home: trend [ Spring Living ]

It’s that time of year when the outdoors starts to come into full colour, and our homes should be no exception.
Spring Living brings a fresh and uplifting feel to a home, with the emphasis on colour – bright colour!
Vivid tones of blue, yellow, red and green clash with each other, paired with digital floral patterns.

Give your room a vibrant look with a statement sofa in lemon yellow, lay a multi-coloured printed rug or arrange a selection of glass bottles and vases in varying colours to hint at this trend. Go crazy or keep it subtle, it’s up to you.
Furniture should be sleek and simple, either in one bright colour or in light tones of wood like bamboo or white melamine, adding pops of colour through accessories.

Guide:
1. Side table – habitat.co.uk [ £95 ]
2. Cone lamp – cultfurniture.com [ £45 ]
3. Orla Kiely cushion – johnlewis.com [ £35 ]
4. Rug – Ikea.com [ £35 ]
5. Sofa – made.com [ £899 ]
6. Cushion – habitat.co.uk [ £12 ]
7. Glass vase – hm.com [ £14.99 ]
8. Cushion cover – hm.com [ £12.99 ]

home: made [ stencilled floors ]

To create a unique and affordable stylish floor, try floor stencils or decals. When you’ve fallen for some beautiful, but expensive, moroccon tiles or maybe want to recreate a Victorian floor or simply love the look of patterned floors, stencilling or decals are a great way to reproduce the look yourself at a fraction of the price.

If you’re lucky you already have decent floor boards to use as a base, these would need to be thoroughly cleaned and lightly sanded to ensure the paint takes to the surface. If the floorboards aren’t in decent shape then you could look to lay a plywood covering to provide a smooth layer to paint onto. You will need a good water based paint or floor paint and a good floor varnish to finish and seal.

If going for a decal, again, the floors would need to be prepped – clean and smooth, and a good varnish will ensure its long lasting.

Cutting Edge give a useful how-to guide, as do Royal Design Studio Stencils – and head to Apartment Therapy for ten gorgeous stencil design ideas for inspiration.

Be inspired by current trends of geometric, lace and monochrome for an up to date look or even look into designing your own decals or stencils that you could lay to create your perfect floor from Pixart Printing or have a look at the range of tile style decal stickers from Zazzle.

home: daily [ lighting discount ]

Take advantage of 15% off vintage midcentury lighting until 29/2/16 at the super Chase & Sorensen.

Use discount code ‘feb16lightsale’ on any purchase from their collection of ceiling lights, table lamps, bulbs or floor lights.

home: nice price [ desk chair ]

This attractive desk chair has bags of style as well as functionality. Well made and comfortable, this chair is given a warm, walnut veneer finish that complements the black leather effect seat and back rest.
Available from wayfair.co.uk with £64 off the price. [ now £100.99 ]

home: favourite thing [ vase ]

When cork, copper and ceramic are used to describe one single item it’s definitely a winning combination.

We love this half and half cork and copper coloured ceramic vase from Quince Living. It would work well grouped with other pieces from the range and looks striking against a dark background like Farrow and Ball’s ‘Pitch Blue‘ or Dulux’s ‘Teal Tension‘.

Copper & Cork Ceramic Vase £62

home: featured [ The Den & Now ]

Founded in Chester by Charlie Beebee, The Den & Now offers an eclectic mix of furniture and accessories for the home, everything from one-off vintage finds and reclaimed items, to more contemporary pieces.
There is a great selection as you work your way through the online shop. Our favourites include the varied storage and the fab lighting.
A nice touch to the website is not only being able to navigate through via product, but also by style, amongst others Industrial Living, Retro Revival and Scandinavian. This helps you get inspiration and see which pieces work well together.

‘we provide a carefully edited collection of stylish handpicked homeware, that’s a little out of the ordinary, delivered with care direct to your door.’

Visit thedenandnow.co.uk to start shopping, and also there’s a blog to keep up to date their latest news.

home: events [ sale ]

home: events [ Anthropologie sale ]

Without leaving the comfort of you own home you can visit the super Anthropolgie sale, that already had some great bargains, but now has an extra 30% off on the homeware sale event.

Homeware delights from coffee tables to rugs, napkins to mugs, cushions to an oh so gorgeous rocking chair to choose from.

Treat yourself

home: trends [ louche seventies ]

The louche 1970s trend pushs the boundaries of taste, with style and design ideas that are lavish, ostentatious and brave.

The hedonistic vibe oozes from the styling choices including crushed velvet, gold, rich colour tones and bold patterns.

It is over the top and glamorous. Metals and glass are favoured for furniture with velvets, silks and heavy weight tapestry in upholstery. Be generous with accessories, multiple vases, candle sticks, cushions, throws and show-piece lighting to make a statement.

1 Muuto Connect Sofa £2790.00

2 Michagan Swivel Armchair £379.99

3 Colour palette

4 Silver Leaf Vases £29.95

5 Atoma Side Table £74.00

6 Ruskin Peacock Cushion £37.50

7 Smoke Nadine Cluster Light £195.00

home: made [ marquee light ]

Lights for our home come in all shapes and sizes. One particular trend that has taken off over the last couple of years is marquee style letter lights – solid letters filled with individual bulbs.
With versions popping up all over the internet and in homeware shops there are a lot to choose from, sometimes being quite pricey. Today we show you how to make your own personaliased marquee lights at a fraction of the cost.

For the best effect and to create a sturdy light you will need to cut your letters or symbols out of wood [ jigsaw needed ]. Alternatively you can get hold of pre-cut versions online from sites including Amazon and Hobby Craft [ from £2 ].

We found two great tutorials at popsugar.com and Robesondesign.com

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