Ideal Home Show 2023 highlights
The Ideal Home Show 2023 is well underway at Olympia London! The Show runs until Sunday 2 April, and tickets are still available. Here are the highlights so far…
The Good Homes Live roomsets
Packed with fresh ideas, the innovative, interactive and on-trend Good Homes Live roomsets at Ideal Home Show 2023 have been designed to include the latest products and coolest colour palettes to decorate your home.
‘This year is all about tactile materials, innovative technology, storage solutions, and finding ways to brighten up living spaces,’ says Karen Walker, Editor of Good Homes.
‘Implementing designer wallpapers, feature walls and and funky patterns are key to spicing up your living spaces. Our four roomsets embody all of this season’s top trends, from sleek and modern kitchens, to spa-like bathrooms, playful bedrooms, and contemporary living rooms.’
>>> Find out more about the roomsets here
The Good Homes Live Kitchen Disco roomset at Ideal Home Show 2023. Photo: Sam Frost / Media10
The Show Gardens
The Show Gardens at this year’s Ideal Home Show celebrate the top gardening trends of 2023. Designed by horticulturist and celebrity gardener David Domoney, they offer inspiration on designs, layouts and new additions you can make to your own outdoor space.
The four garden themes are: Grow Your Own Garden Inspired by Emmerdale, The King’s Garden Inspired by The Highgrove Gardens, Moroccan Sunset and Good Homes’ very own Coastal Calm garden, which encapsulates everything you love about an escape to the beach.
The Good Homes Live Coastal Cool Show Garden at Ideal Home Show 2023. Photo: Sam Frost / Media10
The Show Village
The Show Village is a real centrepiece of Ideal Home Show, featuring two incredible life-size homes that you can walk through, as well as the Super Theatre, where you can listen to a host of celebrities and experts offering their advice on all things homes, gardens and money-saving.
The first Show Home theme for 2023 is The Money Making Home by Framtio, sponsored by Sky Glass. This revenue-generating home has a fully furnished Airbnb built alongside the main house, plus energy-saving measures built in to help keep running costs down.
The second is The Great Escape Home. Inspired by the Grand Designs container home and designed and built by Mockba Modular utilising Metsec Framing Systems, it showcases just what you can achieve with amazing design for under £100,000.
The Great Escape Home at Ideal Home Show 2023. Photo: Sam Frost / Media10
The Spring Clean Stage
Love cleaning and organising? Or wish you could learn how to love it? Then the Spring Clean Stage at the Ideal Home Show is for you!
Part of the new Spring Clean and Organise section, the stage hosts cleanfluencers, decluttering experts and planning pros, who share their tips and tricks on everything from feng shui to organising your wardrobe and nailing Marie Kondo’s famous KonMari tidying method.
>>> Find out more about the Spring Clean Stage here
Cleanfluencer Danielle Mason on the Spring Clean Stage at Ideal Home Show 2023. Photo: Sam Frost / Media10
The Cake Competition
This year’s cake competition theme was The King’s Coronation, ahead of His Majesty King Charles’ Coronation in May 2023.
The competition was open to bakers of all abilities to create cakes ‘fit for a king’, while showing off their baking and cake decorating skills for thousands of visitors to see. The cakes were judged by celebrity chef, Juliet Sear, and awards presented on the Eat & Drink Stage at the Show. And the winners were…
- 1st place: A Royal Tea Party by Laura Sloane
- 2nd place: Crowning Glory; One Head Many Hats by Cassie Loynds
- 3rd place: Classically Royal by Laurie White
Laura Sloane won the Ideal Home Show 2023 cake competition with her showstopper, A Royal Tea Party. Photo: Sam Frost / Media10