We’ve got ourselves a little competition, running for the next two weeks, courtesy of Harveys – The Furniture Store (thanks, Mister Harvey!)… If these two cushions happen to catch your eye, here is YOUR chance to win the pair!
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I am always fascinated to hear what makes someones house their home. I’ve lived in (what feels like) a zillion different flats and shared houses since leaving my Yorkshire roots and coming down south to (first) Brighton and (then) London. But what has always made me feel immediately at home is surrounding myself with photographs of my loved ones, and objects that hold meaning for me.. whether it be something given to me from a loved one, or something picked up on my travels.. or something that reminds me of moment which made me laugh so much my belly hurt. So it’s these things which make me feel at home, and it is these things which probably inspired my love affair with interiors.
So my favourite part of my home is my bookshelves – filled to bursting with not only books, but photographs, my ACDC collectors toy.. my stripy vases I bought in Spain (one which has a chip in it), my dragon mask I bought in Malaysia, my boyfriends comics from when he was a boy, my brother’s Noddy book collection which i don’t think he knows I have!..(he does now!), 3 different types of russian doll collections, and a tank. A small tank. And a plant called Matilda – which used to be ‘married’ to Matthew until I chucked him out 2 months ago into the skip when he went a bit brown and floppy.
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What I want to find out is….
I would love to hear from you! For the best answer, you get to win the pair of cushions! So please do let me know!!! (and if you want to include a piccie – feel free!).
Unfortunately, winners of the cushions must live in the UK and be 18yrs or older… but anyone wanting to send in a reply anyway regardless of where they live PLEASE DO!!! Competition closes midnight on Fri 15th October.
Kxx
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October 1, 2010 at 1:29 pm
jo smith
My favourite part of my home is my dining table in my living room: this isn’t as boring as it sounds, as it spends most of its life as a huge makeshift shelf. I put bits and pieces on it that I think are interesting, well designed or quirky that make me happy! Currently I have an owl moneybox which is made out of old Kimino pieces, a blown-glass cupcake, a coffee pot and water jug bought for a quid at a car boot sale and an old album cover of Sandie Shaw’s from the 60’s! Oh and my collection of japanese waving cats, of course.
Then, whenever I have friends over for dinner, I move my strange collection of things onto other available surfaces, and open my ‘shelf’ up and turn it into a smart dining table that can seat up to 6 people (not bad going for my little flat).
So, that’s my favourite part of my home. Ithink it says that I have eclectic tastes and that I love feeding people (both very true!)
October 2, 2010 at 10:50 am
Julia Chambers
The place in my house which is my haven and makes it my home is my kitchen. I just love being in it. It’s not a particularly glamourous kitchen but it is where I relax, unwind and create. I spend a lot of my time in there cooking the usual lunches and tea so there is nearly always a smell of home cooked food..however my passion in the kitchen is baking cakes. It’s just a hobby but creating a cake, particularly a wedding cake for someone, and seeing their eyes light up when they see the creation is just amazing. When the cake is in the oven I love to sit at the little dining table we have in there, with a good book or magazine, a cup of Yorkshire tea (the best !!) waiting for the oven to ‘ping’ t tell me the cake is cooked. It is a well loved kitchen, tidy but not spotless. There’s things all over the work tops, cook books, and cookery magazines all over but it’s my home.
I’d put some photos in of my cakes and things but I don’t know how!!
October 19, 2010 at 1:49 pm
katyelliott
CONGRATULATIONS Miss J! I love the description of your well-loved, homely, cosy kitchen, and so would love to announce you as the winner of the Harveys cushions!! I can almost smell the delicious home baking.. so-much-so that i may now have to go and put the kettle on, and find myself a wee biscuit to dunk (alas, I have no cakes to hand!)..
But if you fancy sending over some images of your cakes to me on my email address, id love to see them for myself! They sound pretty impressive!
Thanks again.. and keep on ‘pinging’! And enjoy your cushions too!
Kxxx
October 2, 2010 at 1:05 pm
jois
I am in love with my bathroom. we bought our apartment in Berlin Mitte about 1,5 years ago, but have just moved in a few months ago. And only about now, things are about to come together… knowing, though, that it will take several more years of collecting and snooping until one day i can truely say: we are finished here.
But for now, i am in love with my bathroom most. Mainly remembering what state it was in when i first seeing it. I think we did quite well ; )
October 4, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Tim
My favourite room is the living room. We’ve decorated it in the last year sine moving in on Christmas eve, and it was the place we spent the first day in front of a roaring fire watching terrible Christmas tv and stuffing our faces. It’s the place I put my feet up after a hard day and the place we share hugs after a really hard day. It’s also the room where we’ve got our favourite things – a lovely lamp, a funky stool, our favourite pictures and the sofa we had upholstered. What’s more despite a slightly eclectic collecting methodology it all works. It’s stylish, witty and comfortable all at once. And it’s grey.
October 5, 2010 at 2:25 am
Demir Leather
i love my bookshelf too. its overcrowded with stuff that i’m gonna have to find a new bookshelf soon or else i’ll have a lot of broken pieces.
October 5, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Andy
My favourite place has to be my living room. I’m not exactly stylish. Most design trends have faded into obscurity before I notice they existed!! I just wanted somewhere that felt like home, where I don’t have worry about getting muck on the pristine white carpets or spend hours polishing. I like it in the summer when it’s light, bright and cool; but I love it in winter. With the flames of my fire (it’s gas, but don’t tell anyone!!) lighting up the natural wood and vintage wallpaper, it’s the best place in the world. There’s still work to do, but it can wait until spring.
October 6, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Miss R
My kitchen, as its the place i love to spend time in cooking for friends and family (especially my husband), to me it is full of collected treasures and gadgets that I adore.
October 10, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Jen
My bedroom got a makeover earlier this year and is now my favourite room. Two walls are deep olive green, two walls are white. White curtains fall all the way to the floor and I have a homemade (by my lovely talented mum) patchwork quilt running across the end of my bed. Unbeknown to me when I asked her to make me the quilt, hexagonal patchwork quilt pieces cannot be machine stitched together…only hand stitched! It takes pride of place and pulls the whole room together. On a trip to Whitby recently I bought a lovely wooden based table lamp to add to the room. Now I’m on the lookout for a restored chest or drawers and then the room will be complete.
October 13, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Rachel
My favourite part of the house is our bedroom. It’s warm and cosy (thanks to the chocolate-coloured walls) and there’s a soft, fluffy throw on the bed to cuddle up under on cold nights (we have a few of them in Yorkshire!). The main reason I like our bedroom though is that the only people who ever go in there are me and my husband – it’s the one room of the house I don’t have to keep tidy! So there are half-read books and magazines peaking out from under the bed, and a couple of CD cases with no CDs in on the chest of drawers. The bedroom is also where I make the transformation from the me who gets up in the morning to the me who leaves the house an hour later – my chest of drawers displays an array of make-up, hair products and styling gadgets, headscarves hang from the corner of the mirror, there’s a jewellery box containing the necklaces I choose from every morning. And at the end of the day, when I get home from work, it’s the room I go to to stop being the me everyone else sees and go back to being the me I really am. And because no-one else is going to see it, I don’t have to worry about the mess I leave behind!
October 14, 2010 at 4:54 pm
mrfresh
My favorite part of my house is a 50/50 call. My favorite place would probably be my studio, as its home to all my records, my computer and all my recording equipment. And a room where i spend a lot of time, listening to records, sampling records, and trying to make those samples into something incredible to listen to!.. its also a place where i browse the internet, something that gives me access to a great deal of information and allows me to check for certain things and keep in touch with certain people. it also has its walls covered in posters and flyers from clubs and jams that ive been to over the years, which is great to look at when looking for inspiration or when simply reminiscing about nights out when i was younger.
But then my bathroom is also a place where i enjoy being!.. simply because of my bath. nothing special in turns of a bath, but somewhere where i can relax and listen to music (blasting out from the studio in the next room!) and soak my achey bones in stupidly hot water! And im not ashamed to say it.. i love using my toilet!! a place where i can sit and think about things, read my post, and contemplate life and what i intend on doing throughout the day. Its part and parcel of being English i think. All English men enjoy using the toilet, and those too afraid to say so should be given white feathers for cowardice!.. but on the whole if i really had to choose a room, one room i favour more than others, it would be my studio, for all the previously mentioned reasons, and also because its a place that is the root of so many things that have given me satisfaction and pleasure over the years, and all being good, is the place that will be the root of so many more things to come. Crate apes in 2011 yo!!.. PEACE!!