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French Lifestyle Top 6 French Wedding Venues
From a beautiful chateau to your own rustic village, we've hand-picked our top French wedding venues for a perfectly romantic destination wedding in France.
Shopping Guides Getting Your Bedroom Lighting Right for the Best Night’s Sleep
Lighting can play a huge part in ensuring we get a good night’s sleep, here we share our tips on optimising your bedroom lighting, to help you drift off and have a restful night’s sleep.
Styling Tips Pantone Colour of the Year 2020: Classic Blue
Pantone’s Colour of the Year, 2020 is Classic Blue. We’re showing how a sea of blue can transform your home and mood.
Styling Tips How to Enhance the Natural Light in Your Boudoir
As our days become darker, we’re looking to the magic of mirrors to make our bedrooms and homes brighter and lighter.
French Lifestyle French Wedding Edit: 10 Super-Chic Ideas
From braids to beautiful bedroom furniture, manicures to couture, there’s a lot the French do well. Synonymous with effortless style, romance and, don't forget - cheese, it’s no wonder we want to steal, ahem, ‘borrow’ a few French wedding details to give the big day that 'certain something'.
Styling Tips How To: Get Insta-Worthy Style in Your Home
Scrolling Instagram for hours fills our cups with interiors inspiration, but what is it that sets an 'insta-worthy' home apart from all the rest? Find out more and how to achieve that inst-style in your home.
Styling Tips Leopard Print Love-In
They’ve slowly and gracefully crept their way into our homes via our wardrobes; it all started with a scarf, then a pleated skirt and before you know it, they’re sleeping on the bed and lounging all over our sofa in the form of two beautiful velvet cushions and a faux-fur throw. We are, of course, referring to leopard print.
Styling Tips Emerald Green Interiors - A History
Sultry, verdant and mystical – emerald green, in all its lusciousness has been sprawling through our homes like an ever-green creeper; slowly taking root in every nook. Synonymous with cool elegance, emerald green has been a calming influence on our interiors for the past 18 months, soaring in popularity thanks to the softening subtly and welcoming texture of luxury velvet upholstery and home accessories, and chalky paint finishes
Styling Tips Fresh Smelling Home Tips: Where to Place Scented Candles
A beautiful scent can really set the scene in your home; whether it’s the heady aroma of fresh lavender or the sweet, floral notes of roses and peonies, your chosen scent is what gives your house its personality. Scented candles and reed diffusers are the perfect way to fragrance your home, but where should you […]
Sleep Guides The Most Interesting Sleeping Habits from Around the World
In a world so rich in culture and diversity, there’s one thing we all have in common: we love a good snooze. That said, our sleeping habits vary wildly from country to country. For example, taking a nap during the day here in the UK might be a sign that we’re not getting enough shuteye at night, whereas in other countries
Shopping Guides Classic Collections of Luxury Bed Linen for an Instant Bedroom Update
There are fewer things in this world that give such a simple pleasure than fresh bed sheets. From crisp, white cotton bed linen to a classically nostalgic William Morris print, we've refreshed our elegant bed linen collection for 2019 to ensure you get that 'new sheets' feeling every night.
Styling Tips For Homes That Smell as Good as They Look
Home is where the heart is, but the memories are intrinsically linked to the smells that titillate ourolfactory senses. The fragrances that fill our homes help create a mood and can have a huge impact on the way we feel about a space along with our overall feeling when at home. So, as we pack away the warming cinnamon and cloves,synonymous with the festive season, we look at how we can encapsulate the magic of fragrance; pairing scent with style and scheme for the ultimate finishing touch.
Styling Tips Get Ready for Christmas with These Stunning Guest Bedroom Ideas
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! It’s time to start bringing the decorations down from the attic, choosing a wrapping colour scheme and confirming who will be around your festive table this year. Yes, the Christmas countdown has begun. But just before we start jotting down gift ideas and peeling the sprouts, we're adding the finishing touches to our homes to ensure that loved ones staying with us this December remember their stay for all the right reasons.
Get To Know Us The History of French Bedroom Style
As French bedroom connoisseurs, we believe to fully understand why an item is as perennial and consistently desirable as a French bed, we need to look at its history – and boy, there's a whole lotta history!
Styling Tips Create an Oasis with Our New Collection
Botanical prints and whimsical feathered friends adorn the fabrics used in this bold collection of sumptuous bed linen, statement chairs and accent cushions - perfect for breathing life into your home
Shopping Guides Why a Beautiful French Bed Suits Every Style
We look at why a classic French bed suits every home from a modern apartment to a period property, we have a beautiful bed for every boudoir
Styling Tips 4 Autumn Trends For an Instant Interiors Update
Give your boudoir & living room an autumnal update for 2018 with our top interior trend picks: Leopard Print, Bold Florals & Rich Red Velvet Sofas
Styling Tips How Pink Became a Neutral
Find out how pink has gone from our favourite accent colour to our neutral of choice, with inspiration and ideas for a classically modern home.
Styling Tips Colour Splash | How To Go from Bland to Blue
From navy to indigo, velvet to silk The French Bedroom Company can help you get the latest interiors trend of luxurious dark blues into your home
Styling Tips Get Cosy For Winter | Luxury Cushions and Bed Linen
How to get cosy this winter with luxurious 100% natural linen bedding and cushions. Get the look with our stylists' tips
Get To Know Us Meet Lust Living | Blogger of the Month
We chatted with Olivia Silk of Lust Living interiors and lifestyle blog about pink, marble and gold interiors, inspiration and plans for 2018
Get To Know Us Meet Tamsyn Morgans | Blogger of the Month
This year, in the spirit of New Year's Resolutions we’re planning on using the FBC blog to get to know some of our favourite bloggers even better. Each month we’ll introduce a new blogging hero and delve a little more into their world, bringing you insider tips where we can find them. First up for January is the lovely Tamsyn from The Villa on Mount Pleasant. If you haven’t seen her blog already, you must visit and spend some time getting lost in the dreamy pastel world that she creates. Trust us, it’s addictive! She was nominated for an Amara Blog Award this year and it’s easy to see why. Here’s our ‘In Bed With’ interview with the lady in question
Shopping Guides Antler Chandeliers: Unique Lighting for Your Home
Top tips on styling your home with one of our unique, stylish real antler chandeliers
Styling Tips Get Guest Ready This Christmas
Christmas is the most wonderful, yet also most stressful and busiest, time of the year, so here's our top tips for being guest ready this Christmas.
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