At home we love to layer our different ranges of scents throughout the cottage.  Reed diffusers are great to give the base perfume, for a scent of a newly decorated Christmas Tree we use our Forest or Juniper and Spruce, it’s a combination of scotch pine, clary sage, falling leaves, and juniper berries.  Topped up with a burning scented candle of spicy apple, cardamon, nutmeg and cinnamon.  In the kitchen we love the Anjou Pear, roasted pear and plum with vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg or the Bay Garland, it smells of a freshly picked bunch of herbs.  Lastly and not least the main rooms of the house are immersed in our signature scent of diffuser, room spray and candles of a sweet but citrusy smell of honeysuckle spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and zest.

It’s very important to greet your Christmas Guests with a wonderful fragrance in your home.

Try our Signature Scent, of honeysuckle, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.

To enhance a Christmas clementine decoration add our Mandarine orange with ginger, cedar and berry scent.

To add to the Christmas Greenery a diffuser with the scent of forest, juniper, pine, and clary sage.

Our Juniper and Forest scents give longevity to the Real Christmas Tree scent or

for those that have faux Christmas Trees you don’t have to loose out on the pine scent.

The Forest Diffuser

For the kitchen use the Spicy apple with cinnamon nutmeg and cardamon

or

the anjou pear with vanilla cinnamon and nutmeg.

Layering Scents in your home for the perfect Christmas.

Our thoughts, love and prayers, are with our friends and colleagues in Paris at this awful time.

“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss.” – Charles Dickens,  A Tale of Two Cities

Inspiring and tastefully designed armchairs are very important as a focal point in any room.  The design has to have longevity and comfort, with ample portions,  and most importantly to be pleasing to the eye.

Linen armchairs, dressed with a throw and cushion. available at showroom.

Armchair and accessories available at the showroom.

Armchairs available at the showroom.

Armchairs and accessories available at the showroom.

Armchair available at showroom.

Stunning new wallpapers and fabrics have arrived in from The Mulberry fabric house.  A rich range of inspirational designs, totally unique, luxurious and in a beautiful palette of colours with designs of persian print velvets, appliquéd linens, all to transport you to exotic travels.

Mulberry map wallpapers in a range of colours including the original map colour that it was created from.

Applique fabrics with a hint of metallic to give it a contemporary edge.

Rich velvets in a persian pattern.

kasbah wallpapers in a range of colours

With the nights drawing in we are thinking of entertaining friends at home, now and building up to the seasonal period, it’s all about planning and taking the pressure off.  This is a very small section of our wide range of Dining Tables and chairs available from our showroom.

Ian all ready for having lunch with friends.

Casual Dining made glamorous with the two beautiful Chandeliers (also available from our showroom).

Love to add detail to curtains and upholstery, it’s give the edge and personality, that makes it special just for you.  We have a vast selection of trimmings to design with and here are a few examples of different styles.

Rope Trim detail to re-cover a client’s favourite chair.

Very much on trend a Greek Key trim on leading edge of curtain.

Jewellery Tie-backs for curtains

Trims for cushions and seating.

Elegant Trim for a re-upholstery of a sofa

For an understated elegance using studs on linen to re-upholstery a french style sofa.

Upholstery for a restaurant with simple studding.

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Why have boring old doors when you can have fabulous ones.  We like to upholster ours in texturised fabric, zebra hides or rich velvet framed in antiqued studs, or camouflage them with art.  Here are a few to give you ideas.

Customised wall art to hide doors.

Upholstered doors with leather and antiqued studs.

Doors upholstered in a beautiful Chinese velvet print.  Photo via Veranda

Door camouflaged by a fabulous framed print.

Doors upholstered in a damask weave.

We were delivering outdoor furniture this week, dressed with beautiful cushions, and thankfully the sun is out.   What is your favourite outdoor colour scheme?  Maybe it is blue and white, our favourite, or you may like a riot of colour.  Here are a few snaps to inspire and show examples of fabric available at our showroom to revamp garden seats and lounge areas.

Outdoor furniture delivered to our client’s home where George the boss

of the house found the Manuel Canovas cushions a treat.

Our favourite Ralph Lauren’s Blue and White for outdoor seating

Ralph Lauren

This years Summer choice for seating at the Luisa, Psarou Beach, Mykonos.

Ralph Lauren Cushions at Ralph Lauren’s Courtyard in Paris for the Summer.

Suzani and ikat fabrics are beautiful for outside seating too.

The trend this year is for rich textured wallpapers, a wonderful backdrop for your art collection and textiles.  It gives the walls a feeling of being upholstered so that it’s elegant during the day and rich and sumptuous during the evening.  The new collection form Arté International is in our Showroom.

Client’s requests for outside architecture for their gardens increase dramatically after their trips to the Chelsea Flower Show, so,  we thought we would give you a glimpse of just some of the water features, sculptures, planters and urns that are available from Ian Thompson Interior Design and of course outdoor seating and dining.