Love it or loathe it, the Royal Wedding will be in full swing this Friday. Check out the ideas in our guide on how to celebrate (free Jo Malone Royal Wedding cupcake and champers anyone?) or avoid it (if you haven’t already booked the first flight out to the Svalbard Arctic and banished the bunting). Royalists, republicans and everyone in between, enjoy your long weekend…
You’d think that after all that Easter egg hunting and finding and eating last week, I'd have had enough of chocolate. But oh no! There’s four days of valuable baking time this weekend and the delicious recipe from Miss Hope’s delightful Chocolate Box book is too gorgeous to ignore. Who needs Willy Wonka! Check out the Passion Fruit Hearts ...View more
For hot tips on summer style and advice on how to become your own interior designer, read our exclusive interview with Lucy Heathcoat-Amory from one half of design duo Amory Brown. Check out these gorgeous interior home projects too...
Dutch industrial designer Marcel Wanders has come to be known as the 'bad boy of the design world' (there's space for two Monsieur Starck!). Famous for his work at conceptual design company Droog and for co-founding Moooi, this week he has added a new string to his bow. He's just launched new range called Garden of Eden, which conta...View more
Is your street having a party on Friday to celebrate the Royal Wedding? Got the bunting and paper cups? You can add a regal touch to your home too and celebrate in style with this charming Royal Flush wallpaper from View more
Size is starting to matter. It’s no longer about having a beautiful light or a comfy chair, or a shaggy rug to walk on - now furniture and accessories have got to be outsized, huge, and give you the feeling of Alice in Wonderland, dwarfed by your surroundings. Playing with scale brings an instant feeling of drama to a room, and the larger and more out of pla...View more
ACHICA Living meets world-renowned interior designer Nina Campbell to talk trends, hot hotels and find out how she'll be spending the weekend...
Did you always know you wanted to be an interior designer and what was your first big break into the design world?
Yes from day one it was all I ever wanted to be. We moved house a lot whilst I was a child so I was always allowed to decorate my own bedroom and that gave m...View more
New York’s boutique beauty: This week, ACHICA Living got About Town from Soho to SoHo at Tim and Kit Kemp’s Crosby Street Hotel in New York. Applaud, cheer and delight in it’s gorgeous interior here…
With six super successful hotels in England (including London’s Soho Hotel and View more
One too many shandys on a Tuesday night is not a good idea. I know this, you know this, we all know this. I have told myself this time and time again, but will I listen? No. Someone please pass the Nurofen. So today, I'm mostly wishing I was in a dark room, lying on a sofa with my head resting on some soft, plump cushions. In fact, these gorgeous cushions from View more
Today I’m admiring Barker and Stonehouse’s new Earlston furniture range and wishing I had a home office like the gem above. Great, don't you think? I love the Earlston Hugo desk's vintage styling, which is given a modern edge with a vibrant-red office chair. The desk comes in rustic black metal with a bleached old pine top. The heirloom look and feel of the E...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
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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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