Decorating with muted colours is all about soft neutrals for a gentle, sophisticated palate. Popular neutral colour schemes involve pale greys, blush pink, dusty pale greens and blues, light camel and smokey peach. Team them with each other, or match with neutrals if you don’t want to go the whole…
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Looking for a new spice rack for your kitchen? Cosy Home’s resident reviewer, Sara Walker, reviews the contemporary ProCook 10 jar spice rack. “I’m a keen cook, and love to cook with herbs which are an easy way of adding taste and colour to any dish. In the spring and summer…
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While Marie Kondo and her de-cluttering ethos is all the vogue at the moment, we’ve decided to embrace our maximalist tendencies. And it seems we’re not alone – maximalism has been noted as a key trend this year. It’s not about indiscriminately hoarding or collecting random stuff, though – it’s…
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If you don’t have a large outdoor space with room for a permanent or big portable barbecue, then this new product, the Primus Kuchomo barbecue, could be what you need. It’s small, very lightweight and portable, requires only about two square feet of space and is ideal for camping trips.…
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Set up in 2014, Artisanne is the brainchild of Elizabeth de Vise and her sister Emma. The company imports beautiful, traditional, handmade Senegalese baskets, trays and platters directly from the artisans, offering unusual, simple and elegant storage for the home. Sara Walker spoke to Elizabeth to find out how it…
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At last, a product that combines two of my favourite things – biscuits, and llamas. The Llama Decorating Kit from Dr. Oetker costs £4 from larger supermarkets and contains decorations for making six llama biscuits and six cactus biscuits. The box contained white fondant icing, green sugar flakes, red writing…
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Fed up with searching for a stylish wallpaper suitable for her young boys’ bedroom, Victoria Cramsie decided that the only way to find what she wanted was to design it herself. There were lots of designs for girls (mostly around the pink/princess theme), but apparently a bit of a gap…
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For most of us, there simply aren’t enough hours in the day. We rush from one thing to the next at home, trying to keep all those plates spinning – cooking meals, cleaning the house, sorting out the laundry – and sometimes it seems like we’re working all the time…
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