The Pink House


Property Mail catches up


with the The Pink House’s Emily Murray, to discover how to harness the prettiest colour of the rainbow.


WRITTEN BY GABRIELLE FAGAN


Once cast aside as ‘girly’, the colour pink is fast shaping up to be the hottest shade for interiors.


Sugary pinks through to snazzy scarlets, pretty peaches and even funky neons are the winning shades on the palette this season. “Don’t make the mistake of thinking that pink is just for girls. Not any more it isn’t,” declares Emily Murray, creator of award-winning blog, Te Pink House, which celebrates the colour in all its hues in her own pink decorated home. It’s been such a success since she started it three years ago (she has more than 60,000 followers on Instagram) that her new book, Pink House Living: For People Cheating


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On Fashion With Furniture, was a natural follow-on. It’s a brilliant guide to seeing the world through ‘rose-tinted’ decor spectacles. Stepping inside her home is proof of pink’s magic - she shows me around rooms which ooze personality, thanks to the magical touches of her “all-time favourite colour”. Pink painted walls, a pink kitchen island, neon pink signs, splashes of pink to highlight period features, as well as an array of punchy pink accessories, are just some of the ways in which the colour has a starring role in her schemes. Yet with her skill and sense of style, she makes it sing - rather than dominate or shock - in her Edwardian semi, and this uber-cool interior leaves you wondering why you’ve never thought of using pink more.


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