all of a sudden solve the problem of my bare walls that had been hanging over me for months? But in 29 minutes I’d found my Prints Charming - 6 of them to be precise! 🤴🏼🤴🏼🤴🏼🤴🏼🤴🏼🤴🏼
As the project was such a success and my study walls now look so wonderful I’ve a) written a blog post about the surprisingly simple print-choosing process (click link in bio), and b) teamed up with Desenio to offer you lovely Pink House Guests a special discount - my code “PINKHOUSE” gives 25% off prints* on all Desenio sites until midnight on 4 April. Follow @desenio for more inspiration. *Except for frames and handpicked/collaboration/personalised print. 💖
PRINTS from top left, clockwise: Pink Gradient Cubes; Pink Sky; Pink Dress (do you sense a theme?!)
#gallerywall #pinkprints

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Apr 17, 2019

Instagram Stalker: Bathrooms we want to soak in

Apr 17, 2019

We scoured the Instagram to bring you six of the best toilets and tubs from around the world. From people’s personal bathrooms, to bars and hotels, you won’t be short of inspiration for spicing up your wash space. Did someone say #bathroomgoals?

Apr 17, 2019

Apr 14, 2019

What Copenhagen can teach us about interior design

Apr 14, 2019

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…

Apr 14, 2019

Apr 10, 2019

How to win at Instagram: The Renter

Apr 10, 2019

In our new series ‘How to win at Instagram’ we ask super-successful Instagrammers to share their pearls of wisdom for building followers and engagement in the world of interiors ‘gramming. First up, it’s renter and prolific Instagrammer Pati Robins...

Apr 10, 2019

Apr 7, 2019

#PinkPilgrimage: The Wilderness Reserve's Farmhouse (and its gloriously pink history)

Apr 7, 2019

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…

Apr 7, 2019

Apr 4, 2019

Pink House Living in Fabric magazine

Apr 4, 2019

Thanks to Fabric Magazine for featuring me, my house and my book Pink House Living in their most recent issue. Writer Ali asked me a number of probing questions about my London home (AKA The Pink House v2), my views on how the digital world inspires my decor choices, and my favourite brands and interior finds…

Apr 4, 2019

Apr 2, 2019

How I found my Prints Charming and fell back in love with my home office

Apr 2, 2019

Sometimes the perfect brand approaches you with the perfect project at the perfect time. In this case, when I was at peak print panic, it was Desenio, the affordable art specialists, who asked if I’d like to pick some pieces from their collection to hang on The Pink House walls…

Apr 2, 2019

Mar 31, 2019

Pink House Living launches at sketch!

Mar 31, 2019

There was only one possible venue for the launch party of my first book, Pink House Living, and that was sketch in London’s Mayfair. A huge pink THANK YOU to everyone involved; it was a truly fabulous evening - here are some pics of the night…

Mar 31, 2019

Mar 26, 2019

Bo Fentum: Do you dress like you decorate?

Mar 26, 2019

When we stumbled upon Bo Fentum’s stunning house on Instagram we knew we had to find out more about the lady behind the pink and leopard print walls - and, of course, whether she dresses like she decorates…

Mar 26, 2019

Mar 24, 2019

What Marrakech can teach us about interior design

Mar 24, 2019

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…

Mar 24, 2019

Mar 19, 2019

Pink House Living, the book of the blog, is out NOW!

Mar 19, 2019

I always dreamed of writing my own book. And so, when I started The Pink House blog/business three years ago, a book was part of the plan. I felt there was a gap in the market for a beautiful, colourful interiors book that inspired its readers to create a home that made them truly happy, while making them laugh…

Mar 19, 2019