home: featured [ Mor Margate ]

home: featured [ Mor Margate ]

Trailing round the boutique shop lined streets of Margate which is soon becoming a very hip seaside town, you may stumble across Mor. Definitely worth a visit to browse and shop their homeware, gifts and accessories – both from new brands and also some vintage pieces.

They say;

Môr (translation – ‘The Sea’ in Welsh) is run by Clare Roberts a former costume designer and manager of a London based lifestyle store who has a passion for beautiful homewares both vintage and contemporary along with design led gifts. 

Located opposite the Turner Contemporary in the beautiful Margate Old town, 38 Fort Hill

home: made [ placemats ]

home: made [ placemats ]

We are always looking for ways to make a statement for dinner parties with the place settings.

We found some incredible ideas on DIYS.com – with varying levels of skills needed, there’s all sorts of creative projects to make stylish placemats to finish of your dining place settings perfectly. These could be used for home or for a wedding, kids party or other function. There’s lots of ways to personalise settings with names, themes, and colours.

Special placemats at a wedding could also then be the wedding favour or personalise them for a kids party and then pop them in the party bags at the end!

home: favourite thing [ cushion ]

home: favourite thing [ cushion ]

Add a little jungle print to a living area with this pretty little jungle illustrated cotton cushion from George at Asda.

Perfectly in line with the trend of bringing the outdoors in – with lush greens, foliage and fauna.

Just £6

home: trend [ maritime ]

home: trend [ maritime ]

The new ‘maritime’ trend has a far softer and subtle feel than nautical trends of the past.

Still with a feel of being in and around the sea coast but through textures, colours, patterns and imprints as opposed to more obvious use of rope, anchors and red, blue and white.

The colours are washed out blues, sandy beiges, dirty whites and with metallic hints to give an edge of boat engines, rusty hand rails and anchor chains and using natural weave in rugs, runners and chair seats; as a nod to sailors rope.

There’s much layering in textures and fabrics, with patterns of stripe, weave and linear illustration alike to shell patterns.

Add in collected nicknacks from travels, clusters of vases and stick to natural fabrics and surfaces – wood, wicker, bamboo, cotton, wool and silk.

Main picture guide:

Stool £45 Trouva / Paint from £23 Wickes / Rug £299 La Redoute

Sofa £1445 Loaf / Vase / EBay / Sideboard £651 Turnball & Thomas

Vase £18 Plumo / Light £88.45 More Handles / Curtain £88 Anthropologie

Inspiration from Ikea (above)

home: made [ Ikea cabinet hack ]

home: made [ Ikea cabinet hack ]

We love a good hack, and this one from hunker.com is a goodie.

Turn an Ivar cabinet from Ikea into a really modern woven fronted alternative. By simply cutting a panel out of the doors and attaching some cane webbing you can make a huge transformation.

Head to hunker.com for the tutorial

home: featured [ Hema ]

home: featured [ Hema ]

High street and online favourite, Hema, has got a whole lot of lovely homeware to give your home some new touches this Spring.

Lighting, soft furnishings, ceramics, bedding, frames, storage and more. See pictures for our favourite picks from their current collection.

They say;

The Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam, or H.E.M.A., opened its first department store in Amsterdam on 4 November 1926. Founders Leo Meyer and Arthur Isaac wanted to open a department store for “ordinary” people. Before this, department stores were very much aimed at wealthy people and most store personnel spoke French. HEMA, as it would later become known, was the first department store of its kind in the Netherlands. Products were priced at 10, 25 or 50 cents. And from day one, the essence of HEMA was defined as: optimistic, unique, clear, reliable, accessible and as typically Dutch. In 1927, HEMA opened its first store outside of Amsterdam and just a year later there were ten HEMA stores in the Netherlands. In the 1950s, HEMA was the first franchise organisation in the Netherlands and is still the largest franchise operator in the Netherlands. From 1958 onwards, HEMA picked up the pace of its expansion, rapidly opening new stores across the country. Then in 1984, HEMA opened its first store abroad, in Belgium.

The number of stores grew quickly and is still growing. Today, we have more than 750 stores in nine countries, with 19,000 employees serving over six million visitors every week. We remain loyal to our history, perfectly expressed in our brand essence: our products are always high quality, well designed and sold at a great price. All our products are developed in house, are sustainable and range from food to non-food articles. Which is why our products can be found in every household. In addition to our stores, we also offer 24/7 online shopping in all the countries in which we operate. 

home: found this [ side board ]

home: found this [ side board ]

Beautiful built furniture from the Cotswold Company can be browsed on their website. So many incredible pieces of furniture and our favourite is this oak Appleby Oak sideboard

They say;

Sometimes, you don’t want to hide everything away out of sight. Less a sideboard and more a display cabinet, this fine piece of furniture is glazed on three sides so it’s ideal for showing off and protecting your precious collectables. Crafted from solid oak and high quality oak veneers, and finished with a durable clear lacquer to keep it looking its rustic best, it has a double cupboard and a single cupboard – each with a single shelf – to help you organise things neatly.

home: nice price [ wooden frame mount ]

home: nice price [ wooden frame mount ]

These wooden frame mounts from hm.com are a great way of hanging your favourite print or poster as an alternative to a standard frame.

The two strips at top and bottom have magnets on, which clamp the picture in place. Available in 3 colours we love the simplicity of this style, which you could hang singularly on a wall or in a group.

[ £8.99 ]

home: favourite thing [ planter ]

home: favourite thing [ planter ]

Make more of a statement for your indoor planting with this gorgeous large brass look planter from Audenza. The weave imprint gives texture and it’s rich tone and beautiful metallic finish is perfect for the modern home easily sitting with many current interiors trends – metallics, monochrome, traveller, natural… such a versatile piece of homeware.

£125.95