Quince Living is a veritable feast of living and lifestyle shopping, with a huge range of designers and brands in their many departments.
‘…online family run store for Scandinavian home wares and UK made designs along with products from well-loved home wares brands such as Stelton, Nkuku, Orla Kiely and House of Rym.’
With so many great pieces for every room, plus decorations, stationery, kids decor, furniture – it’s endless. The price range varies from affordable to save-up-for and there’s also lovely pieces in their sale section.
Miss Print at John Lewis / bringing the outdoors in
Not that we don’t appreciate a painted wall and the ease of changing colour, but recently wallpaper has just grown in choice with incredible options of style and look for any room.
Technology has helped us by bringing in paste-the-wall paper instead of paste-the-paper, which allows us all to have a go at hanging wallpaper with much more ease.
To pin point a favourite would be hard but we’ve rounded up groups of our favourite designs and found some of the best stores to head to.
Make a statement with a bold design. For a wow factor, especially effective with nature and floral designs, cover all walls and then push the look further with more strong patterns in the soft furnishings. This look can be softened, instead, by using minimal accessories, clean line furniture and lots of white.
Bold patterns can also be effective on a solo wall as a feature wall and then when styling the room pick one or two colours to follow through in the choice of soft furnishings.
Baltic Shop / Graham & Browne
Fun and colourful designs are great for a children’s bedroom and can also be both educative, when the designs involve words, pictures and numbers, and interactive, with designs that involve stories, colouring in and games. Visit Graham & Browne and Baltic Shop for interactive options.
For a grown up, strong look, it is currently a key trend to go dark in interiors and contrary to belief it actually brightens a room. Contrast with white ceilings, light floors and sits well with dark woods and accessories in monochrome and metallics.
A constant favourite is monochrome. Easy to style and regularly update with black and white accessories as well as new on trend colours like copper and also 80s brights, monochrome allows flexibility and never fails to look fresh and stylish. Monochrome sits well with walnut, white or wire furniture.
If you decide to go for a wall covering we’ve discovered the excellent range of Betapet who not only have a great selection of bold, on-trend patterned and exciting designs but also, quite brilliantly, their range is self adhesive ensuring decorating is even easier! Head to their Etsy shop and choose from stripes, geometric and nature-inspired designs.
Betapet / self adhesive wallpaper / find on Etsy
Wallpaper is definitely a modern look and needs to be considered a great way to bring pattern and strong design to interior design. And it isn’t to be discounted, thinking its a hassle to change as realistically it’s just a strip and re-paper if desired. Patterned designs can be great at covering imperfect walls (unlike unforgiving paint) and with new methods of hanging there’s very little mess and fuss!
Since 2013, lovely Flora has been curating gorgeous unique designers and brands in her online store, Violet and Percy.
‘Violet and Percy is a UK lifestyle and interiors shop selling homewares, gifts and stationery influenced by some of my favourite things: British humour, Scandinavian cool and a pop of Mediterranean sunshine.’
The products, including prints, ceramics, lighting and garlands, are hand selected and embrace new, talented designers. All products sit will together and would combine to bring great style to any home. Flora is keen to only stock products that she loves and would have herself, and the result is a great, well thought selection of goods – well priced, well designed and on trend.
Great products in the online store sell out fast so to be up to date with the latest in (online) store, follow Violet and Percy on Instagram or Twitter .
We encouraged, we embraced and we excitedly bought the latest in technology. We made our lives easier with computers and emails, no longer needed seperate devices for photography, work, writing and tv (now all in the palm of our hand). We created minimal homes with hidden features and buttons to evolve and improve our habitat.
Now we remember the joy of hand writing, handling printed matter, the emotion of an actual photograph in the hand, or on the wall, and the memory it evokes. We look to books and script, appreciating the written form and the ink from real letterpress printing.
Bring this emotion and tactile quality back into the home with words and pictures. Use initials, words, quotes and poetry to demonstrate the household characters, lifestyle and personalise your home. In prints on the wall, home accessories, fabric design and even use greys and inky blues synonymous with print and type as the colour palette.
1 Using initials in a wall display / where fonts become art
3 Create a gallery wall of artistic, eclectic, quirky family photography. Print your photos with Photobox
4 Visit a professional photographer* for a family photo shoot. Make your family into a piece of photographic art [ photo credit www.kristendukephotography.com ]
5 DIY typography cork board using paint and stencils
To create a unique and affordable stylish floor, try floor stencils or decals. When you’ve fallen for some beautiful, but expensive, moroccon tiles or maybe want to recreate a Victorian floor or simply love the look of patterned floors, stencilling or decals are a great way to reproduce the look yourself at a fraction of the price.
If you’re lucky you already have decent floor boards to use as a base, these would need to be thoroughly cleaned and lightly sanded to ensure the paint takes to the surface. If the floorboards aren’t in decent shape then you could look to lay a plywood covering to provide a smooth layer to paint onto. You will need a good water based paint or floor paint and a good floor varnish to finish and seal.
If going for a decal, again, the floors would need to be prepped – clean and smooth, and a good varnish will ensure its long lasting.
Be inspired by current trends of geometric, lace and monochrome for an up to date look or even look into designing your own decals or stencils that you could lay to create your perfect floor from Pixart Printing or have a look at the range of tile style decal stickers from Zazzle.
When cork, copper and ceramic are used to describe one single item it’s definitely a winning combination.
We love this half and half cork and copper coloured ceramic vase from Quince Living. It would work well grouped with other pieces from the range and looks striking against a dark background like Farrow and Ball’s ‘Pitch Blue‘ or Dulux’s ‘Teal Tension‘.
Without leaving the comfort of you own home you can visit the super Anthropolgie sale, that already had some great bargains, but now has an extra 30% off on the homeware sale event.
BHS never fails to disappoint with their lighting department with a mix of traditional, modern, retro reproduction and industrial lighting.
Their current ceiling light collection is full of absolute design perfection using glass and metals, and styles including cluster, vintage and midcentury modern.
Currently there is 20-25% off most of their lighting so it’s a good time to invest in something new for the home.
With simple, minimal design, strong typography influences, a great colour palette and good pricing there is timeless pieces for every room. Skandivis will bring any home great style and clean lines.
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