I know this sounds like a bizarre goal but once your home ends up in a magazine, you start getting a little greedy and wanting to be in more. I know, I know, I should just be happy with the fact it was in 25 Beautiful Homes and Red Magazine (and trust me, I am – I’m freaking AMAZED by that) but when I was asked by Kathy Hurst, the journalist I worked with on 25BH if she could have ‘first dibs’ on our bathroom remodel, I certainly wasn’t going to say ‘no’ right? Of course, at the time, it was still early days and the bathroom was still a torn up wreck at that point so the pressure was on to ensure it was ‘magazine worthy’ by the end of it.
Well, I’m thrilled to say that a few months’ ago, photographer Jon Parker Lee was sent to my home to take pictures of our incredibly tiny, awkward little bathroom for Your Home magazine (the UK’s 2nd best selling homes magazine after Ideal Home). Bless him, despite having a smile on his face the entire time he was here, I’m sure he had to go straight to the chiropractor as soon as he left!!
(Update!) Here’s a couple of Jon‘s fabulous shots:
Copyright Jon Parker Lee
Copyright Jon Parker Lee
Copyright Jon Parker Lee
Copyright Jon Parker Lee
Now, I think there’s a big difference between US Magazine shoots and UK magazine shoots just from what I’ve read of other US bloggers’ experience. In the US, they send a TEAM of people including stylists and makeup artists and they come with a bucket load of accessories to style the space and the homeowner too! Here, it’s a bit more simple – they send a photographer and that’s about it! So that might explain why in the picture, my hair is all over the place and I look a bit like a man. Hmm. (I’m never happy with pictures of myself but then, who is?!). Someone to do my makeup and hair would have been nice – I think I could have used it that day! Ha!
Never mind, I’m thrilled with the pictures of the bathroom and he’s somehow made it look a lot bigger than it actually is! It took about 4 hours to get the whole thing shot, I answered Kathy’s questions via email and provided her with my sources and a few months later, there’s my bathroom in a magazine.
Incredibly excited and so happy my little bathroom got a chance to shine! Thank you so much Kathy for having faith in me and to Jon for being so lovely and patient with the awkward space :)
If you are in the UK, you can pick it up this month pretty much anywhere they sell magazines!
Congratulations! Wish I could buy a copy
that’s awesome Kimberly!! :)
Well done Kimberly! It looks so great. Can’t believe it took 4 hours!
W00t! It looks amazing! You should be pleased as punch.
P.S. Hush your face about looking like a man!
P.P.S. You notice I have said nothing about the curtain rail! :P
Congratulations! Your bathroom is truly unique and beautiful:)
Congratulations, Kimberly! Fantastic and richly deserved. Oh! And you look great in your photo! Sue
Congrats Kimberly! That is just too cool!
Would love to see the magazine in person!
Congrats! How very exciting! Love this magazine and reading about people’s makeovers, but knowing some of the back story on yours from reading about it here it will be even more ‘real’ and inspiring! Best go treat myself to a copy, and stop hoping too much that one day my total mess of a cottage will be magazine-worthy, if not actually published!
This is so great my friend! Always a thrill to be in print and your spread is just lovely! So well-deserved! You look gorgeous and that bathroom is amazing :) xoxo
That is fabulous!!! Great job
Yaaaay Kimberly!! Congratulations!! This is so amazing sweets. I love your bathroom. Its so beautiful. Im still completely in disbelief that you are IN your 40s and also #thattilethough:)
Eep! Congratulations- and very well deserved :) I love that magazine, and now have two reasons to buy it. Is it OK if I start bragging about being your Internet Friend to everyone in WH Smiths when I buy it? Yes?
xxx
P.S. I think you look like a sultry salsa dancer in that photo. Gorgeous.
this is so amazing – congrats! i would looooove to see my home in a magazine one day – something to work towards!
I just love your bathroom – so chic and relaxing. Great job and congrats on the magazine!!
Wow, it looks incredible! You have such beautiful style, Kimberly- So full of life and personality!
Emily xxx
Your bathroom is truly gorgeous and interesting – and how shiny is your black sink?!
Congratulations on the magazine feature, very exciting! I don’t often buy magazines, but Lumberjack came home from the shops with a copy of Your Home for me last month, and I really liked it. It doesn’t have too many adverts in, and has quite achievable ideas – aimed at people who don’t have thousands of pounds to spend! I had a very enjoyable Saturday evening reading it, sipping on cocktails, and drunkenly scribbling down ideas in a notepad! I’ll have to get this months so I can check out your feature!
Maria x
Congrats Kimberly! Good Job dear :)
Congratulations Kimberly! I like it your Glod and White Bathrooms.