home: recommends [ A Room In My House ]

With a great combination of vintage, hand made and in house designed products, A Room In My House is a great store for gifts, homeware and prints.

The brand has both an lovely online independent shop as well as a well-curated store on the popular marketplace, Etsy.

The brand divides their ranges between the two selling areas with the vintage homeware being in the Etsy store together with handmade products and prints; and then solely their in-house designed goods, in their own webshop.

Their vintage collection, on Etsy, includes glassware and ceramics from the 1950s-1970s and this is complimented by gorgeous handmade cushions in either vintage fabrics or crochet.

Explore the main store for both photographic and typography inspired prints by the duo who run the brand, as well as stationery and cards. There’s even extra goodies including paperback letter racks – clever holders for photos, cards or letters made by hand from books, which make great gifts.

Follow the brand on social media for news of new products and where to shop with them in person as well as news of extra products to buy that aren’t always available online.

http://www.instagram.com/aroominmyhouse 

Twitter : @aroominmyhouse

https://m.facebook.com/A-Room-in-my-House-Ltd-138562196193009/
[ A Room In My House is one of the brands in our first birthday giveaway on Instagram / see earlier post or Instagram for full details on how to enter ]

home: event [ poster exhibition ]

For its fourth year running Print Club London invites talented artists and illustrators to create alternative, screen-printed posters for the films shown at Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House.
Each exhibiting artist is asked to reimagine a poster for one of the films, taking particular scenes, quotes, characters or other elements as inspiration.
Called Summer Screen Prints it runs from 28th July – 17th Aug 2016 and will be open every day and each evening. Summer Screen Prints will host a varied programme of events, demonstrations and workshops to accompany the exhibition in a new, larger space in the East Wing.

Open daily 10.00 – 18.00 and additionally from 18.30 – 21.00 for Film4 Summer Screen ticket holders
Addmision is free.

somersethouse.org.uk
printclublondon.com

home: event [ ArtSnug at West Elm ]

West Elm are champinioning a great little business again, with another 3 day pop up shop – this time featuring print store ArtSnug

‘With spring just around the corner, it is time to start thinking about refreshing the look of your home. And what better way to do it than with art? Find the perfect artwork for your home at ArtSnug’s pop-up art shop at West Elm from Friday 29th April – Sunday 1st May. With 150 individual art pieces by 30 artists and prices starting at only £25 there is something for every budget and every taste!’

West Elm / 29.05.16 – 01.05.16

Tottenham Court Road, London W1

home: made [ wallpaper art ]

Picture walls are really popular at the moment – collecting various photos, artwork and images together, bringing focus to a wall. A really cheap and easy idea to bring pattern and colour onto a wall is to frame wallpaper.
Either use old wallpaper left overs, possibly from friends / family, or order samples direct from the retailer [ these are usually free or at a small cost ].
Maybe there is a strong wallpaper you have used in one room and you want to use what’s left in a different way in another room.

For some great wallpaper choices check out John Lewis and Graham & Brown.

home: featured [ Go Aesthetic ]

New favourite brand to the home interiors market is the cool Scandi-monochrome-minimally styled Go Aesthetic with their small well curated range of tableware, soft furnishings and home accessories.

‘…UK based online store focusing on great contemporary design and style. We stock a whole selection of independent designers, including Fine Little Day, Ester & Erik, Buddy & Bear, Coco Lapine, and many more.’

Monochrome fans will be well provided for with the variety of black and white patterned and grey tone items. Every trend box is ticked with designs in marble, patterns of geometric, repeat print and the hand-painted look, plus gorgeous prints of the natural world and storage solutions for kids and adults.

Definitely a new brand to keep an eye on and they already have a great little sale section to grab some of their great homewares at reduced prices!

home: found this [ colour-in poster ]

Create artwork for the wall that is fun, unique, involves the kids and can give you a little visual education on our wonderful capital city, London.

Urban Outfitters have this great over sized map of London colouring-in page in their homeware sale, reduced to £10 from £20.

home: favourite thing [ printable art ]

The power and impact of large scale art in a room is great. Make a statement or bring a strong colour or theme to a room with a huge print. It’s generally a fairly expensive thing to aquire but US online store, Sycamore Street Press, amongst the range of other fab paper goods and homeware, have the super idea of offering downloadable digital PDFs of brilliant photographic prints that can be printed yourself at your local printers to whatever size (up to 48” x 36” – which is huge)

We absolutely love this way of bringing the outdoors in, with their print range of cactus photographs. Fresh natural images taken from the cactus garden in Huntingdon, Pasedena (California) which create a airy feel and evoke the feeling of the outdoors – allowing the natural world inside and are almost window-like when hung. Either frame, stick or use hanging bars for these huge pieces of art.

Brilliant art at only $9 per download from the Sycamore Street Press.

home: nice price [ print ]

There’s always room for more beautiful art on a wall. John Lewis has a talent to hunt out some incredible artists and graphic designers and have a huge, varied range of styles of work.

We picked this gorgeous Tiffany Lynch print, that is only £5, as our favourite. The colour, the detail and the stylized effects come together to ensure this is a stunning vibrant piece, inspired by nature and perfect to bring a bold, Spring feel to a room.

‘Tiffany Lynch is inspired by the magic of nature, it’s wildlife and changing seasons, her paintings on canvas always find their origins in her pen and ink sketchbook drawings.‘

Birdy Unframed Print / 30cm x 40cm print / £5

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: event [ Pick Me Up ]

Pick Me Up Graphic Arts Festival returns for it’s seventh year at Somerset House featuring up and coming illustrators, designers as well as more established names in graphic art.
Showcasing a range of disciplines including illustration, animation and 3D instalations the festival is part of Utopia 2016, focusing on the themes of community within graphic design. It’s well worth a visit.

[ 21st April – 2nd May ] Head to Somerset House website for tickets and opening times.

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