\nInterior designer Emma Edmonds\u2019 home is tiny but that doesn\u2019t 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\n<\/p>\n
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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<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a sign over Emma Edmonds\u2019 bed which reads: \u201cSpill salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck and fall in love whenever you can.\u201d Emma says it\u2019s from her favourite movie Practical Magic and she abides by it all \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s 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 \u2013 there are, as she says herself, \u2018about 400 tables\u2019 \u2013 there are miniature houses, ceramic faces and Staffordshire dogs. There is even a full-sized swing in the middle of her living room. \u201cI\u2019m not a minimalist,\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interior designer Emma Edmonds\u2019 home is tiny but that doesn\u2019t deter her from filling it with a host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,61989,501,156,120890,130545,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-285126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-brown-thomas","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-life-magazine","16":"tag-mary-osullivan","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}