Interior designer Emma Edmonds’ home is tiny but that doesn’t deter her from filling it with a host of unlikely items, including a full-size swing in the living room and a slipper bath on her patio. The result is a home full of furniture gems and joie de vivre
Emma Edmonds in her living room with her Maltese Terrier Maxi. The colour scheme is white with tobacco and rust as accent colours. The rug is from Kukoon. Photo: Tony Gavin
There’s a sign over Emma Edmonds’ bed which reads: “Spill salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck and fall in love whenever you can.” Emma says it’s from her favourite movie Practical Magic and she abides by it all – there is rosemary to the front of her house and lavender in the back garden, she does spill salt over her shoulder and she admits to falling in love regularly, though the current love of her life is 10-year-old Maxi, a Maltese Terrier.
It’s an eclectic collection of advice and judging by her home, eclectic should be her middle name. There is a lot of stuff in her bijou county Wicklow pad, every inch of wall space is covered with paintings and mirrors, and on every surface – there are, as she says herself, ‘about 400 tables’ – there are miniature houses, ceramic faces and Staffordshire dogs. There is even a full-sized swing in the middle of her living room. “I’m not a minimalist,” she laughs.