home: nice price [ Tiger ]

Major player in the affordable design-led retail homeware market, Tiger produces trend aware home accessories season after season, coupled with innovative design and at remarkably low prices [ go in for one thing, come out with ten ! ]

Their new season range doesn’t fail to disappoint with a colour palette of pastels mints and corals, copper, monochrome and lovely geomatic and ethic inspired patterns.

There’s coral and mint tray sets for £5, colourful rugs for £4 and pink or silver bookends for £3, plus much much more.

Visit your local store [ find a store ] and hunt out these homeware gems.

home: favourite thing [ Flock ]

If you love colour and pattern in your soft furnishings then you must check out Flock. It’s collection consists of fine quality linens and velvets, digitally printed in Lancashire or screen printed by hand in London.
Flock works with graduate designers to create beautiful textiles for the home. [ Each designer keeps their name to their work and receives a royalty for every metre sold ]
Choose a fabric by the half metre, or pick from a selection of ready made cushions.
This combination of fresh new talent and industry experience is a definate winner, and the designs are just stunning.

home: featured [ Violet and Percy ]

Since 2013, lovely Flora has been curating gorgeous unique designers and brands in her online store, Violet and Percy.

‘Violet and Percy is a UK lifestyle and interiors shop selling homewares, gifts and stationery influenced by some of my favourite things: British humour, Scandinavian cool and a pop of Mediterranean sunshine.’

The products, including prints, ceramics, lighting and garlands, are hand selected and embrace new, talented designers. All products sit will together and would combine to bring great style to any home. Flora is keen to only stock products that she loves and would have herself, and the result is a great, well thought selection of goods – well priced, well designed and on trend.

Stocked designers include Playtype, Block Design, Talking Tables and Cooee Design

Great products in the online store sell out fast so to be up to date with the latest in (online) store, follow Violet and Percy on Instagram or Twitter .

home: event [ Makers Exchange ]

This great market is back at Chrisp Street throughout March. Selling anything from food produce to fashion, arts and crafts to upcycled furniture, with everything in the market made by locals with love.
Open the next two Saturdays [ 10am – 4pm ]

Closest DLR stations All Saints and Langdon Park

home: found this [ planter ]

home: found this [ midcentury planter ]

The beautiful design of these midcentury style planters from West Elm is perfect with the walnut tapered legs, retro feel, patterned ceramics in great tones and their quality, solid feel.

A gorgeous addition to any room to bring that feeling of the outdoors in. Amazing in a cluster of a few, where space allows but also a clean statement piece of it stands alone.

Available in two sizes and various colours and patterns.

Planter / West Elm £149

home: trend [ 1980s ]

Let’s step back in time and indulge ourselves in the ’80s, a decade of bold colour and print.

Perspex plays a major role, with neon furniture including chairs and tables. Add to this accessories such as light fittings, trays and wall hooks.
If the clashing colours aren’t for you, opt for something in clear plastic or white and get the colour and bold print from soft furnishings, like cushions and throws. [ The prints can be as crazy as you like, as can the colours. ]
This trend is fun and shouldn’t be taken too seriously, ideal for a second living space or spare bedroom if it’s too much in a main room.
Alternatively get the look with one or two key pieces of furniture or a few accessories, and work with paint to inject a strong colour onto the walls.

Guide:
1. Coat hooks – blockdesign.co.uk [ £14 ]
2. Tea towel set – futureandfound.com [ £15 ]
3. Acrylic chair – habitat.co.uk [ £175 ]
4. Plate – darkroomlondon.com [ £80 ]
5. Wall light – do-shop.com [ £250 ]
6. Chair – Ikea.com [ £40 ]
7. Pattern inspiration
8. Cushion – futureandfound.com [ £79 ]

home: made [ creating with text ]

Discovering TipJunkie was a good moment. A collated selection of DIY projects all designed with the typography fan in mind.

From creating giant initials to hang on the wall to decoupage with book pages to word art, this feature has 16 projects to have a go at.

Our favourite DIY is the printed letters or numbers on a cork board, as featured in last Friday’s trend post. Either freehand or with stencils, with emulsion paint and a brush or sponge, you can get creative with words, letters and numbers on a simple plain cork board (see bottom right in the picture). A good spray varnish finish will help to ensure your work lasts and won’t chip with the daily use.

Home accessories and styling created with typography designs are the perfect way to personalise your home, whether it be the initials of the family hung on the wall, or the pages of your favourite book pasted onto the wall, a quote you love on a giant canvas, or even stencilled letters spelling out ‘welcome’ on a wooden hallway floor as you enter the house.

home: nice price [ Sommar 2016 ]

Ikea have done it again, creating an attractive collection of soft furnishings, tableware and glassware. The Sommar collection is promoted as an outdoor range, ready for garden parties, but there are some great pieces including striped cushions, royal blue tableware, rugs and printed trays which you can use indoors now [ starting from £1.50 ].

Ticking the box for previous trend ‘Fresh Nautical‘ there are elements to take from the collection to fit this look for Spring, and we love it.

Limited stock available online, head to ikea.com to find your nearest store and full collection.

home: favourite thing [ plant stand ]

The growing (no pun intended) trend of the ‘urban jungler’ is quite literally growing. Homeware and interiors brands are offering a wide and trend-aware range of indoor gardening, house-plant accessories. Materials popular at the moment including marble, metallics and woods have found there way into design of pots, planters, ledges and dishes, that can be used for your growing collation of indoor planting.

Danish brand, Ferm Living, the gorgeous Scandivian interiors design store, are leaders in beautiful indoor pots and planters, with a range of products with strong design, great materials and perfect colour palette.

This powder coated iron plant stand is minimal and perfect with its clean lines. It could stand alone or pair up with its smaller counter part.
£32 Ferm Living

home: featured [ istome ]

Istome as an emporium of homewares, stationary, and prints mostly sourced from Scandinavian countries, many of whom still manufacture their own goods in a traditional way.
Full of new and fun products Istome stocks great brands including Menu, Studio Esinam and Design Letters. If you want simple gorgeous design then you must check out the website.

‘The products we source at istome, sometimes quirky, always charming but always 100% Scandinavian.’

Head to istome.co.uk for their online shop and blog.

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