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About Design_Soda_Ruthie

I write Design Soda, a design blog with a focus on interiors. My blog aims to be an unpretentious, stimulating, fun and naturally curious delve into inspirational design and Londoncentric culture. I describe my style as boho-eclectic and am open to most design which doesn’t look too serious or composed. As a design geek with a love of vintage and upcycling, I am passionate about my home and love blogging ideas and looks that I find inspirational. Since the time when my teenage bedroom was an Aladdins cave of upcycled furniture, Cecil Beaton photography and Situationist slogans I have been interested in the way the home environment can make you feel and inspire your inner life. As a new mummy, trying to negotiate my passions with my lovely new baby's schedule can be difficult, but in my spare time you will often find me snapping the things that catch my eye in my wonderful home city London. Or, reading, upcycling, spending longer on Pinterest than I should, baking and watching old movies. I have a lifelong passion for French New Wave cinema.

Ideas for Occupying Kids during lockdown

March 28, 2020

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So, schools out for what may feel like forever (especially to little people) and parents the world over are staring down the barrel of a job they’re not qualified for, and if you’re trying to work full time alongside its even more daunting. Read More

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Stylish Streamlined Tools to take better care of your clothes the Scandinavian way

March 26, 2020

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*Contains gifted products.

Good afternoon, in these strange and unfathomable times where we are all spending much more time at home I’ve been thinking about posts that I can bring you that relate to things we will all be doing and the seasonal reorganisation of the wardrobe is the first on my list.Read More

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Hallway Makeover – a simple palette with pared back Scandinavian elements

March 20, 2020

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As soon as you start decorating one space, another four of five seem to hone into view! Read More
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Design Soda Beauty Edit: Products I rate in your late thirties

March 17, 2020

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Unsettling times in the world outside at the moment, I’m cocooning myself in blog writing and have a few posts in draft for the week ahead hoping to provide some light distraction. This one is an unusual post for me, and one that’s sat in draft for a while, because it’s a little off piste from the usual interiors fare on here, but don’t worry I am not after a beauty bloggers crown, just sharing some of the things I’ve tried over the last few years and have found worked for me. Read More
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MAKEOVER Reveal : A FIVE YEAR OLDS BEDROOM WITH A MID CENTURY COLOUR PALETTE, AND VINTAGE, Animal & Space accents.

March 11, 2020

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Wow, I went on a month long hiatus there, February was not good to us and we’ve been a house of germs, but I have also managed to decorate three new spaces (with two more in the pipeline!), Read More

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