Tag: dining

home: trend [ jewel tone glassware ]

home: trend [ jewel tone glassware ]

Key trend of the season, jewel tones are staying around. An easy and beautiful way to introduce these tones of colour to any room, is with glassware.

Glasses, vases, plates, dishes, bowls, jars – when in beautiful jewel tones, are pieces of art – homeware meant to be on show, displayed, and a great way to bring colour to an interior.

It’s a colour palette that seems to be being embraced across the high street and therefore at a range of prices.

Our favourite idea is to create rich, colourful table settings by combining glassware, plates and vases of different tones. Add highlights of copper or gold (cutlery, candelabras or napkin rings) to finish the look perfectly.

Top row

Oliver Bonas £28 / Rinkit £8.99 / Maison Du Monde £16

Middle row

Trouva £65 / LSA at Amazon £32.94 / Wayfair £33.99

Bottom row

Sophie Conran from £65 / Pad Lifestyle £135 / Wayfair £21.99

home: trend [ decorative plates ]

home: trend [ decorative plates ]

For creating a beautiful unique dining table or alternatively to be hung as art on the walls. There’s a huge array of decorative plates to choose from – patterns, styles, colours, designs, and illustrations galore.

This can create such a special look for dining. Layer up plates of design and colour to compliment napkins and clothes to create a table that almost tells a story.

For a wall display, go eclectic with a clash of patterns and designs. Or for a more minimal look mix the odd detailed design or illustration with plain colours and block patterns – this in all monochrome would be a perfect look.

Top row

Next £36 / Anthropologie £8 / Anthropologie £12

Middle row

Rockett St George £39 / John Lewis £6.40 / Nordic Nest £17

Bottom row

Trouva £80 / Oliver Bonas £30 / Hema £2.50

home: found this [ ceramics ]

home: found this [ ceramics ]

We spotted these fun ceramics from zarahome.com and are great to buy individually or as a set.

The grid print earthenware range comes in 4 different sizes of bowl and plate starting from £5.99.

The monochrome design is really cool and would fit in perfectly with a stripped back Scandi style kitchen.

Head to zarahome.com to explore the collection

home: made [ napkin rings ]

home: made [ napkin rings ]

Napkin rings can add that extra special detail to a dining table setting. We love the idea that these can be personalised, colour matched and designed to suit your theme with the wealth of DIY ideas available across the internet.

Head to Brit & Co for a great mix of links to tutorials for modern design DIY napkin rings.

home: featured [ Ikea dining and kitchen ]

home: featured [ Ikea dining and kitchen ]

Very excited and spirits absolutely lifted with the gorgeous colourful new range of retro inspired kitchenalia and diningware from Ikea.

Bring splashes of colour and retro pattern into your home with products including trays, plates, glassware, ice buckets and bowls!

home: made [ napkins ]

home: made [ napkins ]

Head to The Sweetest Occasion blog to discover a wonderful diy for creating your own designs on fabric napkins.

Simply with fabric pens, you can create great modern designs and patterns – allowing your napkins to be suited to the occasion or colour theme.

Colours can allow association with different festivities – and text or wording can make the napkins personalised for a table setting or appropriate for an event.

Try Berol or Sharpie for fabric pens or one of the other many many brands that do versions.

More inspiration for pattern designs from Pinterest

home: favourite thing [ ceramics ]

home: favourite thing [ ceramics ]

London based, Italian ceramicist Virginia Balistreri, creates the most beautiful thrown pottery. Great homeware for every day use, would make perfect gifts or treat yourself.

Choose from a broad range of pots, bowls, hanging planters, plant pots, candle holders, tea pots, cups and more. All the range are in beautiful natural tones of greens, blues and beiges.

With prices from £15, head to her Etsy shop to discover more.

home: found this [ octopus bowl ]

home: found this [ octopus bowl ]

You may not have thought you need an octopus bowl but we think this might change your mind.

This beauty from homeware fave Audenza is an investment at £148 but what a statement it would make – especially if it had a chilled bottle of fizz in it, too.

It’s a clear glass bowl on an aluminium stand designed with an intricate moulding of an octopus. Clever, beautiful and a unique home accessory.