A Breathtaking Abode That Celebrates Deadening Living

Do you lot sometimes discovery that you lot walk (or click) into a store in addition to dear absolutely everything you lot lay your eyes on? That's how I experience close INGREDIENTS LDN. Owned past times Nina in addition to Craig Plummer, the boutique interior in addition to lifestyle store celebrates a slower footstep of living. "It's close taking fourth dimension to produce things alongside aid in addition to intention," Nina says. "It’s a recognition of the importance that fourth dimension in addition to attending play inward enabling us to enjoy the modest moments that give everyday life pregnant in addition to value." The duo's incredible Georgian bird inward Edinburgh shares the same simple, calm in addition to organic feel. I asked Nina to depict the renovation in addition to décor inward her ain words.

"Last yr nosotros moved into an one-time Georgian bird alongside beautiful proportions in addition to large windows but alongside fiddling else going for it. Pretty much every corner was inward demand of consummate renovation. Several spaces had been subdivided during the 1960s which disrupted the carefully considered Georgian proportions."

"What is at nowadays the kitchen had really been divided into 3 separate cramped, nighttime spaces. We ready close renovating in addition to restoring the entire apartment, including removing walls in addition to moving bathrooms. We are alone but approaching the terminate of the long renovation stage alongside unopen to function even in addition to thus going on in addition to much of the slice of furniture in addition to décor even in addition to thus to hold out added."


"Our dwelling was renovated in addition to decorated inward describe alongside the ethos of our store INGREDIENTS LDN. We used natural materials such equally linen, wool, ceramics in addition to bare wood. We also used materials that larn a patina over fourth dimension such equally brass or copper in addition to a neutral, calming coloring palette."




"Our kitchen was made using sustainably harvested forest in addition to natural marble that ages beautifully, alongside brass in addition to copper finishes. Most of our slice of furniture is vintage in addition to the details in addition to finishing touches are a combination of vintage items in addition to the artisan-made items nosotros offering inward our store."

"The purpose of natural rather than synthetic materials is the primal aspect that binds both the visual aesthetic of our store in addition to our dwelling together. Using this value equally a guiding low-cal helped us to make the calming infinite nosotros were after, that could serve both equally my studio in addition to equally a peaceful house for my hubby in addition to myself to retreat to."  
 
"Our dwelling is even in addition to thus really much a function inward progress but nosotros desire to allow it evolve piece of cake in addition to naturally alongside fourth dimension in addition to use. Our dwelling is where nosotros remainder in addition to recharge, but it also serves equally my house of function in addition to the backdrop for our business. The fact that nosotros tin fulfill the diverse needs of our describe organisation in addition to our personal lives inward ane infinite is what I dear most close it."

"All of the products nosotros offering inward our store transcend through our hands, many of them are used past times us on a daily Earth in addition to thus that nosotros tin genuinely sympathise their merits in addition to unique qualities. As nosotros hold to discover, exam in addition to add together novel unique products in addition to artisan made goods to our range, I am certain our dwelling likewise volition hold to evolve inward interesting ways."


Thank you lot in addition to thus much for inviting us into your breathtaking Edinburgh dwelling Nina!

Looking through the pictures I was directly transported dorsum to my days at  The University of Edinburgh - my flatmates in addition to I lived inward a few dissimilar Georgian apartments, but they didn't expect quite similar this (there were traffic cones inward the hallway for starters....). If you've never been to this Scottish metropolis it's definitely ane for the go list!

For to a greater extent than inspiration you lot tin also read their online journal in addition to follow along on instagram (I'm an avid follower of both!). And of course of report larn the expect past times shopping away at INGREDIENTS LDN!

Is in that place anything that stood out to you lot inward particular? 

Have a lovely day!

Niki

I've finished my pattern talks on the Scandinavian cruise in addition to we're at nowadays Dover bound! So looking frontwards to giving my solid unit of measurement a stor kram (big hug) dorsum inward Sweden!


Photography courtesy of INGREDIENTS LDN.