Abigail Ahern's Blog

STYLISH STORAGE IDEAS

Storage, storage, storage – there is just never enough. As you know, I am a maximalist and so I love having lots of things out to look at. As we are now officially in spring,  many of us are lookin...

HOW TO STYLE YOUR OFFICE SHELVES

Anyone that knows me knows how important layers and vignettes are to all my schemes. I’m never going to be your minimalist kinda girl – maximalism, intrigue, art, objet and decorating to the max! T...

HOW TO CHOOSE THE PERFECT VASE

I have a question for you guys today – do you prefer narrow necked or wide necked vases? This is a toughie, and rather hard to choose as I love both. I’m a little obsessed with flowers (have you no...

COMMON PAINT DILEMMAS

  I get questions all the time from people who are fully signed up to taking the plunge and going to the dark side, but are suddenly hit by a load of other dilemmas. Sure, you’re committed to paint...

SYMMETRY VS ASYMMETRY

Throughout the month I’ll be peppering the blog with snippets from my Design Schools, little AA takeaways if you will! These are a few of my favourite tips to add oodles of style to your pad. I’ll ...

MAKING A MANCAVE STYLISH

So I was challenged to make a homemade den, and I was all ready to give my thoughts on reading nooks or how to create those cosy intimate spaces that I know I bang on and on about all the time, but...

The case for adding something tattered

Before I kick start this mornings blog a few other things. Firstly we are expanding up at Heal’s (all hugely exciting and a lot more on this another time) but as a result are now looking for a full...

How to have a gorgeously scented home

One of my most favourite finishing touches is scent, here is how to scent your whole home in the most intoxicating ones!

INSTAGRAM TIPS FOR DECORATING YOUR LIVING ROOM

I don’t know about you but I love scrolling through instagram for inspiration. I think it’s actually become my top place for getting ideas on the go, there’s so many creative people, photographers,...

HOW YOUR HOME CAN MAKE YOU LUCKIER

Happy Friday 13th everybody! Just curious to know really, how many of you actually treat Friday 13th differently from any other day? In case it really does bother you I thought I’d step in with a f...