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home: event [ The Handmade Fair ]

home: made [ The Handmade Fair ]

If you love handmade items for the home, love workshops, live conversions on interior ideas and lots of shopping then this is the event for you.

The Handmade Fair comes to Hampton Court this September and is full of inspiring ideas for creating your perfect home.

Head to the website for all the details.

15 – 17 September / Tickets from £15

home: found this [ shelving ] 

home: found this [ shelving ] 

With a sleek, minimal linear look and coloured in the perfect copper tone, the Lulea shelving unit from Maison Du Monde would be a perfect, affordable design piece to make a statement on a wall. 

Style with a few home accessories depending on the room. Would be great in a lounge, kitchen or even a nursery. 

£35.99

home: trend [ finish it in black ]

home: trend [ finish it in black ]

As more and more people are turning to dark interiors for inspiration Black is becoming a popular choice whem accessorising a room. Whether its small accessories like vases and ornaments, tables and chairs or wall coverings and paint, black is the shade of choice.

Mix high gloss with matte finishes to create tone and collect a selection of black items to display in one space.

Layered black [ image from pinterest ]

The kitchen is a great place to introduce black as there are so many surfaces to play with as well as including electricals, tableware and cutlery. Of course mix with white for a more monochrome feel or combine with dark wood, copper or brass additions.

Combining different finishes [ image from pinterest ]

If you are daring enough, and there is no reason why you shouldn’t be go full on black throughout a room. This especially works well in a bedroom, where most of the time you spend in there is in the dark anyway. Going dark creates a cosy space and doesn’t always – as a lot of people expect -make a room feel smaller. 

Guide:

1. Rattan chair from rockettstgeorge.co.uk [ £195 ]

2. Vanity mirror from futureandfound.com [ £39 ]

3. Ceiling light from habitat.co.uk [ £55 ]

4. Lamp shade from made.com [ £29 ]

5. Desk from westelm.co.uk [ £399 ]

6. Smeg fridge freezer from johnlewis.com [ £1999 ]

7. Armchair from ikea.com [ £190 ]

8. Vase from hm.com [ £17.99 ]

home: made [ washi tape wall design ] 

home: made [ washi tape wall design ] 

Bored of clean plain painted walls in your home? Using washi tape (and some inspirational images) is a quick brilliant way to introduce colour, pattern and quirkiness to a room. 

It’s straight forward and non permanent, which makes it an ideal way to decorate – allowing easy changes, mistakes to be rectified or updates whenever you like. 

Searching google, creative blogs and Pinterest gives a plethora of design ideas to get inspiration from.
Design depends on the room. Anything from geometric patterns, stripes, Aztec designs, crosses, linear and also a great way to bring in on-trend colours like blush, metallics or simply in monochrome. 

For kids rooms it’s the perfect way to bring in their favourite images… animals, mountains, trains or simply fun pattern for stimulating a new born baby. 

Great places to buy washi tape;

https://www.thefoxandstar.co.uk/collections/washi-tape 

https://www.papermash.co.uk/collections/washi-tape

home: nice price [ clock ]

home: nice price [ clock ]

This desk top clock from Ikea would make a great addition to any room. It’s stylish brushed gold and black finish give a more expensive feel.

It’s actually only £12 and would sit nicely amongst vases, frames and other ornaments on a shelf or tabletop.

Ikea.com

home: favourite thing [ stoneware range ] 

home: favourite thing [ stoneware range ] 

Dunelm have ticked the midcentury style box with the great new Elements Scraffito range, currently made up of a large bowl and two vases. 

This stoneware range has lovely simple graphic illustrated design on each piece in colours that are on trend and would sit well in a cluster to make a feature on a shelf or table. 

home: featured [ Forest London ]

home: featured [ Forest London ]

Launched by collector Eva Coppens, Forest London is an emporium of Scandinavian and Northern European furniture, lighting and accessories. 

‘Specialising in original and authentic mid-century furniture and lighting, Forest London will also provide a platform for a mutually complementary mix of old and new art forms through a series of exhibitions and collaborations with contemporary artists’

We love the mix of styles and designs Forest London offers. Search out the perfect mid-century rosewood cabinet or sideboard and combine it with a contempory black metal side table.

Visit the store at:

115 Clerkenwell Road

London

EC1R 5BY

[ Mon – Fri 11 – 7 , Sat 12 – 5 ]


Or head to forestlondon.com and fall in love.

home: found this [ light ]

home: found this [ light ]

Habitat has launched it’s new season collection, and with it some new designs imcluding this gorgeous walnut light shade. Its plywood frame has a been stained walnut and slots together, creating a really interesting light when on.

A perfect light for a living room or kitchen. Available now from habitat.co.uk [ £75 ]

home: trend [ dark berry ] 

home: trend [ dark berry ] 

It gets quite dark and opulent-gothic this autumn with bringing dark berry into home interiors. Layering up tones of this shade – think burgundy, port, rose, grape and other deep rich berry-like shades create a warm, inviting interior to see you into colder months. 

Keep the look modern with matt tones and matt fabrics, use along side dark woods and allow textures of wool, leather and velvet to work together. 

Think to use shades all the way from floor to walls to window covering to give strength to the look and pop in other jewel tones if want the odd highlight to break up the colour. 

1 ‘Rectory Red’ Paint / Farrow + Ball 

2 Pouffe / Bohemia £78.40 (seconds) 

3 Sofa / Sofasworld £499.99 

4 Lustre Rug / John Lewis (from) £200 

5 ‘Ilaria’ Light / Made.com £29 

6 Berry tones used within an interior 

7 Velvet Cushion / M&S £25 

8 Throw / House Of Fraser £190 

9 ‘Radicchio’ Paint / Farrow + Ball