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If The Pink House had a hotel…

If The Pink House had a hotel…

#PinkPilgrimage to California

June 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…

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In Travel Tags Pink Pilgrimage, Travel, travel, Luxury travel, america, Hotel, Boutique hotel, Pink and green, palm tree
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Image via Posh Frocks & Wellies Pinterest

Image via Posh Frocks & Wellies Pinterest

The Greatest Home On Earth

June 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!

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In Shopping Tags shopping, Shopping, circus, Cushions, cushion, wallpaper, Wallpaper
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Paper Collective Amelie Hegardt Dancer, £45 from Selfridges

Paper Collective Amelie Hegardt Dancer, £45 from Selfridges

The rules of renovating a rental property

June 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…?

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In Expert Advice Tags Expert Advice, Ask The Expert, Expert, renting, Decor rules, Home decor, Interior design, interior design
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Look. At. Those. Tiles.

Look. At. Those. Tiles.

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

June 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…

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In Interiors Tags Membership club, Women in business, pink, Pink
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The iconic five: Sporty, Scary, Baby, Ginger and Bus.

The iconic five: Sporty, Scary, Baby, Ginger and Bus.

Spice Up Your Life: inside the iconic Spice Bus

June 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…

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In Home Tours Tags Home tour, Home decor, home decor, Neon, neon picture, Music
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Soho Home sprinkles aesthetic fairy dust over the humble velvet armchair

Soho Home sprinkles aesthetic fairy dust over the humble velvet armchair

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

June 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…

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In Expert Advice Tags Vintage, Expert, shopping, Shopping, furniture
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Are you ready, are you ready for love?

Are you ready, are you ready for love?

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

June 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…

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In Opinion Tags television, holiday, pop culture
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Eagle Mansions, sold by The Modern House, proves a pink wall can add desirability

Eagle Mansions, sold by The Modern House, proves a pink wall can add desirability

Is a colourful home harder to sell?

June 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…

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In Expert Advice Tags Buying a house, selling a house, Interior design
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How to use Pinterest to drive traffic to your blog

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…

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In Expert Advice Tags How to, pinterest, social media, Expert Advice, Blogging, Interior blogger
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Avocado and raffia have combined to form a super group

Avocado and raffia have combined to form a super group

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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In Home Tours, Shopping Tags Home tour, Home decor, shopping, Art, Fashion
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Fifty Shades of Green – the more calming, interiors-based sequel

Fifty Shades of Green – the more calming, interiors-based sequel

How to win at Instagram: The Side Hustle

May 15, 2019

Nicola Broughton, better known as the wildly successful @the_girl_with_the_green_sofa makes the rest of us look like slackers. We spoke to her about juggling her online life with the real world, as well as the magical unicorn of Instagram – actually making hard cash from your profile…

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In Expert Advice Tags Instagram, Girl With The Green Sofa, Content, Maximalism, Made.com
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Pink House Living in Luxury Edinburgh

May 13, 2019

Jane Mackay, the journalist who wrote this feature in Luxury Edinburgh (a glossy magazine published by The Herald), actually took the time to come to my Edinburgh book launch at The Principal Hotel in Edinburgh’s George Street, and interview me in real life…

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In Press Tags Pink House Living book, Edinburgh, Farrow & Ball, Coloured houses, Influencer, Pink hair, pink, Pink
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3D image of The Pink House, complete with the pink steel extension we’ve received planning permission for

3D image of The Pink House, complete with the pink steel extension we’ve received planning permission for

Revealed! The Pink House's big renovation project

May 12, 2019

A few months ago, when I told a neighbour we were applying for planning permission to erect a pink steel structure at the front of our house, she just laughed: “In Lewisham? You’ll be lucky!” But we DID get lucky, and ours was given the go ahead just last week. Hooray! Break out the pink champagne!

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In Inside The Pink House Tags Renovation, Building work, Planning permission, Planning a room, Pink, Loud Architects, London
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Painting the town pink, room-by-room

Painting the town pink, room-by-room

In the Pink: 11 pieces to pink up your pad

May 8, 2019

Here at The Pink House, we unabashedly LOVE pink and everything it denotes – irreverence, playfulness, flirtation and yes, an unabashed celebration of the feminine (whatever gender you are). So we rustled up The Pink House’s most on-brand shopping edit ever. Here are 11 perfect pieces to pink up your pad…

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In Shopping Tags shopping, Shopping, pink, Pink, homewares, wallpaper, Wallpaper, Affordable art
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Just look at that drinks trolley…

Just look at that drinks trolley…

How to win at Instagram: The Retailer

May 5, 2019

We chatted to Shelley Carline, owner of amazing interiors shop (and Instagram account) Hilary & Flo. Shelley spoke to us about the blurred line between personal and professional when your social media accounts are your business, as well as that elusive question: how to grow sales by growing your Insta…

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In Expert Advice Tags Instagram, Social Media, Expert Advice, Pati Robins, Robyn Donaldson, Shelley Carline, Hilary and Flo, Almost everything off eBay
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"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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📚6-BOOK GIVEAWAY!📚 This is my bedroom as it appears in my book, Pink House Living ⚡️. If you‘re a lover of a luxurious coffee table book, complete with tactile cover and loads of interior inspo, how do you fancy winning not just my weighty to
My FABULOUS new bespoke trapeze just arrived from @flingo.and.swollop and it’s giving me ALL the Glastonbury Festival feels (plus it would be PERFECT for a Pride parade 🏳️‍🌈). I’ve actually only been to Glastonbury once, in 2000, wh
We sacked off home school and went to Whitstable for the day. It was glorious. I swam in the sea, ate oysters (though not from this #pinkpilgrimage destination sadly as Wheelers isn’t open on Tuesdays), watched my son gleefully throw stones int
🍾I now declare The Pink House Deck officially...OPEN! Swipe for mini tour and see stories/Garden highlight in bio for last night’s deck launch party details, including my attempt at becoming the Athena poster tennis girl 🎾, and what happens w
10 FACTS ABOUT ME My mum called me yesterday from Edinburgh to say her old school friend, who now lives in the US and follows me on Instagram, had contacted her to ask if I was ok, as she “hadn’t seen you on Instagram for about a week!&rd
🥂Sweetie dahling! 🥂I’m proud to be working with @johnlewisandpartners and the @britishfashioncouncil to share my (rather unconventional 🤸🏼) catwalk moment and support the very first digital-only, gender-neutral London Fashion Week! Swipe to
💖PINK DECK DEBUT!💖
Who needs foreign holidays? 😬 If you’re looking for me this summer I’ll be chilling out here with socially distanced friends and a bottle of pink fizz, ignoring small person pleas for ‘just one more ice cream&r
💖PINK LADY💖 I’ve been on many wonderfully colourful Instagram journeys over the last few days, discovering gorgeous accounts belonging to creatives from a diverse range of backgrounds. I found this beautiful artwork by über-talented fell
I hereby pledge to use my white privilege - and any other privileges I enjoy - to stop being part of the diversity problem and start becoming part of the solution. The lack of diversity in the interiors industry is shocking. Things must change, and t
As part of the work I’m doing to be actively anti-racist and diversify my account, I spent time today and yesterday researching non-white interior designers and influencers. Along the way I was reminded of some incredible creatives I already fo

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