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A beautiful mum from Jack’s old nursery has set up an interiors company and I went along a few weeks ago to check out her first home sale.

The Small Home is about style and substance, carefully chosen artisan products that inspire your space. They are not perfect, mass-produced replicas. They are about inspiring a feeling and telling a story.

Before I went to see for myself I wondered what could they offer that hadn’t already been done before but I soon understood when I stepped into their space. It’s hard to explain it but there was definitely an atmosphere – a feeling of calm and of connection. This wasn’t just another accumulation of random bits and bobs to buy, things you don’t need and probably won’t use. There was a feeling of emotional well-being. An antidote to city living. A link to those who had created the pieces and to the places where they had been made. An intimacy that can only be created by a small home.

Those gorgeous giant candles on my mantlepiece:

My new metal star:

The Small Home

Looking back recently at my bathroom post here and here I am reminded that I never actually posted before and after shots of the work we had done to our family bathroom last summer. The main reason for this blog is to record the progress of the house!! I think I was waiting for the wall lights for next to the mirror – I have not found the perfect ones yet – but I’ve decided to post without them as it’s been six months since the work!

The existing family bathroom on the first floor was white and blue with plastic lino flooring, a fitted bath and an old, leaky, mouldy electric shower. After several leaks from the shower and toilet into the kitchen downstairs, we decided to refurbish the entire space and install a new boiler and central heating system (put up in the loft). Part of the work was to knock through into an airing cupboard on the landing to make maximum use of all available space and we put the shower in that space.

Here are the before shots:

: Tile effect lino floor

: Old shower

: Old sanitaryware

: White and blue tiles

and after:

: Burlington Regal toilet

: Lefroy Brooks Pedestal and nickel Long nosed taps

: Vintage mirror

: Rockett St George medicine cabinet

: HM toy basket

: Lefroy Brooks concealed shower

: Succulent

: Window frosted glass

: Cast Iron Bath Co. roll top painted in Railings

: St James polished Nickel towel rail

Wall tiles: Matt white metro tiles – Tons of Tiles
Floor tiles: Just Life Grey ceramic oak – Versatile
Shower floor tiles: East Hampton marble mosaic – Fired Earth
Shower: Lefroy Brooks 8″ shower head / Concealed Thermo with sliding rail / White lever head flow tap (all Nickel)
Wall paint: Blackened by Farrow & Ball
Woodwork: Wevet by Farrow & Ball
Bath: Millbrook Double ended roll top – The Cast Iron Bath Company
Window: Double glazed sash with frosted toughened glass
Boiler – Worcester Greenstar 30Ri