Create your sanctuary: Transform your home into a 5* hotel

In our new series titled 'Creating your sanctuary' we'll be sharing key design principles to help you to style your home. However, in this first blog post of the series we're looking at what you can immediately do to make it feel like you're in a 5 star hotel.

We believe that your home should reflect and be an extension of your personality. It's a place where we can safely retreat from the outside world and decide how much or how little of it we let in. When we walk through our front door, we want it to feel like our sanctuary; a space where we and our loved ones feel at ease and happy. Without a doubt, creating and living in a beautiful home enhances your well-being and is just as important to your health as eating the right foods. 

Good taste doesn’t cost anything, it’s about how you style things. It's important to make every item earn its keep, so buy quality pieces that you can see yourself having around forever. Of course, you can always add in a little surprise now and then!

Scents have a legendary ability to transport us back to our earliest memories. We all have certain things, that when we smell them, can make us feel really emotional. That’s because, in very simplistic terms, the receptors in our nose send messages to our amygdala, our memory bank for emotional experiences.

Smell is our most evocative sense and surrounding ourselves with perfume which makes us feel good, is something that is very easy to do. Not only does it make us feel good, it can also cover up smells that we don’t like so much, wet dog, [although a lot of people love this!], cooking or chemical smells from certain cleaning products. From scented candles and room sprays to diffusers, there's lots of options if you want to fragrance your home, and each one has a different role to play. We love our room sprays, diffusers and candles and their reusable bone china vessels. We've created scents that gets people talking - you can read about the different ones here.

 2. CANDLES

"Once the candle has burnt, use it as a tea light holder. It’s made from bone china so the light shines through it beautifully."