Month: December 2016

home: nice price [ display dome ]

home: nice price [ display dome ]

Keep your favourite ornaments protected with this classic shaped display dome. Popularity has grown again for these, displaying everything from animal ornaments to dried flowers.

This example from ikea.com comes in two sizes [ 20cm & 27cm in height ] and are are only £5.50 and £10. Made of glass with a solid Arcadia wood base.

Ikea.com

home: favourite thing [ bulletin rack ] 

home: favourite thing [ bulletin rack ]

Simple, minimal and beautifully crafted,  the Dot Aarhus Paper Rack is a contemporary styled oak wood notice board, which both practical but also a stylish way to keep notes, letters and memos together for easy day to day needs. 

This modern update on the traditional notice board is great for the home or the office, could work singularly or in multiples and it’s simple design would sit easily in a minimal interior. 

It comes with the metal binder clips 

£33 Skandivis 

home: gift ideas [ Hygge ]

home: gift ideas [ Hygge ]

There is nothing better than cosying up in front of the television with a hot drink, dimmed lights and a scented candle burning, watching your favourite boxset.

The Danish ritual of enjoying simple pleasures Hygge has taken over this year and we have all embraced it, especially at this time of the year.

Rose and Grey have also been championing this trend and created the perfect selection of Hygge gifts on their site. Head to roseandgrey.co.uk to be inspired and get hold of some last minute presents.

Clockwise from top left:

The Kinfolk Table Book [ £25 ]

Concrete pot candle [ £12 ]

Mug [ £8.50 ]

Macrame wall hanging [ £12.50 ]

Stoneware [ from £6.50 ]

Hopscotch candle tin [ £12 ]

home: featured [ Utility ]

home: featured [ Utility ]

This week’s featured store is Utility; an online shop full of gifts, home accessories, lighting and furniture. Featuring great brands including Hay, Design Letters, Lightyears, Menu, Umbra and Vitra, Utility is the perfect shop for design lovers, especially Scandinavian design.

This Liverpool based company has a huge collection of products, whether you are looking for gifts, or furnishing your home, you will not be disappointed.

Keep up to date with Utility on their blog and Instagram.

utilitydesign.co.uk

home: event [ Kodakery : photography knowledge and equipment ] 

home: event [ Kodakery : photography knowledge and equipment ] 

Time out says,

Trigger-fingers at the ready, photography buffs: try out a new smartphone from Kodak, then see a photo exhibition, quiz the experts on how to improve your Insta game, buy film stock from the heritage camera company and items from a collab with Opening Ceremony in this week-long pop-up. 


To create some personal creative presents, produce photography for your walls or get your hands on knowledge about some new technology head to the one week long pop-up at Berwick Street, Soho, at ‘The Kodakery’, starting today! 

It’s free entry and the closest tube is Oxford Circus 

home: found this [ cushions ]

home: found this [ cushions ]

Get cosy this Winter with textured cushions and throws. These gorgeous examples from Anthropologie have a Maroccon edge using layers of material, sequins, fringing and pom poms.

These eye catching cushions will make a perfect adiction to any sofa. [ £78 – £118 ]

Anthropologie.com

home: trend [ olive green ] 

home: trend [ olive green ] 

Green is a colour associated with nature, harmony, safety and has a restorative effect. Olive green specifically is traditional colour of peace which is strong evidence that it’s a wonderful colour to use in the home. It’s a great colour to use on a big scale whether it’s wall paint, tiling or a large rug but what is particularly effective is layering up shades of a green and building a strong on trend look with the throws, sofas, cushions, paint on walls – all being in that olive tone. There are various shades of olive so the look can have a tonal variance. 

Create texture by using knits, weaves and patterns in soft furnishings all in green and use pewter, warm or dark wood and black in other furniture with metallic highlights in small homewares. 

1 Tiling from Bellissimo from £26 

2 Hygena Lexi Sofa from Argos £349.99 

3 Paint from Wilkos £10 

4 Rug from a selection of green rugs from Benuta 

home: made [ radiator refresh ]

home: made [ radiator refresh ]

A great way to freshen up a room and at the same time make a statement is to update an item which would perhaps usually be hidden. The majority of radiators in peoples homes are painted white or perhaps painted to blend in with the wall colour, but this shouldn’t be the case.

Explore some options, whether it’s covering it or painting, turn it into something you want to look at rather than something you don’t.

For painting ideas:

Brightbazaarblog.com

Dontcrampmystyle.co.uk

For covering ideas:

Decoist.com