home: featured [ The Union Project: Design & Home ]

home: featured [ The Union Project: Design & Home ]

If you need your Scandi fix with brands such as Ferm Living, Normann Copenhagen & Nomess then head to The Union Project in Cheltenham.

As a new division of the clothing & accessories brand their Design + Home shop is full of gorgeous design and style.

Pick from furniture, accessories, stationary and kitchenware, with everything working together perfectly amongst a minimal colour pallete.

theunionproject.co.uk

Visit the store at:

6 Queens Circus

Cheltenham

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home: event [ talk at Heals ]

home: event [ talk at Heals ]

If you’ve ever purused the Instagram feed of Mad About The House (aka Kate Watson-Smyth) you’ll know she has incredible style, ability to create wonderful interiors and her home is drool worthy.

So it’s a definite date for the diary, snap up tickets, for her talk at Heals, London, on Thursday May 24th. And for the affordable ticket price of just £20 you even get a copy of her book!

Book now!

They say ;

Join Kate Watson-Smyth, founder of the blog ‘Mad About The House’, for a talk that will change the way you look at your home.

Drawing on a wealth of experience, Kate, interiors expert and founder of the blog ‘Mad About The House’, will share tips and top hacks on doing up and styling every home, whatever your style and budget.

A copy of Kate’s new book ‘Mad About The House: How to decorate your home with style’ (Pavilion Books, RRP £20) is included in the ticket price.

home: found this [ STAMPD x IKEA ]

home: found this [ STAMPD x IKEA ]

IKEA have done it again and created a collection with an unlikely designer, giving us something very unexpected but also very appealing.

The Spanst collection is made up of 32 pieces created with fashion designer Chris Stamp ( creative director of clothing brand Stampd ) and product designer Maja Ganszyniec. The varied range includes an armchair, shelving units, cushions, waterbottle, skateboard, shoe boxes, LED lights and much more.

With a black, grey and white colour pallete this collection is minimal and well thought out, with practical pieces with a very urban, streetwear edge.

We love how IKEA are mixing it up with clothing and homeware and bringing in designers to showcase their ideas. Launching in May this limited edition collection won’t hang around for long.

Ikea.com

home: trend [ peach]

home: trend [ peach ]

2018 sees peach as the new colour to love. Peach is the ‘new’ blush – becoming a colour favoured as a great highlight in dark grey or black, or minimal white interiors.

It’s great as a highlight, but create a beautiful look with blending shades of the hue across a room, keep it minimal with no pattern but let the colour do the talking.

Main picture guide :

Top Row / Highlight one wall in a white interior / ‘Crushed Peach’ Paint £16 B&Q / Lamp £7 Dunelm

Middle Row / ‘Heidi’ Bedding from £25.50 Debenhams / Chair £140 Oliver Bonas / Vase £43 Amara

Lower Row / ‘Oscar’ Sofa £1745 Loaf / Rug £159 I Rugs / Blending shades of peach with cream, beige and natural shades.

Peach inspiration

home: favourite thing [ ply chair ]

home: favourite thing [ ply chair ]

We have a lot of love for chairs and this armchair from West Elm is certainly one to shout about. The design and colour is ticking all the boxes for Midcentury lovers. It has a modern twist with its curved legs rather than a familiar swivel base.

The plywood frame finished in dark walnut and a soft leather seat makes this the perfect lounge chair to get cosy in with a book.

£999 from westelm.co.uk

home: featured [ John Lewis ]

home: featured [ John Lewis ]

Head to John Lewis for a new look for the home. If you love bright colours, we’ve collated our favourite current pieces currently in-store and online.

A colourful look is great with a retro twist. Stick with hues that are similar shades of a few bright colours, with turquoise, burnt orange and red for a midcentury twist. Keep sofas, armchairs or other main furniture pieces in statement plain bright colours and opt for patterns in home accessories. Look for quirky additions like the John Lewis ‘On Air‘ light box and mix fun patterns like geometric and block printing in curtains, throws and cushions.

home: event [ Midcentury East ]

home: event [ Midcentury East ]

Back again for a summer show, this time in Haggerston, London, Modern Shows bring us Midcentury East. A fair full of dealers of gorgeous furniture, lighting and accessories.

Visit our Vintage and modern design shows — Midcentury Modern®, Midcentury East and our Midcentury and Midcentury Modern® pop ups — attracting people from all over the UK looking to buy collectable furniture and design for the home

[ Sunday 20th May ]

modernshows.com

home: trend [ marble coffee tables ]

home: trend [ marble coffee tables ]

Marble is strong trend for so many homewares and furniture, it’s been high on the radar for a while and is set to stay there this year. It’s such a great material, it’s practically become a new neutral. It can sit amongst many strong interior trends and work with many home styles. It goes perfectly with a minimalistic white interior but is equally a great way to break up and brighten an interior using strong jewel tones – layered and dark. Marble can come in black, white or sandy tone and this lends itself to an easy add in to designing a room.

A nice easy way to introduce or use marble when styling a room is with a coffee table. And there is an absolute abundance of high street, designer and online stores offering a huge variety of styles, silhouettes, sizes and prices.

Designs often mix marble tops with metal framework base either quite minimal or with a geometric influence or wooden legs, wooden frames and even matching it with another material like wood or plastic and segmenting the top surface.

1 £199 La Redoute

2 £549 Dwell

3 £199 Dunelm

4 £499 Swoon

5 £798 Anthropologie

6 £259 Atkin + Thyme

7 £325 Loaf

8 £1,298 Anthropologie

9 £359.99 Wayfair

home: featured [ really well made ]

home: featured [ really well made ]

Delve into the website of the wonderful Really Well Made – such a well curated, huge selection of incredible design and homeware.

With brands including Vitra, Tom Pigeon, Jansen + Co, HAY, Design House Stockholm and String amongst other great designers, there’s so much style and elegance to bring to your interior. The store covers departments including furniture, lighting, accessories and soft furnishings.

They say ;

Really Well Made offers the very finest design-led contemporary furniture and accessories with a Scandinavian influence. We established in 2012 because we felt there were many retailers in the UK representing poorly conceived design products. We envisaged a collection of items that simply work well and transcend passing fashions. With that in mind we constantly search for design products which express a strong, timeless & minimalist aesthetic that will stand the test of time.

home: found this [ garden furniture ]

home: found this [ garden furniture ]

This George garden furniture set is the perfect set up to create a lovely outdoor lounge area.

Add in a great natural tone patterned outdoor rug, some great planters and pour a glass of wine.

This lounge set with its retro scandi edge has great design and a cool silhouette.

They say;

Bring Scandi style into your garden with this Nerja sofa set from George Home. Finished in a beautiful hand woven corded rope, this set includes one two-seater sofa, two armchairs and one grey toughened glass-top table, perfect for relaxed, al fresco lounging.

Nerja 4 piece sofa lounge set £399