Walls in Nancy’s Blushes by Farrow & Ball/ Photo: from Farrow & Ball How to Decorate by Joa Studholme & Charlotte Cosby, Mitchell Beazley 2016

How to choose the perfect pink paint

May 1, 2019

Want to paint the town - or at least a room - pink, but struggling to find the perfect shade? The Pink House is here to help! We caught up with Charlotte Crosby, Head of Creative at Farrow & Ball, and Annie Sloan, queen of chalk paint, to get their top tips for using pink in your home, whatever vibe you’re trying to achieve…

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...

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

Amara Interior Blog Awards IBA16 Best Newcomer winner The Pink House

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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🔨It’s official! Pink House renovations are GO! 🔨Yup, we’ve hired the excellent @andrewpenny_london and on 15th July they will start work to knock down walls, insert mahoosive big bits of (pink) steel and create a gorgeous big hallway with views from the front door to the woodland behind the house; bright, light family room; new (and extremely pink) shower room; and new utility room. Plus some new bike storage in the garden. It’s happening! 💖🔨💖
This here is my study on the 1st floor of the house which will become our makeshift kitchen for the duration of the works. Any advice on what we should put in here from anyone who has been through the live-in renovation process would be much appreciated. I’m thinking a microwave, fridge, kettle, multipacks of pot noodle and as much prosecco as we can fit on the shelves should do it yeah? More on Stories, as well as some shocking news involving the Pink House Husband.
p.s. That pink-and-gold skateboard you see in the wall is actually a Kateboard by Grayson Perry - it features the Duchess of Cambridge with a baby in her belly 🛹 👶
Photo: @susielowestudio #pinkhouserenovations

#AD As a 1980s kid, when I was asked the question: ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ my answer was often: ‘Challenge Anneka!’ 💙💛. So when @homesense_ukie challenged me to ‘transform your dining space into a Mediterranean-themed dining space for under £100’, I donned my blue-and-yellow jumpsuit, jumped in my helicopter (family Volvo) and headed straight for my local Homesense store as fast as lightening (within the speed limit)🏃🏼‍♀️⚡️. And here are the results - swipe for mini-video of my finished table 🍽🌿🌸. As you can see, I decided to do Mediterranean with a Pink House twist (clay pots and earthy tones aren’t really my jam). So I layered lush leafy bowls with sea-blue ceramic plates, and added sunny gold cutlery, pink sea salt and juicy green olives in tiny tapas bowls, a textured cotton table cloth and pretty pink-and-gold wine glasses just waiting for the perfect Provence rose.
Keeping to my budget was no problem either. Not surprising seeing as Homesense is part of the TK Maxx family and as such is the perfect place to unearth bargainous home decor treasures (up to 60% less than the RRP on a wide range of brands). Plus it was a whole lot of fun - I KNEW Anneka was onto something!
If you’d like to know more about how I created this look, or if you have any questions on how to style your table for a summer soirée, head to my Stories where I’m hosting a Q&A.
Right, I’m off to trade in my family car - anyone got a helicopter for sale?
#lovehomesense #treasureseeker #challengeemily

[AD/gift] To paraphrase Prince: “Pink rain, piiink rain 🎤”. It’s gotta be said: having a @bramwellbrown weather clock that turns pink when there’s a downpour in progress (or pending) makes a rainy June a whole lot more enjoyable! 💖
Yes, that is a covered BBQ outside the window. And no, it hasn’t been uncovered since February’s heatwave 😒. But sunnier weather appears to be on the horizon (according to BBC weather, not this clock), though I’m hoping to go via thunderstorms so my clock can show me some more of its funky lightning graphic ⛈. FYI: Bramwell Brown weather clocks have a barometric air pressure sensor at their core that measures the atmospheric air pressure every half hour. Basically, if the air pressure rises the clock will forecast sunnier weather, and if it falls it will forecast rain. This particular clock (swipe for close-up) is a limited edition design by artist @benjamincraven_ ☀️🌦🌧🌩. #pinkrain

BEFORE/AFTER (both snapped on my iPhone). As I’m about to embark on the next stage of The Pink House’s renovations 😅, I find it helps to remind myself how far we’ve already come. Although I’ve never really been properly happy with the layout and design of this, our family room, it’s good to see that I am at least moving in the right direction. In fact, the After photo here is my new Before, because this room is part of the renovation project - the end result will look more different from this After pic, than this After pic looks compared to this Before shot. If you see what I mean?! Not only will the door to the room be blocked off, it will be a slightly different (bigger) shape, and will boast some beautiful internal steel framed windows and an entirely new colour scheme. And lots more besides! It’s not a big space but it works hard as the place where my boys spend most of their time when they’re inside (which may have something to do with the fact that the PlayStation lives here ⚽️...). Right, I’m off to catch up on Love Island while PHH is taking the kids swimming...💦 #guiltypleasures

This is the Pink House Husband’s side of our bed. His bedside table is usually filled with copies of the Economist, a book about the imminent death of the world/why humans are fucked (current reading: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari), fusty foreign currency, some hayfever tablets and a loo roll. The reason it doesn’t look like that right now is because this shot was taken by @susielowestudio as part of the shoot for my book Pink House Living, during which time all PHH’s unattractive paraphernalia was banished to the spare room, where it skulked alongside the stacks of pictures we’ve never gotten around to hanging. One day we’ll get round to renovating the spare room, but first I’m putting the final touches to my 9yo’s ‘Urban Jungle’ room (the incredible pendant lamp arrived today) which Susie will be photographing next week and which I can’t WAIT to show you. I think I might even like it more than my own room. Perhaps he’ll consider a swap - I quite love the idea of having a room entirely to myself without someone else’s books of doom and toilet paper on the other side of the bed...🧻
CREDITS: Chest of drawers, @grahamandgreen; Carpet, @alternativeflooring; Bed, made bespoke by @hypnosbeds ; Bed linen @chalkpinklinencompany ; Paint, @farrowandball (all #gifted); neon lightning bolt, borrowed for the shoot from @bagandbones ; Cheetah lampstand and lampshade, @houseofhackney

Why sit on a flower-shrouded bench when you could dangle joyously a foot above it? And this, my lovely Pink House Guests, pretty much sums up my approach to life. I believe we should:
Walk on that wall.
Wear those sequins.
Paint that wall pink.
Sing out loud.
Eat the ice cream.
Down that shot.
Climb the mountain.
Book that flight.
Cartwheel on the beach.
Dance in the kitchen.
Roll down the hill.
Grab life by the scruff of the neck and give zero fucks about what anyone thinks.
And I’m not just saying all this because I’ve drink most of a tequila-based cocktail (other ingredients: chilli, coriander, lime, agave - it’s called a Picante de la Casa and it’s one of my faves) while waiting for my mate. Honestly.
Here’s to making the most of our life - it’s the only one we’ve got! 📷: taken in the terrace at @fslondon which is highly recommended for fancy summer drinking. As soon as the bloody rain stops. Although, champagne in the rain could be fun, right?! 🥂 #carpefuckingdiem #buythetickettaketheride (right @housecurious 😉) #flowerdangle #pinkhouseliving

✨NEW BLOG POST ✨Need help buying vintage furniture? Me too. That’s why the latest Pink House blog post is called: ‘How to buy vintage furniture (that doesn’t smell of cats)’ and why it features interviews with vintage-buying experts from @sohohouse (how gorgeous are these vintage pieces in Soho House New York 😍), @theoldcinemalondon and @vinterioruk. Hit @pinkhouseliving then click link in bio to have a read... .
#howivintage #vintagefurniture #vintageshopping #vintagefinds #sohohouse #sohohousenewyork #newblogpost #thepinkhouse

This weekend the Pink House Husband has taken the kids to his home town of Hawick to join in with their annual horse-based festival called the Common Riding. So this morning, to distract myself from the fact that I’m not sat with whining children in a sodden gazebo in the middle of a rain-drenched Scottish racecourse 🎉, I cracked on with some styling work for a client, which segued happily into faffing around with a few new bits of decor that recently arrived - swipe for a close-up of the girl-with-pink-hair candlestick which @rockettstgeorge.co.uk recently sent me as an unexpected #gift, which PHH hates as much as you’d expect, and which I am fully in love with. Right, I’m off to watch Channjng Tatum in Step Up while drinking a can of pink wine in the middle of the afternoon BECAUSE I CAN. Happy Saturday everyone! 💖 #thekidsareawaysoillwatchchanningallday #thepinkhouse

Doesn’t it give you a warm, fuzzy feeling when you matchmake the perfect decor with its perfect room? When I unwrapped the package from @romo_fabrics containing the velvet seat pads and cushions I’d chosen especially for the space (see pics - have a swipe), it was as though my kitchen came over all Jerry Maguire: “You complete me,” it seemed to swoon. The cushions had definitely read the script - they replied coquettishly in a Zellwegeresque tone: “You had me at hello!” I’ve never ignited such a successful room romance. As Cilla used to say, I’d better buy meself a new hat! 👒 💒
CREDITS:
I’ll add links in my Stories to the lush @romo_fabrics Japura Velvet Amazonite palm print cushions, as well as the gorgeous Kamakura Indigo fabric used to make the seat pads for my bar stools. To be clear: the Japura cushions are readymade by Romo and can be bought as such. My seat pads were especially made for my stools but you can buy the exact same Kamakura velvet fabric (or choose a different colourway) and use it for your own room-romance projects and purposes.
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#AD #romo #romofabrics

If you want to sell your house you should paint it white, right?! Not necessarily, as you’ll discover in The Pink House’s latest blog post, ‘Is a colourful home harder to sell?’ - click @pinkhouseliving then click link in bio to have a read. We ask expert Rosie Falcon from online estate agent @themodernhouse for her tips on getting the best price for our property when it’s time to sell it, while creating a home we love to live in right now.
PHOTO of my definitely-not-blank-canvas dining room: @susielowestudio as part of the shoot for my book Pink House Living 💖 #newblogpost #sellingyourhome

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Jun 26, 2019

#PinkPilgrimage to California

Jun 26, 2019

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…

Jun 26, 2019

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The Greatest Home On Earth

Jun 23, 2019

Stripes, sequins, candy floss and friendly elephants - what’s not to love about the Big Top? Here are The Pink House’s favourite circus-themed interiors to help make yours…(cue Hugh Jackman voice…) THE GREATEST HOME ON EARTH!

Jun 23, 2019

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The rules of renovating a rental property

Jun 19, 2019

You’ve just moved into your brand new rented home, a blank canvas of white walls and cream carpets. You’re excited to make the place feel like home. But wait. What are the rules here? Are you allowed to paint the walls? Are pictures okay? Is blu-tac more annoying than banging a hole in the wall? Can the curtains come down? Can new shelves go up…?

Jun 19, 2019

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Everything you need to know about London’s hot new women’s members club (yes, the interiors are perfection)

Jun 16, 2019

The Wing is a female only workspace – but much more than this, it empowers women to achieve in their careers and partners with non-profits to support the advancement of marginalised women and girls. It’s even been called a ‘millennial-meets-suffragette’ space…

Jun 16, 2019

Jun 12, 2019

Spice Up Your Life: inside the iconic Spice Bus

Jun 12, 2019

It’s official: 2019 is the year Spice Girls-aissance. First Ginger, Scary, Sporty and Baby (Posh who?) announced their comeback tour. Then we found out you can legitimately stay the night in The Spice Bus. Here’s a sneaky look at the Spice Bus’ hallowed interiors. And yes, there’s a pink Girl Power neon sign, because of course there is…

Jun 12, 2019

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How to buy vintage furniture (that doesn't smell of cats) with Soho Home, Vinterior and The Old Cinema

Jun 9, 2019

I have a shameful interiors secret. It’s taken me a little while to admit it, but I’m just not *whisper it* very good at vintage. So I’ve deferred to the vintage experts at Soho House, The Old Cinema and Vinterior to get their top tips on vintage furniture shopping…

Jun 9, 2019

Jun 5, 2019

Forget the bikinis and six-packs – we rate Love Island's interiors

Jun 5, 2019

Love Island is back, but we’re less interested in analysing the Pantone shade of the contestants’ tans (somewhere between Mango Tango and Atomic Tangerine) and more about rating the rooms inside the new villa out of 10. So pour yourself a tequila sunrise, put on your teensiest swimwear and decide if these interiors are 100% your type on paper…

Jun 5, 2019

Jun 2, 2019

Is a colourful home harder to sell?

Jun 2, 2019

We asked Rosie Falcon, Director of Home Sales at The Modern House, whether it’s easier to sell a minimalist beige house than a maximalist colourful one, for her quick wins to add £££ to your house price and whether we really do need to paint over our leopard print ceiling when it’s time to list the property…

Jun 2, 2019

May 26, 2019

How to use Pinterest to drive 3x the traffic to your blog

May 26, 2019

Pinterest, eh? We interior bloggers can get all excited about the room renovation possibilities, pinning hundreds of images of brass taps and tiled hallways, then promptly forget all about it for weeks. But the truth is, Pinterest is one of the most important tools out there for driving traffic to your blog and as such should be part of your regular social media strategy. It’s wayyyy more fun than it sounds, promise…

May 26, 2019

May 19, 2019

Interior ideas to steal from Bella Freud’s £3.8m BBC building apartment

May 19, 2019

Bella Freud’s knitwear is instantly recognisable and effortlessly chic, transforming a chilly day into a bright one with a swift injection of her signature playful style. So when we heard she’d designed an apartment in the newly renovated Television Centre – also home to the utterly fabulous White City Soho House – we had to take a snoop around…

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