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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✨FAUX FUR AND DIAMONDS ✨I might live in London now (here I am hanging with the skater bois at the Southbank skate park), but I’m an Edinburgh girl born and bred. And like so many other Edinburgh lasses (or ‘aw fur coat nae knickers’ as the Glaswegians like to call us 😳), I used to love accompanying my mum into luxury jewellers @hamiltoninches magical George Street store. I was in awe of the sense of history I felt – Hamilton & Inches was established in 1866 and have been holders of the Royal Warrant for over 120 years – and would gaze in reverence at the timeless, exquisite jewellery. Which is why, when my wonderful grandmother left me a beautiful citrine stone in her will a few years ago, I went straight to Hamilton & Inches who reset it in gold so beautifully, so sympathetically, that it did not only the stone, but her memory, justice. So I’m incredibly proud to be working with H&I and wearing this drop-dead-gorgeous dewdrop diamond millgrain necklet in rose gold from their collection by @fope_gioielli . For more info on the Fope dewdrop collection, and a closer look at the jewellery of dreams (you didn’t need my 40-year-old face any closer to the camera 😂) head to the @hamiltoninches website and search ‘dewdrop’. Then start paging* Santa, pronto! 🎅🏼
*does anyone outside the medical profession actually even own a pager anymore? #AD #myhi #cherishandinspire #fopejewels

One of the things I love most about running The Pink House is working with incredibly talented creatives who are passionate about what they do. Such as the fabulous florist @hayfordandrhodesflowers who are responsible for these beautiful blooms in my Christmas sitting room mantel scene from last year, which also happened to appear in last week’s @graziauk 😊. This year’s festive mantel is a work in progress (to be revealed next weekend) but if you fancy a bit of @hayfordandrhodesflowers in your life before that then skip back 2 posts for the AMAZING competition I’m running with them (which includes a gold teapot necklace from @alexmonroejewellery - I KNOW!) - you have until Sunday to enter. Happy evening everyone! 💖😘 Photo: @susielowephoto #tbt #pinkchristmas

Do you remember the days when getting dressed was the best part of a festive night out? 👗👘👙Those leisurely hours spent drinking cheap wine with Radio 1 turned up LOUD, while you tried on every sparkly outfit you owned? ✨🍷✨No; me either - it’s all lost in the distant pre-kids fog. Now, assuming the babysitter hasn’t cancelled, my Christmas get-dressed routine consists of 5 minutes during which I simultaneously screech instructions to the hapless sitter (“Seven thirty - eight at the ABSOLUTE LATEST! AND SORRY ABOUT THE FRIDGE!”) while inhaling a bowl of cereal and dabbing unidentifiable smegma off this year's solitary going-out dress. But while I may be missing out on dressing MYSELF as I would like, I’ll be damned if I’ll let the kids ruin my rituals when it comes to dressing the Christmas tree. And so I’m proud to present this year’s ‘grown-up Christmas tree’, which I decorated leisurely over a glass of sherry while the kids were at school #sorrynotsorry. Look how I was able to stick to a creative concept (pink at the top, fading through blue to green at the bottom; an ombre rainbow, if you will) without the children screeching about their hideo...sorry; ‘delightful’ home-made decor not getting a look-in. With grateful thanks to @houseoffraser for providing such a gorgeous selection of beautifully bright decor so my tree could get luxuriously dressed. What are your thoughts on tree decoration - do you let your kids get involved? Or do you prefer a less, er, collaborative approach? 😅 #AD #houseoffraser #overtoours #cheatingonfashionwithfurniture

It’s the first of December. You may now officially crack on with Christmas 🎄👍🏻. Now we’re on the subject this pink ghetto blaster tree decoration is a timely reminder by @w.a.greenlondon that the 1980s did Christmas better than any other decade. That pink is the best Christmas colour clearly goes without saying. Though of course I DID say it - see three posts back 😂 #sorrynotsorry #80schristmas #pinkchristmas #ghettoblaster #cheatingonfashionwithfurniture #thepinkhouse

If anyone’s looking for me I’m hiding from the mayhem that is kids’ bedtime in my home office. If the Pink House Husband asks, I’m ‘working really hard’ on a ‘very important job’ and I’m definitely NOT ‘faffing about on Instagram’. See Stories for direct links to my latest picks from the lovely @riverisland Home collection (black ceramic vase, natural agate book ends, gold leopard) 📷: @megantaylorphoto #ad #rihome #cheatingonfashionwithfurniture #thepinkhouse

Although I firmly believe there’s no such thing as the ‘wrong’ colour combination, sometimes it can take a while to find the perfect colour combo for your own room. Take my sitting room for example. I have a rough colour scheme of blue, pink and green going on in here, though felt that perhaps more green was needed to match the emerald in my @christopherfarrcloth Carnival-covered sofa (just seen on the right of this pic). So when Zoe from luxecyclers-to-the-stars @mucknbrass asked what colour I wanted my vintage corner drinks cabinet to be painted I chose green, with gold trim. But although it looks really good I’ve never been sure it was quite the right hue for this space. But what was? PINK of course 🤦🏼‍♀️. So yesterday Zoe came round and collected the cabinet and I gave her a fabric sample of the pink/purple velvet footstool for colour matching - can’t wait to see how it’s going to look - watch this space! 💖💖💖 Photo: @megantaylorphoto #ihavethisthingwithpink #ijustforgotthatmomentarily

The day I realised I could ditch the traditional Christmas red and green in favour of pink and green was a truly liberating one 💖🎄💡. Not only did it mean I got into festive decor like never before, it also helped me realise I could chuck out a few more seasonal traditions that didn’t suit me...Slaving over an undercooked turkey? I’d rather head to a hotel for my Christmas Day feast 🦃❌. Struggling to find a babysitter for an overpriced night out on 31 Dec? Have a New Year’s Eve Eve party on the 30th instead. 👶❌ Fed up with the freezing conditions? Head to South Africa ❄️❌ (I wish!)
If you’re also dreaming of a pink (or multicoloured, non-trad) Christmas, I’d highly recommend @houseoffraser who has everything you could possibly need for fabulous festive decor, including these glitter flamingos and baubles, this pink star tree topper and an actual pink Christmas tree. I’ve added links on my Stories. #ad #overtoours

Last night I hung out with the fabulous force of nature that is Lady @zoepocockofficial - a truly inspiration woman (and a bona fide Lady!) who always leaves me feeling determined to be the very me-est version of me I can possibly be. It’s like the wise poet Mr C Hawkes once expressed so eloquently: “I am the one and only,” he declared to anyone who would listen. “Ain’t nobody I’d rather be.” 🙌🏻 Life is FAR TOO BLOODY SHORT to be the person you think you’re ‘supposed’ to be. And this is a philosophy I also try to apply to interior design - including this dining room I designed for @oka : go with your gut. Pick things that make your heart sing Mr C’s greatest (only) hit. Embrace what you love and use your home to show it off. 💖 For more on the inspiration behind this room, plus tips on setting up a party-ready space and creating a gorgeous home despite the kids, click link in bio for my Q&A with OKA for their blog 💃. So come on then weekend - let’s be having you! 📷: @therealnickpope #ad #myokahome #cheatingonfashionwithfurniture

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