Min Hogg

More on Paint and Pictures

So I did not win the Annie Sloan Chalk Paint giveaway on From the Right Bank, but that is OK as there is no need to paint the cabinet after all…

Now that it is here with me at home I am loving the mellow wood, but I do need to style the interior as well as change out the paper backing. I never like to use the word “pop,” but I think a little is called for to highlight my grandmother’s china. Right now I am considering everything from stripes, which I recently saw at The Upper Rust (more on that in a moment)…

to Farrow & Ball wallpaper…

or Min Hogg wallpaper.

And in the meantime, FTRB has posted a gorgeous Danish country lodge from the Italian edition of Marie Claire Maison, including the painted stairway in this entryway. After having the carpet guy over and being told all the ways I CAN’T have a sisal-type runner on my stairs, I am back to thinking about painting them. I keep returning to the idea of painted treads, just like these.

Loving the kitchen and the tightly hung artwork elsewhere in this charming house too.

On that note, the art arrangement in my elder daughter’s room is coming along nicely – I just have to get up the courage to start making holes in the wall. A mixture of Japanese paintings and prints, with some fun memorabilia thrown in for good measure.

And I picked up this vintage letter print for the guest room at The Upper Rust, which I re-discovered via Habitually Chic. This East Village antique store is a perfect compendium of the best pickings, all in one location. Imagine you combed estate sales and flea markets everyday for a year – that is a great description of the shop. For more great photos, be sure to check out Heather’s post!

If you are looking to decorate a casual place in a hurry, shopping here could save you years…
Image credits: 1-2 & 7-8. me, 3. via Farrow & Ball, 4. via Min Hogg, 5-6. Marie Claire Maison via From the Right Bank

Jul 27, 2011 By tokyojinja in Interior Design, Renovation and Decoration Report, Shop Talk Tags: Farrow & Ball, Min Hogg, The Upper Rust

Sea Feathers and Coral…Wallpaper from Min Hogg and Inspiration from Ben Pentreath

“Why does everything have to be so perfect? Nothing in real life is, you know.”
Min Hogg

Thanks to An Aesthete’s Lament for the quote above, but I do believe Min Hogg’s new line of wallpapers and fabrics is absolutely perfect.

First, this photo caught my eye because I have been thinking about using antique porcelain in the bathroom. But the wallpaper held it and sent me looking for more!

min hogg sea antler blue on white bathroom — Sea Antler Blue on White

This particular pattern comes in other colorways including the White on Pigeon Grey below and White on Pigeon Pink. I am obsessed with any color with the word pigeon in it – as they are always perfect softly grayed colors.

min hogg sea antler white on pigeon grey — Sea Antler White on Pigeon Grey

And I have to include this quintessentially English room – it comes alive with its sea feather patterned wallpaper.

min hogg Sea-feather stripe pink and grey — Sea Feather Stripe, pink and grey

As many of you know, I am in the thick of a bathroom renovation in our beach house in New Jersey. It is a late 19th century Victorian cottage and the bathroom fittings are simple and white. I had been planning on using Farrow & Ball’s Pale Powder on the walls, but now I might be headed in a different direction….towards Min! Add my blue-green glass and the coral I found in Guam this weekend and I am done!

I could post them all, but there are too many colors and patterns. They can also be printed on fabric and custom colored. But best of all, the prices are extremely reasonable!

For those of you who may not know who she is, Min Hogg was the founder and editor-in-chief of The World of Interiors for over 20 years. I look forward to reading that magazine like none of the other interiors publications as it often surprises but never bores me. It is exciting to see this new venture of hers!

My original obsession with coral and sea feather prints comes from early 19th century transferware. But this past year I have been turning to this photo from Ben Pentreath’s London shop again and again for inspiration in decorating my beach house. So I jumped over to check his website…

and this is the current post I found there!

Take a look at his website, or better yet, visit the shop on Rugby Street in London like I did last May!

Image credits: 1-11 via Min Hogg, 12-13 via Ben Pentreath

Nov 29, 2010 By tokyojinja in Design Motif, Interior Design Tags: Ben Pentreath, fabric, Min Hogg, The World of Interiors, wallpaper