Month: March 2016

home: featured [ Found ]

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home: featured [ Found ]

After a recent visit to Bath we came across Found – a great looking contemporary shop full of an eclectic mix of stationary, homeware, clothing and more.
Owned by Olivia Brewer and Nik Blake, it’s described as a ‘mini department store’ which we would agree with. You enter into gifts and stationary, through to tableware and homeware and at the back is clothing and accessories.
The hand selected pieces all work cohesively together creating a very pleasurable shopping experience. It’s hard not to pick up and feel everything as you go round.
Found also has an online shop worth checking out if your not in Bath. But if you are planning a visit then you must pop into this one of a kind store.

Found
17 Argyle Street
Bath
BA2 4BQ

[ Mon – Sat 10am – 5:30pm ]

home: event [ pop up shop ]

home: event [ pop up shop ] 

West Elm continue to support and give opportunities for new designers, and up and coming brands to get a platform to raise their profile. Here again they have cool, unique brand Refunk’d popping up shop in April at their Tottenham Court Road, London store. 

Running from 15-17th of April, head to West Elm and shop the one-off pieces of furniture and homeware. 

Opening hours 10am – 5pm / 209 Tottenham Court Road W1T 7PN 

” Set up in 2010 Refunk’d by Ursh Stevens in order to create one off pieces of awesomeness from preloved furniture & scrap yard finds.

From glamorous air hostess came the skip rat, salvage specialist, award winning furniture designer Ursh Stevens the owner of Refunk’d. Using scrap yard finds Ursh creates one of pieces that are far removed from the identikit furniture found on the high street. ” 

  

home: trend [ off the grid ] 

home: trend [ off the grid ] 

Dulux have sought out another exciting trend. Your interiors can become clean and bright with the lines and colours of the Off-The-Grid trend. 

It brings together the control of chaos  with the framework of lines, wire grid work and monochrome clarity, with a playful ‘off the grid’ freedom using splashes of colour with a fun bright tonal palette. Essentially this trend brings together the on-trend colours of coral, teal, copper and yellow with the crisp linear simplicity of the monochrome trend. 

Search for grid pattern wall papers ( try Ferm Living ), big geometric patterns on soft furnishings from brands including Next, Zazzle and John Lewis, and colourful bold items of furniture that will sit against a monochrome backdrop. Head to Made for a huge selection of bright stand alone pieces of furniture at great prices. 

‘We need boundaries in which to live, even if we seek to rebel against them, freedom is only understandable within the context of a framework’ Dulux 

1 Lewis shelf £600 Urban Outfitters 

2 Diamond table £150 Urban Outfitters 

3 Geometric cushion £7 George at Asda 

4 Sofia armchair £350 Urban Outfitters 

5 Nadadora Diver print £40 Southwood Stores 

6 White diamond cage light £79 The Electrical Shop 

7 Christian Lacroix wallpaper £65 John Lewis 
 

home: made [ peg boards ]

You have probably noticed in recent years, peg boards have been seen more in the home than the tool shed. And this is due to their versatility and quirky style. The simple design and functionality of equally spaced holes in a large panel of wood with accompanying pegs is genius.
Most commonly they are used as notice boards for hanging items and photos, and of course still used for tools and utensils in workshops. But have you thought about what else can be created with peg boards?!

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We have found some great uses including multi functional picture and shelving walls, doors for cabinets and even kitchen splashbacks.
Check out apartmenttherapy.com for a cabinet revamp, craftandcreativity.com show us how to paint a cool cross-stitch image and decor8blog.com has some brilliant ideas to get you thinking.

If your inspired then head to amazon or ebay to pick up a basic peg board. London Graphic Centre also do some fun coloured boards, great to get started with. [ Look around to find a good price as some can be quite expensive ]

home: nice price [ Tiger ] 

home: nice price [ Tiger ] 

Major player in the affordable design-led retail homeware market, Tiger produces trend aware home accessories season after season, coupled with innovative design and at remarkably low prices [ go in for one thing, come out with ten ! ] 

Their new season range doesn’t fail to disappoint with a colour palette of pastels mints and corals, copper, monochrome and lovely geomatic and ethic inspired patterns.

There’s coral and mint tray sets for £5, colourful rugs for £4 and pink or silver bookends for £3, plus much much more. 

Visit your local store [ find a store ] and hunt out these homeware gems. 

  

home: favourite thing [ Flock ]

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home: favourite thing [ Flock ]

If you love colour and pattern in your soft furnishings then you must check out Flock. It’s collection consists of fine quality linens and velvets, digitally printed in Lancashire or screen printed by hand in London.
Flock works with graduate designers to create beautiful textiles for the home. [ Each designer keeps their name to their work and receives a royalty for every metre sold ]
Choose a fabric by the half metre, or pick from a selection of ready made cushions.
This combination of fresh new talent and industry experience is a definate winner, and the designs are just stunning.

home: featured [ Violet and Percy ] 

home: featured [ Violet and Percy ] 

Since 2013, lovely Flora has been curating gorgeous unique designers and brands in her online store, Violet and Percy. 

‘Violet and Percy is a UK lifestyle and interiors shop selling homewares, gifts and stationery influenced by some of my favourite things: British humour, Scandinavian cool and a pop of Mediterranean sunshine.’ 

The products, including prints, ceramics, lighting and garlands, are hand selected and embrace new, talented designers. All products sit will together and would combine to bring great style to any home. Flora is keen to only stock products that she loves and would have herself, and the result is a great, well thought selection of goods – well priced, well designed and on trend. 

Stocked designers include Playtype, Block Design, Talking Tables and Cooee Design 

Great products in the online store sell out fast so to be up to date with the latest in (online) store, follow Violet and Percy on Instagram or Twitter .

  

home: event [ Makers Exchange ]

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home: event [ Makers Exchange ]

This great market is back at Chrisp Street throughout March. Selling anything from food produce to fashion, arts and crafts to upcycled furniture, with everything in the market made by locals with love.
Open the next two Saturdays [ 10am – 4pm ]

Closest DLR stations All Saints and Langdon Park