Visiting the Cabbages and Roses store in London is a huge feast for the senses, it's also a little bit of calm from the manic pace of the streets of Chelsea.

A few sentences from the founder of Cabbages and Roses Christina Strutt really sums up how I feel about homes, and if it includes a number of quilts then all the better.

The fact that I find all the Cabbages and Roses material truly stunning is just an added bonus.

Here is what Christina says.

"I have always firmly advocated that homes need to be filled with more than just lovely things. To be really beautiful, they must be lived-in, with the 'things' complementing the human stories that run through them