home: featured [ West Elm ]

There’s so much to love and admire about West Elm. They are a brand, with a conscience, focused on honesty and sustainability. Both on in the virtual and physical stores there is a wealth of incredible design, styling and interiors inspiration and guidance. West Elm can make a home – a real home; a blended, co-ordinated but eclectic, homely but chic, environment. 

Their huge array of homewares and furniture is spot on both in design, quality and although high end of the price scale – it’s worth it. Plus, when there’s a sale, which currently there is (with up to 60% off) it’s a good time to invest in a few updates for your home or even a whole overhaul of a room. 

The style is midcentury modern, mixed with bohemian and a little industrial. They create ‘looks’ that can be strong trends or ideas that can bring a subtle new trend into a home. 

We found our top favourite pieces in the sale (see picture) but explore the sale yourself for great discounts in every department. 

home: found this [ light ] 

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 ] 

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: featured [ Luke Arthur Wells ] 

home: featured [ Luke Arthur Wells ] 

Size isn’t everything. The compact curated collection of wares in the Luke Arthur Wells online shop is all you need for a little inspiration for your home and treats to buy, to introduce the latest trends into your home. 

Interior stylist and designer, Luke, offers this capsule collection of homeware from an online store with regular product updates and trend aware new items. 

The store stocks great simple style. Choose from the selection of small homewares ticking the boxes of concrete, geometric, metallic, smoked glass and monochrome trends, to name a few. 

www.lukearthurwells.com/shop/ 

home: featured [ Shedquarters ]

home: featured [ Shedquarters ]

Shedquarters is another great online shop full of contemporary homeware and stationary.
The cohesive collection shows something different to the customer, with strong design led ceramics including their marble espresso cups, vases and gorgeous blankets and throws.
The online shop is beautifully layed out and easy to navigate, so don’t waste any time and take a look.
[ There is also an inspiring blog to keep up to date with ]

Shedquartersonline.co.uk

home: event [ market ] 

home: event [ market ] 

A London must-visit is the weekly Sunday market at The Old Truman Brewery. 

EVERY SUNDAY / 10AM – 5PM / OLD TRUMAN BREWERY, LONDON, E1

The London Artisan is a curated marketplace in the heart of East London. A collaborative project between Designers/Makers and The Old Truman Brewery.

The London Artisan offer’s a diverse, quality, shopping experience that celebrates independent producers and makers. But more than that, it’s about people and place; meeting the makers, conversation with friends and embedding the social back into shopping.hopping.’

Not only is there homewares, textiles, ceramics and glassware but also lotions, potions, gifts and jewellery. Fill your home and treat yourself at the same time. 

home: trend [ tiles ] 

home: trend [ tiles ] 

The use of tiles are storming interior design this year. It’s about thinking outside the box with both designs, patterns but also where to use tiles.

Not just for the bathroom walls or a hallway floor, but bring a cool design feature to a bedroom with a tiled back drop to a bed, to a lounge with a feature wall or even for function use on hallway walls to help with the marks and wear from heavy traffic through this busy room. 

Explore high street stores like Topstiles, Habitat, Homebase and B&Q ; and online retailers including Zazous and The London Tile Co for affordable tiles. Mix patterned tiles with plain, square with oblong and play with size and shape with hexagon shaped tiles, large scale tiles and mosaics. 

We found great inspirational imagery  from House & Garden and some gorgeous ideas from Grand Designs

You can also explore the vinyl tile market with modern brands including Zazous and Amtico producing up to date designs in vinyl that is hard wearing, easy to lay and with very competitive pricing compared to porcelain or ceramic tiles.

Be bold with pattern or play safe with neutral tones and then over lay with rugs to bring pattern and interest to an interior. 

Tiles are hard wearing and functional. Use instead of carpet or wall paper as a great alternative. 

home: nice price [ armchair ] 

home: nice price [ armchair ] 

There’s a great discount, in the Habitat sale, on this gorgeous dogtooth MOMO armchair. 

Originally £395.00 and reduced to £275.00, this great retro inspired armchair is a great investment.

It could be set in a great monochrome designed interior or mixed up with clashing colourful pattern cushions, sat against a bold colour painted feature wall. 

home: featured [ Hutsly ] 

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

favourite finds at Hutsly

home: featured [ Go Aesthetic ]

home: featured [ Go Aesthetic ]

New favourite brand to the home interiors market is the cool Scandi-monochrome-minimally styled Go Aesthetic with their small well curated range of tableware, soft furnishings and home accessories.

‘…UK based online store focusing on great contemporary design and style. We stock a whole selection of independent designers, including Fine Little Day, Ester & Erik, Buddy & Bear, Coco Lapine, and many more.’

Monochrome fans will be well provided for with the variety of black and white patterned and grey tone items. Every trend box is ticked with designs in marble, patterns of geometric, repeat print and the hand-painted look, plus gorgeous prints of the natural world and storage solutions for kids and adults. 

Definitely a new brand to keep an eye on and they already have a great little sale section to grab some of their great homewares at reduced prices!