Interior blogger Erica Davies Reveals How to Get Insta-Perfect Home Decor

When Instagram is so full of beautifully curated homes, knowing what to do with your own interiors can feel a little overwhelming. Do you want to go minimalist and cool? Maximalist and edgy? Colourful and eclectic?

If you're hoping to inject a variety of bold colours and clashing prints into your home but aren't really sure where to start, fashion and interiors blogger Erica Davies, who has just launched her second collection with QVC, has the answer.

She advises starting off small and choosing items your eye naturally marries together, in order to make the clashing prints or colours (or both!) pleasing. "The best way to make it work is to start off small," Erica tells the Cosmopolitan UK. "Because I was a fashion editor for so long, I’m quite comfortable mixing prints, but I totally understand it can feel daunting.

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AD || MORNING! I am very excited to share the news that my second collection for @qvcuk is now live! And it includes THIS: the leopard foot stool! It was on the vision board for the very first collection, but it’s taken a few samples to get it exactly right (I wanted her to be round and with a slightly midcentury sensibility) So here she is! She’s in a velvet finish and is also big enough to plonk (technical term) a round tray on top, if you fancy her multi-tasking as a coffee table too! We’ve also added leopard storage boxes to the new collection, which would also work in children’s spaces - and I LOVE the new take on my original LOVE sign, which is an amazing set of marquee lights. There’s a new botanical rug design and lots more. More on Stories - and more soon! Thanks so much for your support, it means the ? (And please remember to tag any pic from the collection in your own home ➡️ #editedbyerica so I can see and share!) . . UPDATE: THE LINKS ARE NOW ALL WORKING!!

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"If you start with something like cushion covers, you can easily inject a mixture of prints into your home by looking for common themes. If one cushion is navy and white stripe, and you want to mix it with a floral, look for a navy or a white colour within that floral. Your eye then connects the colours together, making the mix of prints and colours work."

By having a commonly occurring colour, you're able to introduce other colours into the mix, as well as complementary patterns. So while one cushion might be pink and white leopard print, providing another cushion has some white in it, you could introduce a blue, or an orange.

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Thank you all so much for the amazing response to my last post. Thank you for all the messages and comments too, they meant a lot! In OTHER news, we’ve just started Game Of Thrones. Series one, episode three! So I guess we’ll understand what everyone is talking about on Twitter in around six years, yes?! ? #LateToTheParty #NoSpoilers #IAmJoking #ericadavieshouse

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Speaking about why it's so important to clash different textures together, Erica added, " You want your decor to contain things that are soft and shiny, and rough and smooth and all those contradictions.

"I like lots of layers in a home, and to build those up gradually - that’s what makes up a beautiful home setting!"

Consider us sold.