What’s inside Rebecca’s Cupboard?

Hello, and welcome to our last competition of 2019 – where did the year go? This month, we have a kitchen textile bundle that’s worthy of a domestic goddess… or god, for that matter!

The set – that comes complements of printmaker, Kate Guy – comprises an organic cotton tea towel, tote bag and apron in Kate’s gorgeous Rebecca’s Cupboard design.

Kate explains the inspiration behind her Rebecca’s Cupboard print:

The design is a linocut print I made of a friend’s kitchen shelves, she lives in the South of France and is an excellent cook. They grow a lot of their own produce and so she also makes lots of preserves and pickles. They have a small vineyard and make their own wine and grape juice, her husband is a keen forager; always coming home with wild mushrooms, asparagus and other local delicacies in season. Her daughter keeps bees and makes her own honey and her son is a keen fisherman, often providing a fresh wild caught trout for the lunch table. This rustic idyll is captured in this print.

If you’d love to win the bundle, tell us in our comments section below who tackles the kitchen chores in your house.

Rebecca’s Cupboard kitchen textile bundle

Luxury Egyptian cotton towel collection

We’ve been sent a lovely towel bundle from The Bath Store. Their timing was perfect! We’ve just started the repairs and redecoration of the bathroom in our little Welsh cottage.

This beach-scape painting, which we really love, was the inspiration and starting point for our new scheme. We wanted to pick up all those complimentary tones of stone, charcoal, coffee, taupe and cream.

We have white stone painted walls and woodwork painted in Little Greene shades called ‘White Whisper’, ‘Dash of Soot’ and ‘ Rolling Fog’. There’s natural wicker and wood dotted throughout the space, aged metalwork, some hand-thrown pottery and grey Welsh wool blinds in the ‘Senedd’ pattern.

The towels are a wonderful addition to the room. They’re made from 700 GSM luxury Egyptian cotton in ‘Latte’… a perfect shade.

In addition to being the ideal colour, they’re also lovely quality – plush and very absorbent.

The matching bathrobe feels soft and weighty – just what you need to wrap up in after a relaxing bubble bath.

We used to dread going in the old bathroom as it was cold and a bit bleak. It’s becoming much more inviting with each of the improvements that are made. There’s now heating and new fittings, redecoration is well under way… and that pile of warm, fluffy, Egyptian cotton towels to look forward to!

Price Points: Grey fabric doorstops

I’m nearing the finishing line with making my grey Welsh wool tapestry blinds for all our windows. Hopefully, they’ll help with keeping the winter draughts at bay! We’ve also been looking at a couple more door draught excluders to retain the heat in the downstairs rooms.

Another feature of our doors is that they either hang ajar when you close them… or swing shut when you want them to stay open. That’s what you get with an old, wonky house! We need some grey fabric doorstops (to go with the new blinds) to keep them in check.

My absolute favourite is the cute sheep – that’s also made from Welsh wool tapestry. He would echo the view we have of sheep grazing in the field opposite our house.

Grey and black filled fabric door stop with handle: £6.99, Homescapes
House by John Lewis felt door stop: £15.00, John Lewis
Nexus doorstop sheep, ash: £32.00, Melin Tregwynt

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