Christmas with Ella
Absolutely thrilled to open up the Christmas edition of House Beautiful magazine and find this gorgeous feature about the family home and Christmas preparations of ceramicist Ella Fletcher. Ella lives with her husband, Rory, and two young children, Daisy and Arthur, in Edinburgh and has decorated her home with tremendous style.
Christmas is a chaotic family affair with visitors arriving to swell the already busy household, which also includes two cats, Fergus and Alfie and cockapoo, Dougie. Ella has admitted on her Instagram stories that her house does not always look like this!
We arrived on a quiet school day, last December, she had done the bulk of her routine Christmas decorating. We brought flowers, additional greenery, a few rather lovely Scandinavian decorations to add to her collection, some wonderful stars and fairy lights from Lights 4 Fun, and some richly decorated wrapped presents and set about styling up.
The whole day was so joyous, it was a honour to get to know Ella and her family as I have admired her work for a long time. Christmas shoots are so much fun, we are looking, right now, for homes where the owners really enjoy going the extra mile. Your home does not have to be immaculate, we just want to see people with a really strong look, neither do you need to be a colourist, like Ella, you might be a minimalist with white walls against which a single over-sized star and a siimple piece of mistletoe has a huge amount of impact. Let me know if you or a friend has a home that comes to life in December!
And of course if you want to find out more about Ella’s beautiful home, have a read of the December issue of House Beautiful. It is full of inspiration to help us all have a fun-filled, joyous Christmas. There are some fascinating houses to enjoy alongside Ella’s, including the queen of colour, interior designer, Sophie Robinson; a well known instagrammed @mymulberryhouse, crumbs, with 1M followers! A gorgeous converted barn in Ireland, a bit more pared back, with a slightly industrial feel and several others, all really interesting.
Thank you Ella cannot wait to see what you do next!