home: favourite thing [ chair ]

Looking to get the house summer ready inside and out? This gorgeous IKEA rattan chair is from their new VIKTIGT collection, which includes ceramics, tableware, lampshades and rugs.

The chair is elegant and simple. It would bring a fresh light look to an interior, with a few throw pillows or perfect for lounging in the garden, conservatory or balcony. Rattan furniture doesn’t have to be old fashioned this chair has a great angular design, slim profile frame and ticks the monochrome box too.

IKEA VIKTIGT Armchair £95

( not available online / in store only )

home: made [ lanterns ]

It’s not just the larger items of furniture for the garden to think about as the warmer weather arrives but the little accessories too.

For lighting in the garden it’s good to think about solar or battery powered options to avoid the need to get electricity outside although whilst renovating a house it’s always good to plan ahead and get outdoor sockets fitted.

For use with battery powered lights or candles we love these pretty home made tin can lantern lights. Fairly simple to make with tools including a hammer and nails or bradle or similar.

We found this simple tuturial on Inhabitat.com that step by step guides you through the make. It also mentions a useful tip to freeze your tin cans before using to help avoid denting and for ease of punching the design out.

Designs can be pattern-based, outlines of butterflies or birds or you could even do letters and spell out a name or phrase. These would be great at an outdoor wedding with the names of the bride and groom or simply ‘love’ or ‘happiness’.

Punch design pattern templates to follow if you’re not confident with freehand can be drawn on first and you can also download and print patterns to follow.

home: nice price [ tropical tray ]

Summer is almost upon us and as the weather heats up we can finally start moving outdoors to eat, drink, and entertain.
We found this tropical print tray from hm.com [ £12.99 ] which is bright and fun and will bring focus to any table. There are also matching cushions and coasters, also at a great price.

[ full tropical trend post coming up in a couple of weeks ]

home: featured [ Hutsly ]

This online store is an immense treasure trove of shopping for indoors and outdoors, everything from soft furnishings to ceramics, furniture to mirrors.

Hutsly covers so many trends and styles with good pricing and a great sale department.

Keys finds include black glass pendant light, rocking chair, wire lamp shade and nine arm candle holder.

home: found this [ garden chair ]

As the weather gets better, find a comfortable reading spot outside, instead of in.

This great, oversized outdoor wicker seat from Maison Du Monde would be a welcome retreat after a long day, in the garden.

Browse their outdoor range to find dining sets, loungers, tables and more to make your garden the perfect outdoor styled room.

£234.20

home: nice price [ tableware ]

Following on from the ‘colour therapy‘ trend featured last week, we continue to fall in love with more colour.
This collection of tableware – bamboo tumblers, plates and bowls from Habitat fits the brief for bright refreshing alfresco dining, and we think they are a great price, as all outdoor products are currently 20% off.
Set of 4 bamboo tumblers, set of 4 bamboo bowls or set of 4 bamboo plates are all now only £4.
As well as dining the sale includes accessories, furniture and planters. So don’t hang about, grab something now.

[ Extra tip – as the little Habitats are being taken out of DIY stores Homebase you will find 30% off everything in these selected concessions, so head to your nearest Homebase to hunt out a bargain ]

home: favourite thing [ Tiger ]

Last month we featured Tiger [ nice price ], and we still can’t get enough of the Danish brand. Continuing with their new Spring collection we see the addition of planters and pots in pastel shades. Choose from zinc buckets and plant pots, ceramic hanging planters and plastic corrugated flower pots [ starting from £2 ]. Great for indoors and out.

tigerstores.co.uk

Don’t hang about, the best pieces can go quick.

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 [ Sommar 2016 ]

Ikea have done it again, creating an attractive collection of soft furnishings, tableware and glassware. The Sommar collection is promoted as an outdoor range, ready for garden parties, but there are some great pieces including striped cushions, royal blue tableware, rugs and printed trays which you can use indoors now [ starting from £1.50 ].

Ticking the box for previous trend ‘Fresh Nautical‘ there are elements to take from the collection to fit this look for Spring, and we love it.

Limited stock available online, head to ikea.com to find your nearest store and full collection.

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