home: found this [ midcentury planter ]
The beautiful design of these midcentury style planters from West Elm is perfect with the walnut tapered legs, retro feel, patterned ceramics in great tones and their quality, solid feel.
A gorgeous addition to any room to bring that feeling of the outdoors in. Amazing in a cluster of a few, where space allows but also a clean statement piece of it stands alone.
Available in two sizes and various colours and patterns.
Planter / West Elm £149
home: trend [ 1980s ]
Let’s step back in time and indulge ourselves in the ’80s, a decade of bold colour and print.
Perspex plays a major role, with neon furniture including chairs and tables. Add to this accessories such as light fittings, trays and wall hooks.
If the clashing colours aren’t for you, opt for something in clear plastic or white and get the colour and bold print from soft furnishings, like cushions and throws. [ The prints can be as crazy as you like, as can the colours. ]
This trend is fun and shouldn’t be taken too seriously, ideal for a second living space or spare bedroom if it’s too much in a main room.
Alternatively get the look with one or two key pieces of furniture or a few accessories, and work with paint to inject a strong colour onto the walls.
Guide:
1. Coat hooks – blockdesign.co.uk [ £14 ]
2. Tea towel set – futureandfound.com [ £15 ]
3. Acrylic chair – habitat.co.uk [ £175 ]
4. Plate – darkroomlondon.com [ £80 ]
5. Wall light – do-shop.com [ £250 ]
6. Chair – Ikea.com [ £40 ]
7. Pattern inspiration
8. Cushion – futureandfound.com [ £79 ]
home: made [ creating with text ]
Discovering TipJunkie was a good moment. A collated selection of DIY projects all designed with the typography fan in mind.
From creating giant initials to hang on the wall to decoupage with book pages to word art, this feature has 16 projects to have a go at.
Our favourite DIY is the printed letters or numbers on a cork board, as featured in last Friday’s trend post. Either freehand or with stencils, with emulsion paint and a brush or sponge, you can get creative with words, letters and numbers on a simple plain cork board (see bottom right in the picture). A good spray varnish finish will help to ensure your work lasts and won’t chip with the daily use.
Home accessories and styling created with typography designs are the perfect way to personalise your home, whether it be the initials of the family hung on the wall, or the pages of your favourite book pasted onto the wall, a quote you love on a giant canvas, or even stencilled letters spelling out ‘welcome’ on a wooden hallway floor as you enter the house.
home: nice price [ Sommar 2016 ]
Ikea have done it again, creating an attractive collection of soft furnishings, tableware and glassware. The Sommar collection is promoted as an outdoor range, ready for garden parties, but there are some great pieces including striped cushions, royal blue tableware, rugs and printed trays which you can use indoors now [ starting from £1.50 ].
Ticking the box for previous trend ‘Fresh Nautical‘ there are elements to take from the collection to fit this look for Spring, and we love it.
Limited stock available online, head to ikea.com to find your nearest store and full collection.
home: favourite thing [ plant stand ]
The growing (no pun intended) trend of the ‘urban jungler’ is quite literally growing. Homeware and interiors brands are offering a wide and trend-aware range of indoor gardening, house-plant accessories. Materials popular at the moment including marble, metallics and woods have found there way into design of pots, planters, ledges and dishes, that can be used for your growing collation of indoor planting.
Danish brand, Ferm Living, the gorgeous Scandivian interiors design store, are leaders in beautiful indoor pots and planters, with a range of products with strong design, great materials and perfect colour palette.
This powder coated iron plant stand is minimal and perfect with its clean lines. It could stand alone or pair up with its smaller counter part.
£32 Ferm Living
home: featured [ istome ]
Istome as an emporium of homewares, stationary, and prints mostly sourced from Scandinavian countries, many of whom still manufacture their own goods in a traditional way.
Full of new and fun products Istome stocks great brands including Menu, Studio Esinam and Design Letters. If you want simple gorgeous design then you must check out the website.
‘The products we source at istome, sometimes quirky, always charming but always 100% Scandinavian.’
Head to istome.co.uk for their online shop and blog.
home: event [ interior design course ]
Learn the inside outs of interior decoration and styling with this 5 day course running at University of the Arts, London –
stimulating introduction to the decoration and styling process, you will develop your skills and references around a domestic project, devised for a fictional client. This course will Introduce you to the history of interior decoration as you become familiar with the vocabulary of design, period, styles, colour, materials and finishes…
5 day course / £699 / available in April, July and August
home: found this [ table lamp ]
Oliver Bonas are very good at stocking functional home items with a modern twist. This table lamp combines a copper stem, marble base and a matt finish grey shade which look great together. With an angled head to adjust the direction of the light this lamp would make a great bedside table reading light, or as an ambient light in a living room.
Also available in mint, from Oliverbonas.com [ £58 ]
home: daily [ competition ]
Don’t miss this chance to win a collection of iconic Anglepoise lighting.
This Design Museum competition, in conjunction with the Sample Sale, is a must-enter.
http://designmuseum.org/win-a-full-roomset-from-anglepoise
Competition closes March 6
home: trend [ Words & Pictures ]
We encouraged, we embraced and we excitedly bought the latest in technology. We made our lives easier with computers and emails, no longer needed seperate devices for photography, work, writing and tv (now all in the palm of our hand). We created minimal homes with hidden features and buttons to evolve and improve our habitat.
Now we remember the joy of hand writing, handling printed matter, the emotion of an actual photograph in the hand, or on the wall, and the memory it evokes. We look to books and script, appreciating the written form and the ink from real letterpress printing.
Bring this emotion and tactile quality back into the home with words and pictures. Use initials, words, quotes and poetry to demonstrate the household characters, lifestyle and personalise your home. In prints on the wall, home accessories, fabric design and even use greys and inky blues synonymous with print and type as the colour palette.
1 Using initials in a wall display / where fonts become art
2 Letter Ornament / George at Asda £10
3 Create a gallery wall of artistic, eclectic, quirky family photography. Print your photos with Photobox
4 Visit a professional photographer* for a family photo shoot. Make your family into a piece of photographic art [ photo credit www.kristendukephotography.com ]
5 DIY typography cork board using paint and stencils
6 Printed typographic fabric / Green Olive
7 Farrow & Ball No 253 Drawing Room Blue / from £39.50
8 Superize a letter for a strong, bold statement look / contact a local carpenter for wood-cutting quotes and then finish and paint yourself
9 Words make pictures in this 2012 film poster for Words starting Bradley Cooper / £8.99 Amazon
*for great modern photography, we love RosewarneCox Photography based in Buckinghamshire, UK
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