Peaches & Trifles: November 2012

Mixing rooms

I've been trying to explain to Wills for months why having a claw-foot bath in a big open-plan study/sitting room is a great idea. But he says baths should live in bathrooms, beds in bedrooms, etc. Here's some photographic evidence in my favour...

(PS: This is actually a sort-of-hotel room, from One Fine Stay. Beautiful tub - and monk's bench).

Tim Walker

This isn't strictly interiors. But because Tim Walker is the most amazingly-imaginative photographer ever, and because I haven't found an afternoon to visit his exhibition currently taking place at Somerset House, here's a little blog tribute to him.

Don't try these interiors ideas at home... except, perhaps, this first one.

When Enid Blyton met Tim Walker...

Me, after a bad day's novel writing/decorating

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa, Here's a Christmas list from my little flat. Please be generous. x

This Rob Ryan paper cutting... It's called I Opened My Heart. It's £2,050...

Graham and Green's Ball Mirror. It's £130

Lovely Danish Wool Throw, £165

£62.50, Alexander & Pearl, candelabra

Sinatra Black Wood Lamp, £110, Alexander & Pearl...

Industrial Shoreditch Chair, £125

Starling - usually about £2k, but Ross sells mini 15cm ones for £150.

£250 Rockett St George Dining Bench

Deep Dream Cotton Sofa, Graham and Green, £2.5k

And this sofas.com bed, in soft grey wool, with storage for £1.3k.

Pretty dinners

Our current dining table fits one plate and two glasses, or two plates no glasses. Not all four. So Wills and I began shopping for a real dining table this week - one that doesn't look like it belongs in a doll's house. Everything on the high street was samey and bland, so we turned to online boutiques. What we went for in the end was this:

Very sensible and something of a compromise. But here's a tribute to the tables I REALLY fell for - but lost out on because they were a) too big, b) too pricey, c) already sold, or d) all three.