Wendy Morrison Design 'Mount Orient' rug in The Pink House/Photo: Susie Lowe
One day I was flicking through Livingetc when I realised the one thing uniting most of my favourite spaces was the combo of a dark-ish background and brightly coloured furnishings and fabrics. A lightbulb moment: maybe the key to cosy was the colour of my room?
Read MoreCake by Primrose Bakery
It's The Pink House's 1st Birthday! To celebrate our incredible first year, we are giving away this ridiculously beautiful Sofas & Stuff armchair, upholstered in pink Designers Guild velvet...
Read MorePrepping for a Little Yellow Couch podcast on a Big Green Sofa/Photo: Katie Lee
This week the fabulous ladies from Little Yellow Couch popped my podcast cherry 🍒 (despite my own couch being both green and rather large) - have a listen, at the bottom of this post...
Read MoreDesign Sponge is that rare beast: a site about interiors and design, which has real soul and character - masses of credit to founder Grace Bonney for featuring homes belonging to people you really want to get to know.
Read MorePHH and I: compromise is a 'c' word/Photo: Andrea Thomson
The Pink House Husband and I always talk about adding to our art collection, but life, Netflix and a complete inability to agree tend to get in the way. Not this time though!
Read MoreThe Pink House Den, as seen on A Beautiful Mess/Photo: Susie Lowe
A Beautiful Mess is, by its own admission, 'a lifestyle company focused on creating happiness through a homemade lifestyle'. Now, anyone who knows me will be aware that, although I can fold an origami animal or two, my lifestyle isn't exactly what you'd call 'homemade'...
Read MoreTinselling over the cracks
Then and there I swore to myself (and to the Pink House Husband, but he had his headphones on listening to Have I Got News For You on his laptop) that I would STOP with this blogger Christmas nonsense and let the kids decorate the tree. Hell, how bad could it be?
Read MoreThe Pink House, as seen on Apartment Therapy/Photo: Susie Lowe
Being featured on Apartment Therapy is nearly as good as that time when I found a solid chocolate United biscuit - you remember; the amazing ones that could be broken into three pieces and had little honeycomb pieces in the chocolate, and then biscuit in the middle...?
Read MoreWendy Morrison Design's Govind rug in The Pink House's Den/Photo: Susie Lowe
Rugs have always loomed (sorry) large in my life. My mum has always had a soft spot for rugs, and as a result I grew up in houses which were old, draughty and half-finished, but always with beautiful, fascinating rugs from around the world...
Read MoreA Pumpkin Brown raw food pudding from The Pink House Party/Photo: Susie Lowe
I always planned to have a big Pink House Party in Edinburgh, but I hadn't realised quite HOW big it was going to be...
Read MoreMy favourite mugs, Pink House Husband not included
It’s safe to say tea is kind of a big deal in The Pink House. I would estimate that, on a typical work-from-home weekday, about 10 milky cups of the stuff are consumed between myself and the Pink House Husband...
Read MoreI'm not going to lie: the fact that The Pink House was treated to a four-page feature in Grazia this month was pretty exciting. Here are Susie Lowe's fabulous 'Pink House home tour' photos from the shoot...
Read MoreThe Pink House: tidiness is an illusion/Photo: Susie Lowe
What you see in those oh-so-perfect home tour pics is a loooong way from reality. Here, for the record, is what actually happens on magazine photoshoots…
Read MorePink House Husband, his errant wife, and a morsel of banana/Photo: Andrea Thomson
Last week, when PHH objected to my latest cushion acquisition, I had a lightbulb moment. Instead of ignoring/arguing with his interior design-based complaints, perhaps it was time to let him HAVE HIS OWN WAY...
Read MoreThe Pink House basement before: an ugly, oversized sofa bed, threadbare carpet and not much else
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.
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