home: trend [ vintage lighting ]

The trend for vintage lighting doesn’t mean necessarily trawling vintage markets and auction sites, unless you want to. Modern stores have a huge wealth of vintage style lighting replicating styles from the 1940s to the 1980s at anywhere from bargain prices to high end design. There’s many options to get ‘the look’ for your home.

Vintage style (or actual vintage) lighting gives a unique look to the home and creates a statement.

Industrial, retro, vintage and Art Deco Style pieces can sit great in a modern setting. Look for statement pieces for centre of a room, group together multiple industrial pendants in a kitchen or use great vintage wall lights against a dark wall.

Picture guide;

1. Rope and bulb // £78.59 LightInTheBox

2. Treviso light // £99 Swoon

3. Industrial Pendant Light // £126.72 MadeToLast

4. Vintage industrial style // LightInTheBox £21.43 (reduced from £46.21)

5. Vintage French Atomic // £250 HomePlace

6. Single vintage style bulb // £9.99 NotOnTheHighstreet

Favourite store, HomePlace, has a great selection of real vintage lighting – originals. They take the work out of hunting down unique pieces yourself.

The incredible piece above might be sold but there’s plenty more great lighting to browse at HomePlace

home: made [ cushions ]

Looking for a refresh for your sofa or chair then consider some inspiration from us today.

We have found a handfull of fun and creative diy projects to transform a basic cushion into something a little special. With frills, pom poms and hand stitching, check these out.

Clockwise from top left:

home: nice price [ clock ]

Head to Amara to get this gorgeous Newgate Wideboy Alarm Clock. With it’s midcentury style and retro look we love it in black and wood colouring, but it’s also available cream and black.

£40

home: favourite thing [ mirror ]

We are loving the increased popularity of window style mirrors. We found this black industrial style example from cultfurniture.com, suited to most interiors.

Giving the illusion of space this large mirror not only works practically but also offers a structured design bringing interest to a room.

Although this mirror is for indoors you could put it in the garden and let it weather and age.

Head to cultfurniture.com [ £119 ]

home: featured [ Next ]

It may be a little damp and chilly but it’s definitely a good time to start planning styling the garden for this summer.

Give yourself something to look forward to by creating a new look for the garden with all the excellent pieces new-in at Next. Plan your outdoor living space with furniture, lighting and outdoor dining ware.

Next offer branded and own brand pieces. There’s great design, great silhouettes and great styles for their furniture. It’s easy to collate a outdoor lounge or dining area with complimentary accessories, planting and with all the details down to melamine ware for safe outdoor dining and strands of cool lighting to light your area after dark.

home: event [ bookbinding for beginners ]

We found this lovely bookbinding workshop at the fab Drink Shop Do in London, so whether you want to create a sketch book or note book for yourself or a gift then this is a great place to start.

This beginners workshop will take you through the steps of putting a book together using stitching techniques and and paper folding for the cover.

This 2 1/2 hr workshop also includes bottomless tea and a slice of cake.

Head to drinkshopdo.co.uk to book tickets

Apr 1st & Apr 29th – £30 [ 10:30 – 13:00 ]

home: found this [ bench ]

A beautiful edition for any home, great in a dining room, bedroom or hallway – this tapered leg midcentury style bench has a perfect shape, solid wood legs with a walnut finish and with a textured upholstered seat in either a tweed or weave finish (two colour options)

Tufted Dining Bench from West Elm

Was £299 Now £239

home: trend [ sage ]

Continuing from last year we are seeing more and more shades of green in homeware. Not only paint colours but furniture and accessories.

Sage is the colour for Spring and we are seeing it everywhere. It’s a calming shade and works in any room. Accessorise with soft furnishings and ornaments for a more subtle look or go full on with painted walls or wallpaper.

We love it’s understated tone and it brings freshness and wellbeing to a space. Shop the high street and online for an array of choice.

Guide:

Top row – comfort kit for wire chair – roseandgrey.co.uk [ £39 ], image from Pinterest, planter from johnlewis.com [ £22 ]

Middle row – wool throw – Coxandcox.co.uk [ £65 ], Fenner sofa – habitat.co.uk [ £1300 ], lampshade – made.com [ £29 ]

Bottom row – paint – farrowandball.com [ from £45 ], cushion cover from hm.com [ £12.99 ], image from Pinterest

home: made [ head boards ]

If you’re looking for a new creative project and want something unique for your bedroom then try a unique idea for the head board.

Hunting across the internet we found four great ideas for making your own head board.

We love the idea of using open books together – making the perfect bedtime reading spot. Create a beautiful tactile design with tied ribbons in a soft hue strung across above the bed. An easy but effective idea is to create a padded head board* using just squares of wood, squares of foam, squares of your chosen fabric and a staple gun! And lastly stencilling or printing a design directly in the place of a headboard is effective as well as being easy to change when you think of a different idea or want to change the look if your bedroom.

*for a great tutorial on making a padded head board visit CaliforniaHomeDesign

home: nice price [ cushions ]

We love love hm.com and think that it’s value, quality and design is a winner. Always something new to pick up for a little room refresh, including these lovely organic cushion covers from their Conscious Collection.

The amazing price of just £3.99 each, and having a item that is sustainably produced is a positive for anyone.

Available now from hm.com

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