home: event [ The London Artisan ]

Part of the London Design Festival is The London Artisan at The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane.

‘The London Artisan offer’s a diverse, quality, shopping experience that celebrates independent producers and makers. But more than that, it’s about people and place; meeting the makers, conversation with friends and embedding the social back into shopping’

16 – 17 September [ free entry ]

11am – 6pm

home: found this [ book ]

Interior stylist, Emma Bloomfield, as well as recently launching an online decorating school, has written a book. For styling your home it’s a must-have addition to your bookshelf. Easy step by step guides to ensuring your home flows and comes together, with complimenting styles, colours and accessories.

Home acts as a friendly, room-to-room guide to creating a look you love and a space you are proud to show off – without breaking the bank or starting from the ground up.

With beautiful but hard-working illustrations, Emma demystifies the five elements of decorating – needs and wants, colour and pattern, shape and size, placement, and lighting – and shows how easy it can be to apply them to each room in your house. Whether you’re refreshing your look, moving in, organising your home office, decorating a nursery or creating an outdoor oasis, Emma’s tried-and-tested advice will inspire and guide you.

With original illustrations, clever floorplans, practical decorator’s tips and styling 101s, Home is a timeless handbook for anyone who has ever doubted their decorating ability, or craved a helping hand through the process.

Home:The Elements of Decorating by Emma Blomfield

home: trend [ curated living ]

Gone are the days of hiding everything behind cabinet doors and wardrobes, it time to embrace what you own and show it off.

This Autumn furniture is to be admired not only by how it looks but also whats on it. Open clothes rails instead of wardrobes in the bedroom, doorless cabinets in the kitchen and drinks trolleys in the living room is where its at.

Going for this kind of look will obviously mean some serious de-cluttering and organising. Pick your favourite pieces to display on shelves, your best dinnerware out for all to see in the kitchen and neat hung clothing on rails. Its much more of a curated feel, almost shop like with minimal designed pieces of furniture.

Of course there is still a need to for some closed doors for those items you just cant live without but perhaps are less appealing on the eye. But generally if you can invest in some key storage you will start to embrace it and destress knowing you have a place for everything, and it looks good at the same time.

Guide:

1. Shelving unit ftom westelm.co.uk [ £499 ]

2. Hanging unit from rockettstgeorge.co.uk [ £140 ]

3. Bookcase from habitat.co.uk [ £250 ]

4. Clothes rail from made.com [ £199 ]

5. Open shelving unit from miafleur.com [ £425 ]

6. Open wardrobe from ikea.com [ £150 ]

7. Shelving from futureandfound.com [ £340 ]

8. Trolley from roseandgrey.co.uk [ £155 ]

home: made [ pom poms ]

The pom pom has grown in popularity in recent years and this year it has appeared on everything from shoes & clothing to garlands in the home. Appearing a lot on cuhsions, bedspreads and curtains pom poms bring a lot of fun to a room, also adding texture.

We all remember making pom poms at school, using a donut shaped piece of cardboard and a lot of wool. Although quite time consuming the result was worth it.

These days there are other ways to get the perfect pom pom and we have found some tutorials to show you how, plus different uses for them.

Pom pom basket / abeautifulmess.com

Pom pom garland / taradennis.com

Making quick pom poms / homemade-gifts-made-easy.com

Pom pom doorknob garland / designsponge.com

home: nice price [ tableware ]

H&M is a our brand of choice if you are looking for on-trend homeware with quality and a great price. With their continuously changing collection you are sure to find something you love.

We have been checking out their new arrivals and these ceramics caught our eye. A collection of mugs, plates, storage pots and a chopping board all with an intricate pattern in dark blue and white.

Mix and match the designs or buy one or two to display.

From £3.99

hm.com

home: favourite thing [ two plus too ]

home: favourite thing [ two plus roo ]

Lovely little new store Two Plus Roo offers these macrame hangers and wall hangings from their store, head to their Instagram and click through to www.twoplusroo@bigcartel.com

With prices from £15 and pieces of limited quantities, be quick to grab a gorgeous plant or wall home accessory!

home: featured [ The Tipi ]

Something for the kids today with the gorgeous The Tipi. Founded by Naomi Clarke, this online store is full of unique childrens homeware, gifts and toys. You will be sure to find something special.

As their name suggests The Tipi stocks a lovely range of Tipis in variety of colours. Also browse the other furniture including desk & chairs and the brilliant rabbit ear chairs.

Everything is simply designed with a muted colour pallete, which means it all can slot easily into any kids room.

Head to thetipi.co.uk

Also keep up to date with The Tipi on their instagram page.

home: event [ mid – century collage workshop ]

home: event [ mid century collage workshop ]

Get along to Heals, London for this introductory workshop with illustrator Eloise Renouf. Learn about the principles of colour and composition through collage.

‘Guests will meet the designer and author of the bestselling 20 Ways To Draw A Tree. Eloise will be on hand to guide all guests with hints, tips and her designer’s eye as they create their own mid-century inspired pieces to take home. All materials are provided’
September 17th / 1pm – 3pm

Tickets available from eventbrite.co.uk [ £25 ]

home: found this [ prints ]

We love discovery new art and artists and these fab prints from Urban Outfitters by illustrator Elena Boils are great.

The subject matter and colours really give a retro vibe and perfect for any room in the home.

Available framed or unframed [ from £29 ]

Urbanoutfitters.com

home: trend [ plywood ]

Plywood furniture is nothing new, made popular in the 1950s with design icons like Charles and Ray Eames. The material that was once thought too cheap to be on show is now making its biggest mark on interiors being used on everything from furniture to kitchen cupboards to wall coverings.

The amazing nature of plywood means it can bend and create beautiful shapes, and this is particularly evident in pendant lights. If you are looking for a statement light this coming season, make sure its made of plywood.

Light shade from clasohlson.com [ £29.99 ]

Another great way to make a statement is to use plywood where you may not expect. Make cupboard doors in a kitchen or panel a wall in a living room. Let the finish be raw and obvious, no need to cover up with paint.

If you fancy a more subtle approach to plywood try adding in some dining chairs or perhaps a side table or stool. These pieces of furniture can add interest to a room and blend with other trends, like mid-century, monochrome and Scandinavian. You really need to appreciate the design of the pieces you choose, so a less cluttered room is probably best.

If you are looking for inspiration than we recommend a visit to the V&A Museum and their current exhibition Plywood: Material of the Modern World.

Guide:

1. Image from Pinterest

2. Shelving unit from lozidesigns.com [ from £180 ]

3. Wallpaper from johnlewis.com [ £175 ]

4. Stool from lozidesigns.com [ £120 ]

5. Lamp shade from woolights.com

6. Floating shelf from made.com [ £49 ]

7. Eames chair from rockettstgeorge.co.uk [ £927.60 ]

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