home: favourite thing [ lamp ]

With a lot of the sales coming to an end there are some great new arrivals hitting stores over the next month. This table lamp from Rockett St George is new in and we love it. Available in black and copper the one piece metal stand and base is sleek and stylish. Perfect for a bedroom or office.

Rockettstgeorge.co.uk [ £49 ]

home: made [ rugs ]

We love a fun DIY project with great results. Produce and making your own homeware is satisfying, rewarding, often cheaper than buying the item and also a good way to update something old or plain.

We found some great tutorials at DIY Network for making and designing rugs for your home. There’s a great selection of different projects to achieve varying looks depending on your style or needs.

There’s also a great selection of tutorials at ArchitectureArtDesigns too

Many of the projects use old T-shirts, scraps of wool or fabric, or plain rugs which can be picked up cheaply and many highstreet homeware stores.

home: favourite thing [ bohemian blanket ]

No home can have too many blankets – for their practical warming use or for aesthetic reasons they are always useful. Change the look or colour scheme of a room by throwing over a chair or sofa, add texture and pattern to a bed styling, bring soft furnishing outside and use with garden furniture or thrown over the grass and kick back – either way having a few alternative blankets in store to mix and match or chop and change is handy.

We love the bohemian feel of the High Vibes blanket from Urban Outfitters and it’s only £35. Perfectly on trend and see you through to Autumn/winter home styling too.

home: nice price [ vases ]

Amongst the vast amount of great products that Rigby + Mac have, their vase and planter range is superb.

We love these great cactus vases, totally on trend and an incredible nice price from where we’ve seen similar else where.

Cluster in a group and set off on a crisp white background.

Rigby + Mac / small £19.95 or large £39.95

home: recommends [ Mia Fleur ]

Full of gorgeous, on trend homeware and furniture, Mia Fleur is one of the best curated online stores.

They go that extra length to not only offer a range of beautiful products but show ways to style – from accessories that would sit along side, paint colours that compliment the item, and now even collate vignettes of products that you can buy as a set to recreate the whole styled look in your home.

Create the perfect stylish, inviting and homely home by using their guides and advice.

Every room is catered for including the garden; with an incredible range of garden furniture, planters, accessories and lanterns to ensure your outside space, whatever size, looks as good as all your indoor spaces.

We’ve picked our current favourite 9 (see picture) but there’s endless items to treat your home to an update.

home: found this [ light ]

Bring midcentury style into your home with this perfect repro of a 50s-60s style light fitting from IKEA.

The GARDSKAR light shade is a great copy of the amazing design of the last century. It’s a great combination of red and white glass, and it gives a great diffused light that evenly spreads around a room.

£59 IKEA

home: event [ sale ]

One of the best sales in the homeware and accessories market is from Anthropologie. And it’s on now!

Anthropologie is an Alladins Cave of homeware delights. It cleverly collates a beautiful range of textures, patterns and bohemian and vintage trends with a broad price range. This ensures theirs something for everyone to bring beautiful design into their homes.

The sale is therefore a gold mine of bargains with huge discounts across all departments including kitchenalia, ceramics, lighting, soft furnishings, furniture, ornaments and books. With often over half price being offered on some lines we recommend exploring the sale in store or online from the comfort of your home.

It’s the perfect sale for buying small details to enhance your home and interiors; new handles for cupboards and doors, vases and glassware to create an impact on a shelf, cutlery to bring a new look to the dinner table or great interiors books both to look good on the coffee table and to inspire with great design ideas. Then you can also make big changes; invest in a rug, heavily discounted, to change the whole feel of a room or choose from incredible range of sale curtains to frame your windows or use this time to put your money into a new piece of furniture at a great price.

home: nice price [ mirror ]

With copper being the accessory colour of the season, it’s great to have small ways to introduce it into every room.

This small standing copper mirror, from Matalan, is the perfect addition to a bathroom shelf. It would sit perfectly in a monochrome bathroom with a few other hints of copper. Try Home Anatomy for a great copper toothbrush holder [£15], Habitat for the perfect copper tone loo brush [£25] and smart black and copper accessories from George at Asda.

Bathroom Copper Effect Rectangular Stand Mirror // Matalan

£5

home: found this [ sequin baskets ]

When Southwood Stores have so much amazing homeware it’s easy to find many favourites but these sequin baskets stand out the most.

These beautiful ‘Dassie’ sequin adorned baskets are the perfect way to store away many things and have a incredible lovely piece on show at the same time.

They come in three different sizes starting from the small basket at £15.95

home: made [ hallway hooks ]

Creativity and thinking out side the box can be stretched to any projects across the home.

Planning hallway hooks and storage can be an excuse to be quirky and fun, and you can design a system that not only looks good but works for your needs in the hallway – the room of the house that gets so much traffic and needs to function for accessible storage for coats, shoes, dog paraphenalia, shopping bags and all sorts.

When planning your hook system search google, Pinterest and similar for ideas and inspiration. Think about the type of hook and the type of layout. Hooks can be classic in look but arranged in a quirky order – you don’t have to have them in a straight line. Hooks can be colourful, unusual or could be made from other items that produce something that can act as a hook. We found door knobs, cutlery and even a rake head used for hanging.

Explore DIY store hook departments for a mix of traditional or modern shaped hooks. Hang metal hooks on a coloured wall or make hooks stand out on a white wall by spraying the hooks in great colours. You could use shades of one colour or look to current colour trends for inspiration.

Visit homeware stores like IKEA, Anthropologie and Tiger for a great mix of great designs and more unusual hooks.

And hooks don’t have to be directly onto the wall but could be mounted on panels of wood, pallets or even coming down from the ceiling. You can also think about combining hooks and baskets for a flexible interchangeable storage system.

Explore EBay, Not On The Highstreet and Amazon for cool modern metal baskets, vintage style aged baskets, woven baskets and old, or made to look worn, crates for effective storage that can hang from hooks.

You can create an eclectic display mixing height and style and change according to your needs, and add more hooks and baskets when you need more space. And if the hooks are empty why not hang decorative accessories for a design feature. Hooks can also be personalised with letters or names on or above using stencils or stick on initials (we spotted some easy peal stick on letters from Tiger in a great font).

Make your hallway personal and make a statement with the first room people see in your home.

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