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06 Dec 18

Christmas gift guide for colour lovers

Interior designer Sophie Robinson shares her colur loving christmas gift ideas

This year we’ve agreed, due to the amount of money we are haemorrhaging on the house that  I’m getting a new dressing gown. And he’s getting socks. And that’s it.

Anyone who has renovated a house will know its all about ‘presents for the house’. While my husband has many fabulous attributes (as I type this at 9pm at night, with a whiskey mac in hand,  he’s currently plastering the down stairs WC) but he is absolutely shockingly bad at buying me gifts. If you have a similar problem, just send your beloved the link to this blog post because I’ve done all the hard work for them. I’ve trawled the internet picking out some of the things that I would just love to treat myself or a fellow colour loving loved one to this Christmas. Thank you so much for indulging me here (as clearly no one else is going to)…drumroll…here’s my Christmas gift guide for colour lovers, let’s shop!

Treat yourself and your home

My exclusive bed linen collection for Secret Linen Store is perfect for cosying up with colour at this time of year, prices start from £14

Shameless plug alert but I think if you are really wanting to spoil someone this Christmas then there is nothing more treaty than a new set of super soft bed linen. The range I designed with  Secret Linen is in all my eye popping favourite colours. I particularly love the pom pom trim linen and if you have a pom pom lover in your life then this is for them.  And there are pom pom cushions and throws to match, with giant pom poms!!!! Okay I’ll stop now.

Interior designer and colour scheme expert shares her Christmas gift ideas which include these leopard print pyjamas by Universe of us

Leopard print pyjamas, £84.99, Universe Of Us. Dazzling blue 100% linen bed linen,  Secret Linen Store.

Next on the topic of bed linen, one of my favourite elements of Christmas day is the morning itself. Our tradition is for Arthur to join us in bed and we drink bucks fizz while he opens his stocking. So to complete the bucolic picture I’m painting, you need some drop dead fabulous PJ’s. These ones from small British boutique brand Universe of Us make you feel fab-u-las and even have discreet gold piping. Queen!

Interior designer Sophie Robinson shares her Christmas gift giving ideas with this colourful limited edition print by Studio Coverdale

Floralis Florix print, £180, Studio Coverdale.

Seek out small brands and find something special

Christmas is undoubtedly one of those times of years for seeking out those things that are just a little bit special. And I’m letting you into a secret here, I’m just head over heels in love with new small brand Studio Coverdale. I’m an avid art collector and there is nothing that Natasha creates that I don’t immediately want to put pride of place in my home. Her designs are fearless, audacious and her use of colour and print is perfection. I hope she does a range of stationary next as they would make great stocking fillers. Meanwhile if you want to gift your walls this season, it has to be one of these. Posters start from a more affordable £49.

Quick online buys for your colour lover
  1. I think a mug makes a great small Christmas gift. You can pop a box of designer teabags in with it too, Pukka are my favourite if only for the packaging! Neon mugs, £7.50 each, Kitty McCall
  2. Next up Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in my house without a good family board game. The Colourbrain is a new release this season and quite frankly had my name all over it. It’s a trivia quiz with all the questions being about colour. I can’t wait to try it out and it looks like it’ll be easy enough for the kids to join in too. But I better win. Colourbrain board game by Big potato, £25, Debenhams
  3. More leopard print pyjamas. I know- they come in four colourways and sorry to come all Imelda Marcos over it but I’d have to have a pair in every colour!  Leopard print pyjamas in rose, £84.99, Universe of Us 
  4. Now Christmas is all about the glitter and sparkle and I can’t mark any occasion with out a huge pair of earrings. I’m especially loving these bobby dazzlers from earring oligarchs Betty & Biddy. Jump on their website and you’ll be lost for hours! But these for me are impossibly glamorous, they have the scale, the colour and the bling. Camilla earrings, £13.38, Betty & Biddy
  5. It wouldn’t be Christmas without a book shaped parcel under the tree. Top of my book list this season has to be the inspirational Love Colour by colour trend forecaster and globetrotter Anna Starmer. Full of all her wonderful interiors and travel photography it gives you hours of page flicking joy. Love Colour: Choosing colours to live with by Anna Starmer available at Amazon
  6. What is it about Christmas and socks? I’ll admit I love receiving a special pair and these colour blocked design from COS has all my favourite colours and only cost a fiver! Colour block socks, £5, COS

HAY Sonos One Limited Edition speaker in pale yellow, £229, Sonos

Find colour in unexpected ways

Danish design brand HAY can do no wrong and I was super excited when I saw they had collaborated with Sonos. We have Sonos speakers throughout our home, and the fact that they can be activate using Alexa is just brilliant. I love telling the speaker to put on radio 2 as I walk into the kitchen first thing in the morning – life’s little pleasures. But typically they are always black so it’s with squeals of delight that you can now buy them in some eye popping candy colours. I generally find tech very unaesthetic and uninspiring, mainly because it’s always black – a colour I rarely use. I love what it does but rarely how it looks so I think these titchy little speakers really pack a punch and blend into your displays effortlessly. A real class act.

interior designer sophie robinson shares her CHritsmas gift guide for colour lovers including these patterned personalised notebooks

Personalised A5 notebooks from Papier

Having something personalised is the ultimate in thoughtfulness I think. I’m fully digital when it comes to organising my diary and my life but I adore notebooks and race through them at an alarming rate. I use them for all my lists, thoughts, workings, even as a sketch book and having a beautiful covered note book to pop into my bag just makes me happy!

 

Interior designer Sophie Robinson shares her colur loving christmas gift ideas

Selection of choclate bars, £5.95 each, Fortnum & Mason

I’ve got an obsession with chocolate and pretty packaging and when the two come together, I’m a very happy bunny. Hoping someone will pop one of these in my stocking this Christmas. Trouble is I’d have to have one in every colour!

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No decorations are allowed in the house until the No decorations are allowed in the house until the first of December and we start the morning with Arthur’s advent Calender! That’s as far as I’ve got in the hallway I’ll be honest as this grid post is a hark back to a previous year. But I’ll be decorating it the same way I do every year. I like to use a mixture of colourful baubles I’ve collected over the years, paper  honeycomb balls for maximum wow and plenty of foliage. I keep the ribbons year on year and rarely buy anything new. The repeated tradition is part of the charm. 
On the podcast @mad_about_the_house and I talk all things Thrifty Christmas. It’s been a really challenging year for most so we invited guests @rocketandsquash and @hazelgardinerdesign to share their money saving ideas to make sure you don’t bust the bank account and yet still have a lovely treaty time. Ed has some lovely ideas for feasting around Christmas that crucially cuts down on waste and avoids unnecessary expensive ingredients. And Hazel loves to use foraged foliage in her floral displays so has plenty of ideas on that. 
It’s a peach of a show jam packed with creative inspiration. Listen on your podcast app, and why not leave a comment below on how you will be being thrifty this Christmas 👇 

#1stdecember #itsbeginningtolookalotlikechristmas #hallway #hallwaydecor #christmasdecor #thegreatindoors
Who is looking forward to the weekend! 🙌 Welc Who is looking forward to the weekend! 🙌 

Welcome to a rare tour of my home! Since every room looked tidy, I grabbed my phone to show you around. 

You can see how I have lots of colour and pattern in every room but still the house has flow. I use the same palette of colours through which helps make it all hang together. But it takes more than that to make a maximalist home sing. Repeating the same materials, design motifs, styles and shapes helps to create a feeling of cohesion.

For the ultimate insight into how to decorate in a way that supports you emotionally, flexes your creativity and leaves you loving your home, check out my interior design school where I teach you  everything you need to know. 

- how to harmonise colours
- How to plan and budget
- How to source all the materials
- How to save time and money
- How to burst open your creativity

And this weekend you can enjoy 25% of ALL COURSES across my entire design school by using the code BLACKFRIDAY25 at check out. Click on the link in my bio or visit courses.sophierobinson.Co.uk ☝️

#housetour #banthebeige #bbbinteriors #colourlover #colourfulhome #maximalistinteriors #eclecticdecor #onlinedesign #designschool
It’s podcast day on The Great Indoors and we hav It’s podcast day on The Great Indoors and we have a very special guest! @banjo.beale is a BAFTA award winning TV star, winner of series 3 @interiordesignmasters_tv , interior designer and recently adding author to his rosta of talents. While reality TV launched Banjo’s stellar interiors career we managed to bag him for a chat while he took a short beak from sourcing vintage for his second series of Design The Hebrides. 

This is an opportunity to listen to this whirlwind of a design mind, with insights into what it takes to win a TV completion, how living on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides has made him ultimately resourceful and his unique design process. 

Listen to The Great Indoors, whoever you get your podcast. Hit that subscribe button and come back here to let us know what you thought! 

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This is the perfect time of year to up level your This is the perfect time of year to up level your bedding. With the autumn chill on its way I’d rather hike up the tog count than whack up the central heating. 

Beautiful bedding and linen is the ultimate luxury and at this time in my life 👵🏻 my bed is up there as my absolute favourite place to be and my sleep is honestly my favourite pastime! So making it the most comforting, soothing, replenishing experience possible is my priority. 😴

I recently up-levelled my duvet and pillows  to @naturalmatuk goose down products and here is my unbiased review. The pillows are the like sleeping on an actual cloud! Along with the 9 tog duvet I’ll stay cosy all winter, and leave the thermostat turned down.  @naturalmatuk only use natural, sustainable materials, organic cotton and responsibly sourced feathers, which all support a good nights sleep. With a hectic lifestyle, my bed is my ultimate sanctuary 🥱

What’s your self care routine and secret to the perfect pampered night sleep? 

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What a dress! When @benjaminfoxdressmaker spotted What a dress! When @benjaminfoxdressmaker spotted my new collection with @harlequinfw they wanted to make a dress in it! Now I actually match my decor! 

This dress shape is so perfect. I love the big sleeves, that goes so well with a fine knit underneath and the long gathered skirt looks perfect with boots, both of which I bought recently at @cosstores . Team with my signature big earrings ( these are old ones from @anthropologieeu ) and I feel a million dollars! Happy Monday folks! We can do this 👊

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I hosted an event this week to show off all the ha I hosted an event this week to show off all the hard work we’ve done in the house and showcase the new collection with @harlequinfw . It was a wonderful opportunity to fill the house with laughter, great conversation and celebrate our mutual love of colour! Since the pandemic I work more and more from home and it felt good to open the door and let people in. 

The guest list was a mix of writers, artists, gardeners, cooks, designers and fashion stylists but one thing we have in common is embracing the joy of colour and celebrating how our homes are the foundation for a happy and fulfilling life. 

However getting the house ready for such a group of discerning eyes was rather exhausting! I had to hide under the duvet yesterday! But I’m so grateful to everyone who came, their positivity and inspiration. Most of whom I met here on instagram. This is a special place to make like minded connections, yet it was great to actually have an excuse to get together in real life! 

And this weekend Tom and are are celebrating not doing any house DIY for the first time in ages! 

Special Thanks to @mad_about_the_house @erica_davies @hillhousevintage @andrea_childs_journo @theottohouse @clairevallis @michelleogundehin @mollymahonblockprinting @sophieabbottartist @gemswholesomekitchen @edwardrobinsonid @dahliabeach for making it such a wonderful day 

 Thanks to @gemswholesomekitchen fir feeding us! 

thanks to @benjaminfoxdressmaker fir the custom made dress!

#harlequinxsophierobinson #athome #colourlover #banthebeige
#AD Admit it! I can’t be the only one beginning #AD Admit it! I can’t be the only one beginning to plan for Christmas. Conversations about the menu for the big day has started with gusto in my family. But my focus is always around creating a magical table setting. This year I’ll be incorporating these classic Christmas tree plates from @by_spode  that set the festive scene without the need to add loads of other fiddly decorations. I’m all about maximum impact, minimum effort this time of year, and I love how this traditional design (85 years old this year) is the perfect touch of nostalgia to accompany my bright Paper straw stripe tablecloth and colourful gloss candle sticks. I then just add simple flowers by snipping some hydrangea heads and popping them in tumblers dotted along the table. Finally bring it all to life with plenty of candlelight. And voila, it’s the perfect table setting for a fantastical festive celebration. Oh, how I wish the Christmas lunch was this easy to prepare! 

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I’m so excited to present my new ready made cush I’m so excited to present my new ready made cushion collection, in collaboration with @harlequinfw sold exclusively at @johnlewis 
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Cushions have long been an obsession of mine and I’m so thrilled with this capsule collection for @johnlewis because it combines all the pattern and colour so you can get an instant hit of maximalist spirit by creating any combination that works for you. There is the iconic Sherbert stripe, sitting amongst luxurious embroidered designs and heavily patterned velvets. My personal favourite is the deeply colourful jewel bug design🪲 Which ones yours?!

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