Home & Garden
Love Colour, Choosing Colours To Live With by Anna Starmer
Once you’ve decluttered (see yesterday’s post) you’ll look around and think ‘this place could do with a repaint’. I’m about to repaint the kitchen, which means looking at colour choices and that always makes me very nervous. I am always… Read More
The Secret Gardeners by Victoria Summerley
Oh my, this is a fabulous book for anyone who is a teeny bit nosy (in a Hello! crossed with Gardener’s World kinda way) and loves gardens. The Secret Gardeners, Britain’s creatives reveal their private sanctuaries is by Victoria Summerley… Read More
Studio, Creative Spaces For Creative People by Sally Coulthard
Other people’s work spaces, just like other people’s houses, are endlessly fascinating to me. And when the work space is a creative one, such as a studio or workroom, it’s even more exciting; as well as looking at lots of… Read More
House Of Plants by Caro Langton and Rose Ray
If you’ve lived or visited East London within the last few years, you’ll know that succulents and cacti are the house/shop plant du jour, popping up on hip coffee counters, in store windows and woven into VM displays in the… Read More
Gathered by Mary Norden and Polly Wreford
I met Mary Norden at a couple of years ago at a friends dinner party and could tell she was a kindred spirit. Mad about flowers, a dog lover, a textile collector, passionate about colour and pattern and inspired by… Read More
The Kinfolk Home by Nathan Williams
Kinfolk Home focus’s on slowing down and creating more considered, simple living spaces. Author Nathan Williams explores 35 homes, from the US to Scandinavia, Japan, Asia, Africa and Australia – ranging from an old cabin in the woods, clean-lined modern… Read More
How to live Danishly
Ever since I wrote about living softly at the beginning of the year, I have been ever so slightly obsessed with the concept of Hygge and all things Danish.
Denmark is apparently the happiest place in the world, one imagines… Read More
The Shop Keepers Home by Caroline Rowland
Taking a peek inside the homes of the owners of the most stylish lifestyle retailers, Caroline Rowland offers decorating advice inspired by their shopkeepers’ shops and houses, featuring inspirational furniture and lighting ideas, advice on layout, walls and floors and… Read More
Terrariums, Gardens Under Glass by Maria Colletti
You know how we love a terrarium, in fact we’ve been talking about them since the beginning of last year, so we were very excited to see this new book from Maria Colletti on the subject. It doesn’t disappoint, if… Read More
Companion To Scented Plants by Stephen Lacey
While on holiday I re did a bit of my garden and wanted to put in only plants that flowered and smelled fabulous. This book was on the review pile and became my sole reference for what to plant. It… Read More
Chicken & Egg by Andy Cawthray and James Hermes
What better book to promote over the Easter week than Chicken & Egg, an egg-centric guide to raising poultry? I SO want to keep chickens, everyone who does so seems to get such a lot of joy from them. If… Read More
Beds and Borders by Simon Maughan and Jane Courtier
This is a sweet book for a start-gardener looking for some usable inspiration for creating a well coordinated border. The split-page format allows you to select three graduated-in-size plant types to see what they would look like together and if… Read More
First Ladies of Gardening by Heidi Howcroft
Some of the most inspirational women in gardening are listed in this lovely new book by Heidi Howcroft, with images by Marianne Majerus. From Mary Keen and Helen Dillon, Gill Richardson, Rosanna James and Sue Whittington, 14 new and experienced… Read More
Tout Hache by Theurry De Vissant, Lucile Gargasson, Ahmed Yahi
Lets be honest here, absolutely nobody really needs a new cook book. But sometimes one comes a long that entices you in (with me it’s usually the beautiful design) and Tout Hache has done just that, both with its stylish … Read More
Inspire, The Art Of Living With Nature, by Willow Crossley
I could fill my bookshelves with books like this lovely new one from creative florist and passionate crafty person Willow Crossley. Inspire, The Art Of Living With Nature, is full of i50 nnovative ideas on what to do with garden… Read More
Creative Family Home: Ashlyn Gibson
Ashlyn Gibson is an art director, stylist and writer who also owns a lovely children lifestyle shop, Olive Loves Alfie, in my local high street.
Ashlyn has also written her first book, Creative Family Home, which celebrates the zeitgeist in… Read More
The Set Table by Hannah Shuckburgh
If you are free on Thursday 25th April and you love a beautifully set table, can we suggest you nip along to Anthropologie in The King’s Road Chelsea, where Hannah Shuckburgh is celebrating the launch of her pretty new book … Read More
The Fifties Mystique by Jessica Mann
This fab little book tells the 50s as it really was, as opposed to the rose-tinted view we sometimes have when we moan about how terrible things are today and how everything was better ‘back in The Good Old Days….’… Read More
Supermarket Sarah Wonder Walls: A Guide to Displaying Your Stuff by Sarah Bagner
If, like me, you are more of a maximist than a minimalist and have your own distinct interior style, then this is the book for you.
A celebration of the individual and eccentric, Sarah Bagner (better known as Supermarket Sarah)… Read More
My Cool Shed by Jane Field-Lewis
Bringing Nature Home: Floral Arrangements Throughout the Seasons: Floral Arrangements Throughout the Seasons, by Nicolette Owen and Deborah Needleman
The Camper Van Coast: Cooking, Eating, Living the Life by Marin Dorey
Homespun Style and Dottie Angel
We love anything crafty here at TWR, be it books, blogs, magazines, craft fairs or classes.
Amanda is a dab hand at quilt/jam/garment making, but I’m more of a ‘collect loads of vintage fabrics, ribbons, antique buttons and interesting haberdashery,… Read More
Found, Free, and Flea by Tereasa Surratt
A book about collecting written by an advertising creative director with a passion for collecting. Also check out her blog.… Read More
Vintage Flowers by Vic Brotherson
Scarlet and Violet is one of my favourite florists, I first found it at Tom Dixon’s store last year, as a pop up during the London Design Festival, I went home and tried to make my flower vases look like… Read More
Nomad, bringing your travels home by Sibella Court
Haven’t actually read this yet but it’s Sibella Court and we love her. It would be a nice present for a creative person (big hint family, if you are reading).… Read More
Beautiful Chickens by Christie Aschwanden
This week the nice crew over at The Book People sent us over this gorgeous edition on chickens. It is the perfect tome to buy anyone who loves chickens but can’t keep them due to space issues, the photography is… Read More
The Stylist’s Guide to New York by Sibella Court
Sibella Court wrote one of our favourite home books Etcetera, and she also works with Anthropologie, so really, what’s not to love? She lists here favourite places to stay, eat and buy stuff, all flavoured with her distinctly creative style.… Read More
Modern Vintage Style by Emily Chalmers
