home: trend [ curve appeal ]

Give your home ‘curve appeal’, soften those edges, bring circular and rounded patterns and silhouettes into an interior to create a calm feel and modern design look.

Introduce the circular design in fabrics, wallpapers and other patterned soft furnishings, or try curves in furniture – rounded tables, soft cornered shelving, and moulded smooth plastic furniture.

Look for inspiration from midcentury interiors and 1960s styling but give it a modern look by minimising too many bright colours and not clashing too many patterns. Furniture in plywood and plastic are always strong for curved silhouettes. Head to print stores like King & Mcgaw and Seventy Tree for extra details in your styling by introducing prints with circle patterns and colours that match your scheme.

1 Cushion £10 Made.Com

2 Rug £59.95 Scandiborn

3 Lamp Shade (from) £375 Tom Raffield

4 Chair £99 Dwell

5 Sofa £3295 Sweet Pea & Willow

6 Tiles (from) £6.50 Mosafil

7 Wallpaper £20 Graham Brown

8 Tray £85 GemmaWightmanCeramics

9 Coffee Table £159 La Redoute

home: made [ Halloween wreaths ]

Not content with just having something creative and beautiful adorn your door at Christmas, why not also look to getting creative for Halloween.

With different levels of complexity, there’s a plethora of tutorials across the internet for Halloween DIY wreaths.

Country Living has pulled together 35 of the best diy wreaths (see main image) giving you great inspiration – and the tutorials to follow. Whether it’s something ghoulish and fun or more stylish and autumnal there’s designs to suit everyone.

We also love the explosion of colours and textures from the fun wreath diy from TheWreathDepot (top right main image)

home:favourite thing [ clock ]

home: favourite thing [ clock ]

The new SNOFSA table clock from Ikea is a perfect addition to a bedroom. Not only is it a great style, a nod to Art Deco with a slightly modernised silhouette, but also the clever designers have introduced a silent mechanism so no annoying ticking sound.

In a brass coloured finish, it’s on trend, and just £12.

home: found this [ book ]

Interior stylist, Emma Bloomfield, as well as recently launching an online decorating school, has written a book. For styling your home it’s a must-have addition to your bookshelf. Easy step by step guides to ensuring your home flows and comes together, with complimenting styles, colours and accessories.

Home acts as a friendly, room-to-room guide to creating a look you love and a space you are proud to show off – without breaking the bank or starting from the ground up.

With beautiful but hard-working illustrations, Emma demystifies the five elements of decorating – needs and wants, colour and pattern, shape and size, placement, and lighting – and shows how easy it can be to apply them to each room in your house. Whether you’re refreshing your look, moving in, organising your home office, decorating a nursery or creating an outdoor oasis, Emma’s tried-and-tested advice will inspire and guide you.

With original illustrations, clever floorplans, practical decorator’s tips and styling 101s, Home is a timeless handbook for anyone who has ever doubted their decorating ability, or craved a helping hand through the process.

Home:The Elements of Decorating by Emma Blomfield

home: nice price [ floor seat ]

Affordable, aesthetically pleasing, ticks trend boxes and is a practical and useful piece of furniture. Add this triangle patterned floor seat to your home to sit well with monochrome styling, Scandinavian design or in a vibrant mix match patterned room.

Its versatility, great customer reviews and modest pricing make it an excellent investment.

Just £39 from George at Asda. Available from larger stores or online.

home: featured [ Lino Loca ]

We love discovering new stores and just in it’s early days we find Lino Loca, a lovely new shop on Etsy.

The print designs are mostly based round cacti which ticks a great trend box plus the prints are currently mostly monochrome so perfect for a black and white lovers interior space!

UK based, Lino Loca, and a newbie to the world of Etsy, we predict great things for this Lino cutting designs/prints store.

Only a few bits to choose from so far but we are sure there’ll be even more delights to choose from soon.
Prices from £12

home: trend [ dark berry ]

It gets quite dark and opulent-gothic this autumn with bringing dark berry into home interiors. Layering up tones of this shade – think burgundy, port, rose, grape and other deep rich berry-like shades create a warm, inviting interior to see you into colder months.

Keep the look modern with matt tones and matt fabrics, use along side dark woods and allow textures of wool, leather and velvet to work together.

Think to use shades all the way from floor to walls to window covering to give strength to the look and pop in other jewel tones if want the odd highlight to break up the colour.

1 ‘Rectory Red’ Paint / Farrow + Ball

2 Pouffe / Bohemia £78.40 (seconds)

3 Sofa / Sofasworld £499.99

4 Lustre Rug / John Lewis (from) £200

5 ‘Ilaria’ Light / Made.com £29

6 Berry tones used within an interior

7 Velvet Cushion / M&S £25

8 Throw / House Of Fraser £190

9 ‘Radicchio’ Paint / Farrow + Ball

home: featured [ Present Indicative ]

home: featured [ Present Indicative]

For unique homeware, perfect for gifts, we just love the range of unique academic-inspired home accessories.

There’s glassware, ceramics, tea towels, prints and quirky pieces including the brutalist ‘Archilamp‘ and ‘Obessive Chef‘ precise measuring chopping board.

Present Indicative is the sister site of The Literary Gift Company. The Literary Gift Company was launched in 2009 and has over 1000 gifts for book lovers. Present Indicative offers a similar range of unusual and beautiful gifts but with more of an academic twist. We love beautiful, practical and intelligent gifts for thinking people, including clothing, jewellery, games, and much much more.

home: featured [ Pentreath + Hall ]

Sometimes it’s good not to be minimal, and have the coldness of a monochrome interior. Pentreath + Hall embrace colour, pattern, beautiful design and layering up textures to ensure perfect interior inspiration.

Tucked away in Rugby Street, Bloomsbury, London, this store is bursting at the seams with homeware, furniture and accessories. Also available online, every department is covered – a great place to buy interiors gifts or treat yourself to a new look for a room.

Around for almost a decade, the duo behind the retail outlet have an interiors, architecture and artistic background. This has evidently come together perfectly in their great buying choices and curated ranges.

Visit them online or in store. Currently you can enjoy shopping the Summer sale too.

home: featured [ Pitfield ]

Head to Pitfield Street, London W1 and seek out this treasure trove of both new and vintage unique pieces.

Together with its cafe, Pitfield is a pleasure to explore and a place to discover the weird and the wonderful to update interiors in your home. They even have a bug hotel for sale and offer a design service!

Find them at :

31-35 Pitfield Street, London, N1 6HB

They say,

‘Attracting the creative and curious, our eclectic emporium stocks only beautiful, unique and attention grabbing homewares. Our interiors and lifestyle shop, café and exhibition gallery presents colour, glamour, glitz and excitement. Discover vintage finds, designer wallpapers and carpets, reworked furniture, inspiring gifts and more. Browse our categories to enter a fantastical world where everything is retro and riveting, dramatic and daring.’

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