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Lighting your dining room: an interior designer’s tips

In a room where atmosphere is so important, how do you light your space? Read on for interior design...

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Goes well with – pairing pieces from our new autumn collection

Our design team choose four pieces from the new autumn collection to showcase just how well they com...

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A Bonfire Night supper: parkin cake

There’s something to really savour when it comes to Bonfire Night. Perhaps it’s because by then, we’...

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Deep & meaningful

How to embrace dark furniture and deep wood stains in your home.

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Making a non-Neptune statement

Designing so your Neptune piece sits back in your scheme allowing another item-of-interest to take c...

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Weaving in wood

To oak or not to oak? To go dark or remain on the light side? To stick or to twist? These are the qu...

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Kirstie & her Chichester kitchen

There are all sorts of ways that we discover our Real Neptune Homes, but one of our favourites is to...

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Understanding the colour wheel

Best friend of designers, the colour wheel is an essential starting point in decorating your home. A...

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A tale of three bookcases

Every year without fail, interiors writers the country over write stories of ringing the changes thr...

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Make more of your front door with paint

This autumn, our interiors anthology, Stories, turned ten-issues-old. So, to mark our entry into dou...

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Symmetry: thoughts from our founder

This autumn, our interiors anthology, Stories, turned ten-issues-old. So, to mark our entry into dou...

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Three moodboards to inspire autumn schemes

Throughout spring and summer, we spoke a lot of moodboards – how to use them and why to use them whe...

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Store styling – secrets from our stylists

‘Make yourself at home’ – that’s the phrase that probably best sums up the feeling that we want ever...

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Ways with Ink

Borderline-black shades of grey, abyss-deep blues and greens so dark that it’s only when the light h...

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Making comfort the statement of your room

When defining a room’s narrative, whether you’re working to a moodboard or a mental picture, there’s...

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The story of statements

Each time we launch a new collection here at Neptune, we’ll always share the inspiration behind it. ...

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Chocolate olive oil cake

Few things feel as indulgent as a generous slice of chocolate cake. That’s why we asked our lead Pro...

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Decorating inspiration: a trio of guest bedroom schemes

If yours is a home where there’s an unoccupied bedroom (or a few if you’re fortunate), instead of le...

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Making the most of landing areas

One of the parts of the home that’s talked about the least is the landing – or landing areas plural ...

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Reading a room

Interiors expert and former Livingetc editor Suzanne Imre explains how to read the proportions of yo...

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Sourcing stories: Clifton Coffee Roasters

Whenever you pop into our café at Neptune Bath – The Provenist – and order a cup of coffee, you’ll k...

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Two summer flower arrangements, step by step

In our ninth volume of Stories, Stories for summer, our resident floral expert, Hannah Redman, fresh...

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Get to know us: Ian from our distribution team

A few times a year, we like to introduce you to one of the many faces that make up the Neptune famil...

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Liz & her Chichester kitchen

Chichester is a kitchen that’s often brought into homes that want to create a classic English look. ...

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Asparagus, kale and gruyère springtime tart

During spring and summer months, a tart feels more appealing than a hearty pie. When autumn and wint...

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In the making: Belgian linen

Finely crafted linen fabric, grown, spun, woven and finished in Belgium. 

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Getting creative with tester paint pots

Have you ever ordered a tester pot (or two, or ten) to help you decide what colour to pick for your ...

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Sourcing stories: Teeny Greeny

Micro in name, micro in size, but microgreens aren’t to be confused with seedlings or shoots. These ...

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Behind the design: Holborn

Why? That’s what drives the design process at Neptune. Because when we create pieces with a genuine,...

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Three garden layouts for dining

Our head of store design, Fred, walks us through three ways to lay out a garden for dining.

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Jane & her Limehouse kitchen

Limehouse is known for being our more obviously contemporary kitchen collection, and because of that...

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English charred asparagus salad with feta and sourdough crumb

The first of our recipes from The Provenist (next-door to Neptune Bath) that we’ll be sharing on our...

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Planning a project: our guide to getting started

Whether you’re planning a top-to-bottom redecoration, an extension or a simple refresh for one room ...

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Sourcing stories: Bath Farm Girls

The first of only a few growers of British quinoa, Emily’s local farm is home to field upon field of...

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How to bring furniture into the middle of the room with Lauren Gilberthorpe

Whether your room’s big or small, there’s often a real temptation to position furniture around the e...

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Sourcing stories: Ivy House Farm

Whenever you’re sipping a cup of breakfast tea or a mug of frothy coffee at The Provenist, you have ...

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Our design team’s favourite furniture couplings

A few articles ago, we looked at how many styles of furniture to have in the same room so there’s ju...

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Eclectic versus composed : How many styles of furniture to have in a room

Whenever you’re designing a room in your home, be it from scratch or adding a few new pieces over ti...

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How to prepare your dining room for a gathering

With Easter on the horizon, we’re looking at the different ways that you can dress your dining area ...

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You can never have enough books

Though you might not think of yourself as a collector of anything, chances are, you’re a book collec...