Before getting onto creating rooms that you love I must say the biggest thank you to everyone for their comments of encouragement yesterday, thank you, thank you it means so much, I shall keep you posted on developments.
How then do you create a room that you love? First up decide upon your style, industrial, rustic, contemporary, traditional, or all of that group and more? For me its the eclectic vibe all the way, its the hardest to pull off but its the most playful. When you’ve nailed the style its time to put the look together. For me a home must have books, flowers (heaps of), art and stuff. Without stuff its hard to give a home soul, I talk about it in the classes but its all about tantalising the eye. The more you tantalise the eye the more exciting a space becomes. So I want a feeling of casual grandness if that makes any sense at all. I want my spaces to feel glamourous but also laid back so you don’t feel you have to take your shoes off the moment you walk through the door. You might want something entirely different which is why design is so exciting right now anything goes. We are not slaves to trends, we acknowledge and are aware but it doesn’t necessarily shape our buying decisions. So if you follow you heart, and buy things that you respond to emotionally i.e. there is some connection that moment you see it then I can pretty much guarantee it will work. It might not work where you planned it but it will fit into the overall scheme, she says having brought a 1960′s coffee table on a whim not so long ago that fits nowhere (except the thought has just crept into my head) maybe the new store if we get it!
Decorating is a journey a fun, fabulous sometimes-frustrating journey a bit like life I guess.
Martyn Thompson’s interior below in NYC, a totally personal eclectic space that I respond to on so many levels.
Happy Wednesday, we put an offer in on the store which I am not thinking about, (trying not to think about). Flowers and coffee, moose’s and dog lights, ostrich tables and papier mache elephants all hanging out in a gritty stretch of road flanked by kebab shops. Must be mad!!
Wow – your future shop (fingers crossed) sounds amazing – don’t get the chance to come to London too often now but will save up babysitting credits to whizz down as soon as it opens. Just the description of your ideas is so inspirational alone. Look forward to reading about progress.
Thank you very kind
I am mentally queuing up outside your new shop for my morning coffee already – and I live in Brighton!
You’ve gotta do it!!
Wow thank you x
Amazing that you have put an offer in! Sending all the luck in the world to you! x
Thank you
Omg I put an offer in today as well…. We are at negotiation stage but think I may die if I don’t get. Has rooms above that will be ( if I get it ) artists spaces hve so many up and coming artist friends that they have been promised some space.. Elephants omg can’t believe u mentioned them I am so crazy about them have an elephant lamp sitting in my lounge room given to me ( but chosen by me) by my best friend who is no longer with us – but have been scrounging around trying to find more want elephant tables elephant shelves elephant everything. So know I am on the right path thanks to you. Good luck with the shop I know that sinking feeling when your just sooooo bloody excited !!! Jo x
So both of us with offers in will keep my fingers crossed and hope you get it, sounds very exciting and scary – opposites sides of the world but in the same boat with the same feelings. Good luck x
Will have fingers and toes crossed for you. It’s exactly where I want to go for a nice cuppa!!!!
Thanks very kind of you to say
Fabulous News! ‘knock it out the park’ darling!!!
Thank you my dear x