It seems right now that everybody we talk to wants more, wants it better or would gladly trade their first born for a great night of it. We’re talking sleep (obviously – what were you thinking?) and have teamed up with the memory foam mattress
It’s Emma here, popping on this Other’s Day to talk for the first time in public about my own estrangement. I know weird, right? Weird I never mentioned it until now. Well, if you’d asked me a year ago, I would’ve told you that I
Father’s Day can be so tough for so many reasons. Maybe you don’t have a Dad around, or would prefer to not have the Dad who is. Maybe you’d like to be a Dad and can’t, or were a Dad but aren’t anymore. Maybe you’re
Over the years, through our own losses and through being invited into the losses of so many of you wonderful people, we’ve had the privilege of learning a few coping mechanisms – things that can help in the run-up to a day like Father’s Day
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology and one woman’s unwavering dedication to early-morning interviews, we managed to hook up with Alica Forneret, all the way from the US, where she runs her website, Instagram and multiple newsletters, all aimed at helping people to not
Every Other’s Day, we invite our incredible community to share their stories, poems, photos, art – anything, designed to act as a little creative stick in the sand for anybody who needs a little support. It makes us cry every time, but those really lovely
Who is Sophie Williams? Well, a TED Speaker, leading anti-racism advocate, activist, and the author of two books – Anti Racist Ally and Millennial Black, which is coming out this April. Her writing also features in appeared in publications such as The Guardian, Bustle, Glamour,
Tell us a little about what you do and how you work with people like us, who find Mum stuff really sad or challenging? I am a HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist working within the NHS, as well as the Director of a private therapy service,
[ad: sponsored blog post] You might be thinking – what on earth is she talking about? Ovens can be boring and mainly come in white, black or, at a push, a gentle, tonal grey. They can be an unsightly central point in the kitchen. But
Just before Christmas we sat down to a digi-natter with Africa Daley-Clarke aka The Vitamin D Project. Known for creating the most amazing interiors in her small social housing flat in Islington, she’s transformed it into a Tardis of good taste, and, crucially, a workable
It suddenly got realllly cold, right? In a year where we’re all struggling to self-soothe, comfort is paramount. As the the days draw in being snuggly, warm and cosy as hell is the very least we can do for ourselves. Handily, we’re here to signpost
When we were asked if we wanted to give the DataColor ColorReader a whirl, we both jumped at the chance but for very different reasons. It calls to Emma’s innate desire to plan, gather elements of the inspirational and then exhaust all possible options before
By day she’s Noor Hassan, teacher of psychology, but when night falls, she puts her underpants on over her trousers and delves into the cut-throat underworld of sustainable interiors, biophillic design and the art of feng shui. She overcomes floods with one flick of her
This is 100% Robyn. You know why? Cos I LOVE PERFUME. And Emma likes perfume a normal amount. Emma doesn’t have seasonal perfumes. She just has a perfume. And a bloody nice one too. It’s Miller Harris L’Air de Rien, if you’re wondering. But just
Every year, the wonders that are Dulux do a whole bunch of research and testing and watching and listening, and they identify a colour that not only sums up the decorative zeitgeist, but that looks to bring out the best in people’s spaces and sense
It’s August (how?), it’s raining (probably), and we’re all coming out of lockdown (we think..?). It’s been a quiet affair over here on the blog over the past few months, but we are BACK and ready to rumble. Or, if not rumble, talk about some
We were meant to post this absolutely stellar sex toy round up in February with the rest of Sex Month. And then one million other things happened, ranging from vibrator theft (there’s going to be a very happy postal worker out there) to the various
This week we had the absolute best chat with Amber of The Grief Gang fame. Amber lost her mum to a heart attack when she was nineteen and it changed her world forever. She used the experience of being bereaved at an early age and
Ever felt like you had a big emotional something trying to get out, but felt a bit stuck? Sometimes pain is difficult to access, and our brain will do literally anything before it’ll look at it (hello, bad decisions we made in our 20s). Although
We started Other’s Day because Mother’s Day was really tough for us but it’s tough for Emma in a completely different way than it is for Robyn and it’s tough for Robyn in a completely different way than it is for Tom, Dick or indeed
In a time of coronavirus, conversations about grief are more important than ever. Losing a person under the impossible conditions a global pandemic present is unimaginable. Sarah Jane wanted to share her account of losing her father and the comfort a nurse called Caroline provided
Rather than a round-up of products and things we’re loving this month, we thought we’d use May’s first blog post to spotlight some of the great things we’ve seen coming out of lockdown. It’s a tough, tough time, but, in amongst it all we’ve seen
The following post includes some gifted items This has been a really, really, really long time coming but apparently only a prolonged case of social isolation was enough to get me to pull myself together, order the standing desk converter and get my home office
Welcome to my bedroom. This is where the magic happens. Actually, not very much interiors magic has ever happened in here – it’s always been one of the worst rooms in the flat, and possibly the world. Let me break it down for you: firstly,
You know how it is: you want a sexy fabric-covered pinboard for your workspace, but can’t find a sexy fabric-covered pinboard in the exact size and dimensions you want. Tale as old as time. But dry those eyes, because I’ve found a hack and I’m
We started Other’s Day because when we were going through the worst times in our lives, having somebody else there who got it was like knowing the world wasn’t going to collapse around you. So, in a time when everything feels very uncertain, we want
*Trigger warning – this post explores baby loss and miscarriage* Baby loss and miscarriage, it’s pretty universally acknowledged, is something that we don’t talk about enough so we’re so privileged to be able to share Nathasha of la_sidhu‘s moving and painfully honest account of her
Dr Emma Svanberg knows a lot about Mums. In fact, she probably knows the most about Mums – psychologically-speaking – out of everybody we know. She’s the clinical psychologist behind blog The Mumologist, and we spoke with her about why Mother’s Day can be tough,
If you’re struggling over Mother’s or Father’s Day and in the run-up to it, you are not alone. Far from it – we know first hand how many people out there aren’t able to enjoy time with their Mums, and this year, more people than
March isn’t quite what we expected at all and we want to give you a blog post that will help you navigate it, insofar as a lifestyle blog can help in a global health crisis. We can’t source you toilet roll or give you a
When you’re running something called Sex Month, you wanna speak to people who know their pleasure. In particular, their female pleasure. So we did what any rational people would do and hit up the queens of getting your orgasmic rocks off, Anniki Sommerville and Lisa
The clue is in the title. Well, not actually cos we’d probably die if we did that for a full month. But we are going to be looking at sex, sexuality and specifically female pleasure in the coming (geddit?) weeks because we’re female and we
You can’t meet TV presenter AJ and not love her. There, we said it. Her energy, enthusiasm and general awesomeness are perfectly mirrored by her home, which she recently renovated to greatness. All pristine white and bolts of bright, she’s spent time figuring out her
All Up In My Space is one year old today! Huge moment for us – we still remember talking about what it might look like over brunch, when it was just a twinkle in our eye. Now we’re a whole year and we’re throwing our
…being AMAZED that we’ve nearly been doing this for a whole effing year. Can you believe it? We launched All Up In My Space on Feb 1st 2019 and never looked back – what a mad 12 months it’s been. We’re also planning some pretty
This post is part of a paid partnership with Colourtrend Paints I, Emma Rachel Crap Flat, am 34 and until last weekend I had never painted a wall. Sprayed a vase, yes. Cured a cupboard, of course. But painting just hadn’t happened for me. I’ve
It’s the most wonderful tiiiime of the year… Right? With the kids jingle belling and everyone telling you, ‘Be of good cheer’. And the endless shopping lists and streams of relatives and delicious food and constant minor hangovers and joyful high points and tricky family
So we’re into fragrance. We talk about it a lot. We think it’s underrated both in the home and on your person (not your person, I’m not saying you, personally smell funky). Scenting is the final flourish of personal style. You pop on your perfume
The perfect gift for the aunty you secretly hate? How to say, ‘Thanks for Brexit, Dad’ with socks? We got you, guys. Post contains some affiliate links To Mr Crap Flat, love Emma Dear Mr Crap Flat, thank you for putting up with my incessant
…getting festive. At least our own versions of festive. Robyn’s is an explosion of colour and gold and opulence and joy, while Emma’s is a single lonely stick looming over a stark white candle that’s already burnt out. It’s a funny old time of year
Or another excuse to talk about the award we won It’s so tempting to type this all in wingdings or like, yng ppl txt chat, ROFL to undermine the fact we won Best Written Blog at the Amara IBAs but that would make us dicks,
[This post is sponsored by IKEA] Ok, Robyn is flying solo on this one and apparently Robyn is also talking about herself in the third person again… no stop, let’s start this fresh. I was absolutely made up, and slightly terrified when IKEA got in
I never liked the lounge. It did nothing for me. We were battling textured wallpaper, dimensions that would make an architect weep and a rug that has seen more wee incidents than a changing mat. When we arrived I knew I couldn’t afford to have
Ok, we’re excited about November. Why? I’ll tell you why. Parties! Lots of Parties! And outfits! And diamonds! And shoes! November seems to be the new December with all the holiday revelry happening this month. There’s book parties (Robyn), awards parties (both) and pants parties
This is it. Imagine the music from 2001 A Space Odyssey playing. It’s been months in the making, forever in the teasing, and now, finally, it is here. My very own workspace. I cannot tell you what a difference this is already making to my
You know what me and Emma have in common? Apart from a sparkling wit and dazzling good looks? Absolutely nothing. Well, almost absolutely nothing. We do have a corner conundrum each and we’ve been wracking our collective brain to fix it. We actually share one
‘Do you remember, the very first night in October’… no that’s not right. ‘Ahhh sweet October rain’ – nope not that either. Welcome to October, the sadly songless month. BUT what it lacks in melody, it makes up for with an assault on all other
What happens when you cross Simpsons everything with outrageous sign-making talent and a love of gold leaf that just won’t quit? You get Alex May Hughes, duh. And we love Alex May Hughes. We love her enough to hop on a train and go all
For those of you who can reach far enough back into the mists of time, yes, I’ve been talking about this room re-do since early August. I’ve teased it, I’ve talked it up and now, finally, it’s here for your delectation and ultimate judgement. It’s
“Grey walls, grey floors and a grey sofa in my rental! How to inject some colour and life?’ We both have a LOT of opinions on this, so @anneliyancek, you couldn’t have come up with a better question! And actually, yours wasn’t the only request
[This post is part of a paid campaign with Made.com] So a few weeks ago we got an email. An email unlike any other. It made us gasp with joy. It was Made.com and they were all like ‘wanna curate a window each in our
Being nominated for an award This blog – this very blog that you are reading with your actual eyes – has been nominated for Best Written Blog in the Amara IBAs. Competition is stiff (snigger), so we’re counting on every last vote we can scrounge
Find us somebody more joyful to be around than W.A. Green‘s creator Zoe and we will show you two very surprised people. Named for her Grandad, W.A. Green is a treasure trove of everything you ever wanted for your home and then some. It’s a
It’s a thing, dammit. Dress Like Your Home is a thing, and we want you to join in. You know we don’t take no for an answer. A while back (waaaay before blog time), the two of us realised that not only do we decorate
…making big changes in our spaces. It’s all aboard the choo-choo train to excitementville as we welcome some exciting new ideas into our homes. Robyn: finally getting a new sofa My sofa looks excellent. Especially when you consider that it was only £200 off eBay
You know how this works – you ask us a question on Instagram, we answer it on here, the world gasps, we get a Nobel Prize (probably). This week, @shugsnrodley wanted to know how to keep a theme running through an entire home renovation, and
Here beginneth a new chapter in the All Up In My Space book (can you image how great that book would be?) – we’re launching our newest category and it is called Workspace. As the name suggests, it focuses on the spaces we work in,
…whizzing around like our pants are on fire. Except that instead of burning underwear we’ll be running from event to person to place and back again, in a whirlwind of activity that likes to call itself July. THEN we can set fire to our pants.
The thing that gets the most love on my insta grid? My incomplete circles. The reason that’s especially gratifying? I made them myself. And it. Was. So. Easy. So I thought I’d pop over to All Up In My Space and show you just how
It’s taken me so many goes to write this. I just couldn’t get the sentiment across. I wanted to talk about my amazing Dad who looked after me and my brother and sister after my Mum died when I was six years old. I wanted
How the heck do you even deal when somebody you love is having a massive struggle? Do you talk to them about it? Stage an intervention? Keep quiet in case talking about it makes things worse? Get them drunk? Take them on an intensive silent
The whole thing about Other’s Day is that there’s no right or wrong way to handle grief or pain – absolutely everybody does it differently, and that’s completely ok. One of the things people say to us most is that it’s been really helpful to
…living la vida paper with a competition from Oh Deer (scroll to the bottom), embarking on personal projects in our spaces and bringing back Other’s Day with a supportive bang. Come on, June, let’s do this. Saying thank-you for our award In case you didn’t
Firstly, suspend your disbelief – you might think elopement has very little to do with spaces but you’d be dead wrong. We ran away because we couldn’t bear the idea of getting married in the spaces available to us. We could have done it in
Oh, the dank staircase. Scourge of rental flats and renovations everywhere – nothing says, ‘Fuck off out of my home’ like swinging light bulbs and dirty carpets. @embob22 asked us, ‘I have a narrow, cramped hallway with stairs that lead up to the flat –
…swanning around in feathered chiffon dressing gowns and saying things like, ‘I can’t stand it when rosé season is over, darling.’ Who’s with us? In reality, these are the things we’re excited about this month… Being shortlisted for a fucking award Seriously, we are dee-lighted
Who, us? We’re just two carefree girls-about-town who’ve teamed up with ASOS* to dress like our homes and offer tips on it like we’re some kind of professional outfit. We pillaged ASOS Supply and went to town on ASOS new season fashion, and pulled together
Vicki from @WheelChicHome is one of those people both of us speak to a lot on Instagram. We’ve always loved her home, and had ALL of the time for her work around #inclusivechic and MS awareness, so we were ruddy delighted when she said we could
One windy Saturday, we took ourselves off to North London in search of vintage mecca MoseyHome, where we were going to play Style My Shop with owner Mary, and have our photos taken by lovely Tom. Getting all up in MoseyHome Emma: Mary, tell us
Florence and James’ home kind of defies categorisation. It’s a house, a workshop, an event space, a roof terrace, and it’s all put together like a never-ending warren, so that every time you think you’ve seen it all there’s another bit you definitely haven’t. Florence
…debriefing after Other’s Day. Not taking our pants off (though we might do that too) but taking stock, seeing what we learned, and generally spinning that into something useful. That probably won’t take a full month, so we might try and fit some other stuff
The last post in this week’s Other’s Day series is an interview with Steve Bland. Steve’s wife Rachael died last year from cancer, leaving behind her husband and their young son, Freddie. Before she died, Rachael wrote a book for Freddie, about her life. We’ll
We invited three very excellent women to join us for a chat about how they feel around Mother’s Day. Sandra @theidlehands, Stephanie @stephanienwks and Joanne @hardcastletowers have all been through, or are going through, some pretty traumatic Mum stuff, and did us the absolute honour
With Mother’s Day around the proverbial corner, we’re bringing you Other’s Day – a day for people who, for whatever reason, feel left out by traditional celebrations. It could be that your Mum’s not around. Maybe she is, but the relationship is tricky. Maybe you’re
Let’s begin this like an early-00s sixth form magazine article – with a dictionary definition. The dictionary defines a nook as, ‘a corner or recess, especially one offering seclusion or security’ which is right up both our proverbial strasses. Big shout-out to the person who
Firstly, that’s not a hideous euphemism. Secondly, this is not my new sex dungeon. I’ve been trailing the red room for ages and finally it’s time to unleash her to the world in all her red, white and blue (and yellow) glory. My interior abomination
Having our birthdays! Yep, like two people who were probably separated after a long and well-decorated birth, we celebrate our big 3-4 two days apart, which means we get to party twice as hard. For ‘party’, read, ‘sit down’ and for ‘twice as hard’, read,
In the interests of explaining exactly what we think we’re doing here, and what this whole damn thing is about, the two of us sat down (in separate houses – like the Spice Girls, we actually can’t stand to be in the same room) and
So, This Is How We Do It (good luck getting that out of your head). In a nutshell, this is a chapter of the blog where we get all up in your space from afar, taking your home styling dilemmas and putting our own wildly
Who, us? At the Made.com showroom re-launch with Lianne @albertandmoo and Siouxsie @too_much_leopard? With our reputation? You’re damn diggedy right, and we had the most fun we could’ve had with our clothes on. A bit of backstory: Made.com have had a showroom on London’s Charing
Ah, February, the month we all start to think about what we want from the year ahead. No wait, that doesn’t sound right. January be damned – what are we going to DO this year? Skill you want to learn… Robyn: being more organised. I’m
Because we’re a pair of lucky buggers, we got to go to the M&S Home SS19 preview. Not gonna lie, we liked a lot of it. Most of it. Ok, we loved all of it and got caught on the way out trying to steal
Natalie Lee is a fashion blogger, former midwife and current queen of the podcast. A body positivity advocate, she’s an unrelenting explorer of emotions and flasher of the Friday Finger. Join us as we dig down to learn about how the intricacies of her life
