Tag: design

home: featured [ Violet and Percy ] 

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: daily [ competition ] 

home: daily [ competition ] 

  
Don’t miss this chance to win a collection of iconic Anglepoise lighting. 

This Design Museum competition, in conjunction with the Sample Sale, is a must-enter. 

http://designmuseum.org/win-a-full-roomset-from-anglepoise 

Competition closes March 6 

home: made [ gold projects ] 

home: made [ gold projects ]  

With gold being one of this season’s on-trend colours, how about four easy, home projects to bring a little of this uplifting colour into your home. 

Dulux have come up with these great, simple DIYs. Produce either a gold enhanced table, tray, plant pot or frame! 

Plus if you’re feeling extra creative the table and tray ideas can be taken even further – design more elaborate patterns (go geometric or stripy) or add in an additional complimentary colour like lemon, copper or grey. 
  

home: nice price [ pineapple ] 

home: nice price [ pineapple candle ] 

Design is loving pineapples right now. They feature in pattern, fabric, accessories, even jewellery. 

We love this H&M gold (on trend!) pineapple that contains a candle. So once you burn the candle, you have a great little storage pot for trinkets. 

Only £9.99 

Have a look round the rest of the H&M Tropical Appeal trend collection to see their other pineapple pieces as well as homewares featuring palm trees, monkeys and bananas! 

For more pineapple appreciation head to interiors and homeware brand SS Thomas who have pineapple candle sticks, fruit bowls, tumblers and glasses!  

  
  

  

home: event [ Pick Me Up ]

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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.

home: featured [ Skandivis ] 

home: featured [ Skandivis ] 

Skandivis is a beautiful curated online store of some of the best Scandinavian homeware and design. 

Featuring designers including Arne Jacobsen, Ole Palsby, Playtype and Ferm Living, their ranges include tableware, wall art and prints, ceramics and great stuff for kids. 

With simple, minimal design, strong typography influences, a great colour palette and good pricing there is timeless pieces for every room. Skandivis  will bring any home great style and clean lines. 

  

home: made [ printing ceramics ] 

home: made [ printing ceramics ] 

Sometimes home accessories just need a personal element. The current trend for getting creative with ceramics is a fun, easy way to create pieces for your own home, for a party or for a gift that stands out for being individual and personal. 

There’s a variety of art mediums to use to get illustrations, text or any design onto ceramics or glassware. Transfer or decal paper can be printed on and used, sharpie markers can be used to draw, write and design straight on plates or cups and ceramic paint is also available. 

Apartment Therapy offer a great tutorial for using printable transfer paper and you can buy printable decal paper from Crafty Computer Paper. If you want inspiration for using sharpies head to A Beautiful Mess. 

Take inspiration from current trends in botanical drawings, typography and geometric designs. For extra depth to the design, layering your designs over already patterned plates can look brilliant too. Search eBay, charity shops and carboot sales for vintage crockery to use or head to IKEA for good quality plain modern ceramics. 

Ceramics can be designed with names or pictures tailored for an event, a seasonal time of year or even with a selection of great motivational quotes or words. 

If creativity doesn’t come naturally printing images onto transfer paper means you don’t actually have to draw or write a design yourself. And if you just can’t face a little DIY have a peak at Etsy and buy straight from the creative folk making it already, like the talented Ivonne Ellen who’s gorgeous pieces including vodka tea cups and animal illustrated plates are just incredible. Prices from £35. 

 

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Daily mini features about all things homeware & interiors are only a click away. 

Follow us here from 25.01.16 and each day have a quick and easy read available about the latest products, trends, projects, prices and more, or you could catch up once a week on seven mini features from the past seven days… 

Since mid 2015 we have been bringing you interesting, informative and inspiring info every day from our Facebook blog. 

From Monday 25 January we will be bringing you those mini features daily directly from here!

Each day is a different topic, to ensure each week you have a mixture of articles about new products from great brands, the latest special offers or great prices, up to date trend information, our favourite pieces from a mix of UK and international designers and brands, ideas for DIY projects, new homeware stores and more! 

MONDAY we bring you FEATURED, introducing an online or high street  homeware brand to you, telling you all about what they do and particular products to look out for!  

 

TUESDAY we bring you FAVOURITE THING, where we’ve trawled through brands, stores and designers to pick our weekly favourite homeware product available right now.

 
WEDNESDAY we bring you NICE PRICE and search far and wide to find a brilliant item at a fab price or the current best sale deals. 

  
THURSDAY we bring you MADE, and link you through to some super tutorials, how-to’s and DIY ideas from great creative folk or our own make-your-own projects that you can try for yourself, including print your own wallpaper, shelving tutorials, alternative uses for items and soft furnishings workshops. 

 
FRIDAY we bring you TRENDS. Every week we feature a current trend and collate lots of ideas of what to use to create this look in your home. 

  

SATURDAY we bring you FOUND THIS and feature an item, range or design that we found and had to shout about.

  
SUNDAY we bring you EVENTS and let you know about some of the great homeware and interior design workshops, exhibitions, classes, lectures and events, in the up coming month, that may be of interest, with links for booking. 


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