home: nice price [ pendant light ]

Lighting is an essential part to any room, and nothing is more important than a centre piece like a statement pendant light. We have found this gorgeously simple and elegant design from Marks & Spencer.

The combination of stained solid oak and black metal shade is on trend and works really well in both a bright white room or against darker shades of blue and green.

It’s also at a great price of £43.99 [ £99 ]

Marksandspencer.com

home: favourite thing [ sofa ]

With the trends of deep dark colours and retro modern shaping being popular this DFS Richie sofa ticks many boxes – most of all it’s amazing price! This gorgeous 100% leather sofa is only £399 in their sale.

So update the lounge with this stylish, cool, designer looking sofa at a low, low price.

Style with dark walls, and use creams, jewel tones and metallics in the homeware details and soft furnishings.

home: featured [ The Maker Place ]

This young online store [ launched 2016 ] is all about craftsmen and designers from the UK. All the items found in this ‘marketplace’ are handpicked by a team focusing on style and substance.

‘We’re passionate champions of independent makers, and we strongly believe that it’s possible to by beautifully crafted work that is both eco – conscious and style conscious. We select work based on both craftsmanship and design so that you can achieve a modern, thoughtful and stylish look using exceptionally made, luxurious, handcrafted items’

The website is fully gorgeous homeware including accessories, furniture, lighting, prints and gifts with each item having a story behind it, introducing the product and it’s designer. We love the soft furnishings and furniture.

The Maker Place also has a great blog [ The Maker Press ] sharing new products, inspiration and introducing new designers.

This kind of online store is very much needed, supporting independant designers and makers, and in return you gain an individual handcrafted treasure for you home.

themakerplace.co.uk

home: event [ wood workshop]

home: event [ wood workshop ]

Signed Designs is the welcoming, small North London based woodwork workshop offering great classes to learn a variety of woodworking skills and produce a choice of a few different final projects including spice rack and planter.

These friendly carpentry classes are weekend based. The fun but focused classes range from 4 to 18 hour courses and are limited to three students per class to ensure dedicated tutoring.

Prices start from £68 to £240

home: found this [ mouse lamp ]

Last year there was a huge popularity in animal figure lights, from monkeys to dogs, flamingoes to rhinos. The simplicity of these lights have been a big hit and this season it’s all about the mouse. These lamps from Graham & Green are very cute, with three different designs to choose from [ sitting, standing and lying ]. The white resin mould holds an LED bulb giving the perfect light for a bedside table or for creating atmosphere in a corner of a room.

£60 from grahamandgreen.co.uk

home: trend [ woven baskets ]

Whether Moroccan, Scandinavian, minimal, country cottage, midcentury, industrial, boho or luxe style is your thing, there will be woven baskets to suit.

Across high street and online stores, from high end brands, woven baskets are filtering down the chain so all homeware brands will have in their ranges this year.

Easy, adaptable and practical for storage, however big or small there’s a use for woven baskets all over the home – for magazines in the lounge, to store blankets, great for indoor planters, housing nick nacks or bath toys in the bathroom, keeping all your wrapping paper handily stored, for fruit, for eggs, for bread, for outdoorwear kept handily at the front door, as a laundry bin, as display, to keep knitting stored… the uses are endless.

For great styling, mix and match heights in clusters and tie in colours to your decor or wood tones.

Our favourite bargain outlets for getting great baskets are IKEA , Homebase , Habitat or local garden centres. For on trend Moroccan style baskets head to Bohemian Design or Riadstore

1 Oval / Homebase £9.99 (currently on sale in store at a lower price)

2 Helene Set of 2 / Southwood Stores £19

3 Idaho / Habitat £30

4 Monochrome Set of 2 / Sainsbury’s £10

5 Murmur Set of 2 / Houseology £37

home: made [ floating shelves ]

Shelving can bring so much to a room, giving extra dimension and interest to a plain wall. With so many options it’s sometimes hard to pick something that will work. A style we love is the floating box shelf, created simply from four pieces of wood. This style can be adapted in many shapes including hexagon or house designs. You can adapt the shelving to your needs whether it’s shallow shelves for ornaments or deeper ones for books and plants.

We have found some great tutorials to get you inspired.

home: nice price [ concrete clock ]

We love January for it’s sales and discounts.

Head to Luke Arthur Wells now and take advantage of 20% discount with code NEWYEAR20 at the checkout.

Our favourite pick – the gorgeous minimalist House Doctor concrete clock (£44) which after discount will be a lovely £35.20 !

home: favourite thing [ Desenio ]

A firm favourite of ours is Desenio, not only for its extremely well priced prints and frames but for its ever growing collection and new arrivals. To start the year off why not look at updating some prints in your home, our new favourites include stunning botanical prints, 2017 calenders, and cool art deco designs, all in dark blues.

[ from £9.99 ] desenio.co.uk

home: featured [ ferm living ]

Beautiful Copenhagen based brand, Ferm Living, have spent a decade producing and designing incredible homewares and furniture. Their clean, minimal, elegant design silhouette so identifiable to their name is highly admired and ergo regularly seen to be tried to be imitated and copied by other brands. The level of quality and materials is never achieved though. The lines are never as clean, and the colour tones never as pure.

Signature pieces that have influenced other people to design similar

Ferm Living is unique. This design comes with a price tag but these are pieces to invest in and collated well in home will result in beautiful interiors.

The design, colours and styles are well thought out and considered, with an obvious nod towards their Scandinavian heritage, a touch retro but most of all – every piece is like art, with great craftsmanship and attention to detail.

Excitedly we wait to see what 2017 brings for this brand.

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