Australian luxury bedding specialist Sheridan is world-renowned for its luxury range of bed linen including sheets, pillow cases and quilt covers featuring superior yarns with high threadcounts and gorgeous designs. There's something for everyone in the range, which suits both contemporary and classic schemes, including the pure-cotton sateen linen with a 400 thread count (pic...View more
I do love a bit of cheese at Christmas and I'm not just referring to my fascination with Bowie in Bing and Bowie's Little Dummer Boy. I can eat Sainsbury's super strong Blue Stilton cheese by the truck load. Marks & Spencer's White Stilton with Cranberr...View more
Season's Tweetings! Check out these Christmas cottages for birds - nevermind greeting guests with a festive looking front door, have you made the birds in your garden suitably welcome in such frosty times? These decorative bird houses and bird feeders from Outdoor Accents are s...View more
Here at ACHICA Living, we have a bit of a thing for Muuto lighting. Striving to expand the Scandinavian design tradition with an original perspective, Muuto scouts Scandinavia for the brightest design talent and, when it finds it, gives each designer the freedom to express their style through everyday objects. The re...View more
Let your creative flair run wild with a set of six mirrored chrome birds from Umbra at ACHICA.com. The 'Tweet' decor homeware set, designed by Tom Vincent and Marion Lanktree, will bring a bare living room, bedroom or hall wall to life and can be mounted in an instant. These mirrors are ideal for reflecting light from a nearby lamp, helping to create a sense of space. View more
Does the snow have you reaching for your Christmas jumper, stirring the mulled wine and pretending you're in a chic alpine lodge in the Alps? Wham's Last Christmas video springs to mind. Or is it making you dream of hotter climes? Now I'm thinking of Wham's Club Tropicana video - s...View more
Read our interview with textile designer Niki Jones who explores craft in a contemporary way in her beautiful homewares. Before starting her own company, she worked as style coordinator at Habitat and design director at Wedgwood. Here, she explains why she feels so strongly on keeping craft alive and how she went about starting her business…
Time for cake? Of course it is. Eat Me: The Stupendous, Self-Raising World of Cupcakes & Bakes According to Cookie Girl, Xanthe Milton just landed on my desk and features some mouthwatering recipes, so I thought I'd share some with you. Choose from wonderfully festive Bollywood Cupcakes (above) and Banoffee Cupcakes (below). Need an excuse? It's Thursday and it's rain...View more
We catch up with the design duo to talk about their decadent, urban furniture designs, discover what they love about Philippe Starck and Banksy and find out why they'll settle for nothing else but a true Swedish Christmas...
How did you meet and get to become a successful design duo?
Jimmie: We first met in Sweden in 1997, but it wasn...View more
Emily Peck
Emily is the Founding Editor of the blog. Her experience includes writing and styling for Grand Designs, Stuff, Real Homes, Ideal Home, Woman&Home, Wired UK, C4 and the BBC.
Pip McCormac
Guest Editor Pip is the Commissioning Lifestyle Editor for The Sunday Times Style magazine. He's also written for Stylist, Elle Decoration and StyleJunkee.
Emma Morton Turner
Guest Editor Emma has written and styled for Woman&Home, Style At Home, Feel Good Food, Woman and Ideal Home to name a few. She's also fab at making stunning cakes!
David Nicholls
Guest Editor David holds the position of Design Editor at Telegraph Magazine, sourcing stunning homes around the world and reporting back with the best designs from high street to high end.
Zia Allaway
Guest Editor Zia is a gardening expert, author of books including How to Grow Practically Everything and editor of Beautiful Gardens magazine. She also contributes to Homes and Gardens and The Garden Design Journal.
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