25 Beautiful Homes March 2016

Every week 25 Beautiful Homes’ wonderful assistant, Sally, takes calls and emails from you, our readers. Last week she had an email that was not a query or a complaint but just a message from a reader simply telling us how much she enjoyed the magazine. Feedback such as this means more to the 25BH team than that kind woman will ever realise. It reminded me that at the heart of the magazine is a committed and talented team. From Sally, who is always on hand to help our readers, to Emma and Seán, who have the enviable task of sourcing the beautiful homes that fill our pages every month. From an array of submissions, they choose the homes that will grace the pages of each issue and are worthy…

1 ROSE TINTED Pink desk lamp, £99, Rigby & Mac 2 CANDY CUPPA Smeg KLF01 retro-style kettle in mint green, £99.99, Euronics 3 EASTER ADORNMENT Pussy willow nest, £8, Sainsbury’ 4 MOTHER’S DAY BOUQUET Peony seasonal spring flower arrangement, £39, QVC 5 CASE HISTORY Pastel retro suitcases, £20 for a set of three, Barker & Stonehouse 6 SWEET SEAT Dinton dining chairs in coral, £175 for two, Marks & Spencer 7 GLASS ACT Maedeli wine glass in blue, £26 for four, Wayfair 8 VELVET TOUCH Chatsworth two-seater sofa in Chester Hedgerow, £1,800, Laura Ashley 9 FINISHING FLOURISH Jessica light dusty blue tassel, £9, Bluebellgray…

1 TAKE A PEW Tillfälle bench, £100, Ikea 2 LIGHT & SHADE Mullan Lighting Passion pendant, £341, In-Spaces 3 IN THE GROOVE Philips OTT2000 original turntable, with CD and MP3 player, FM radio and bluetooth streaming, £120, Amazon 4 ART OF GLASS Jack mirror, £550, Jonathan Adler 5 SOFT TO THE TOUCH Klippan Flower Power cotton baby blanket, £42, Andshine 6 CITRUS AROMA Orla Kiely orange rind scent diffuser, £32, John Lewis 7 TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF Beech design cushion, £25, Dickins & Jones collection at House of Fraser 8 TIME CHECK Bullitt alarm clock, £37.50, Newgate Clocks 9 MID-CENTURY MARVEL Whitworth leather chair, £1,000, Laura Ashley…

MUSTARD VELVET CUSHIONS Please could you tell me where I can find velvet cushions in the same yellow colour as the ones in Stephen Ireton and Dan Moore’s sitting room (p43, November 2015)? I think they will look great on my new charcoal grey sofa. JESS BRADLEY, BY EMAIL You are right – mustard yellow and charcoal are a strong colour combination. I have sourced a few sizes, the largest being Habitat’s (0344 499 4686, habitat.co.uk) Regency cushion in Sahara Yellow velvet with a linen back, 60sq cm, £40. Graham and Green (020 8987 3700, grahamandgreen.co.uk) sells its Mustard Yellow velvet cushion (shown right) as a square, 45cmsq, £35; a rectangle, 35 x 50cm, £30; and as a floor cushion, 60sq cm, £60. CONTEMPORARY FIREPLACE I love Hannah Jefferson’s and Richard Joseph’s contemporary fireplace…

Every week 25 Beautiful Homes’ wonderful assistant, Sally, takes calls and emails from you, our readers. Last week she had an email that was not a query or a complaint but just a message from a reader simply telling us how much she enjoyed the magazine. Feedback such as this means more to the 25BH team than that kind woman will ever realise. It reminded me that at the heart of the magazine is a committed and talented team. From Sally, who is always on hand to help our readers, to Emma and Seán, who have the enviable task of sourcing the beautiful homes that fill our pages every month. From an array of submissions, they choose the homes that will grace the pages of each issue and are worthy…

REPLANNED HOME TRUTHS THE PROPERTY A five-bedroom 1930s end-of-terrace LOCATION South-west London ROOMS Kitchen-diner/ living space, sitting room, office, cloakroom, five bedrooms (one en suite), two bathrooms PURCHASED 2010 PREVIOUS PROPERTY ‘We used to live in a four-bedroom terrace nearby,’ says Caroline. Coming to live in Twickenham in 2009 after a work move, American Caroline Green and her English husband Peter rented a four-bedroom terraced home in an attractive area that had plenty of green space, restaurants and cafés. ‘We really liked living here, and we’d made friends with our neighbours and there was plenty to occupy our children, Maya, now 9, and Oliver, 6, who was then a baby,’ says Caroline. ‘We decided we’d like to buy and narrowed it down to just a few roads of 1930s houses.’ But there was one place in particular that…