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home: trend [ exotic ]

home: trend [ exotic ]

Another great trend for spring/summer is Exotic. A bright and vibrant trend full of print and texture. The main elements will come from the soft furnishings – floral and heavily patterned cushions, throws and rugs. Pile up cushions for depth on sofas and beds, with a statement rug as a focus in the middle of the room.
Accessories like bowls, vases and statement lighting help pull this look together. [ Check out West Elm ]
Wooden furniture, especially bamboo sit in this eastern influenced trend. Low units and tables work best in medium and dark woods.
Colours to consider are green, orange and purple with accents of gold and bronze, with texture coming from woven baskets and ceramics.

Guide:
1. Oak unit – Habitat.co.uk [ £195 ]
2. HAY throw – reallywellmade.co.uk [ £145 ]
3. Printed bowl – Westelm.co.uk [ £12 ]
4. Cushion – made.com [ £30 ]
5. Matthew Williamson wallpaper – johnlewis.com [ £89 ]
6. Pendant light – thelittlehouseshop.co.uk [ £55 ]
7. Wool tassels – grahamandgreen.co.uk [ £6.50 ]
8. Cushion cover – hm.com [ £3.99 ]
9. Candle lantern – hm.com [ £12.99 ]

home: featured [ Homeplace ]

home: featured [ Homeplace ]

Based in Walthamstow Homeplace has an eclectic selection of vintage, midcentury, retro and contemporary furniture, lighting and homeware.

‘We are passionate about great design – contemporary as well as midcentury but we are also fans of the quirky and the whimsical..and we like nothing better than mixing them all up to create eclectic interiors with heaps of individuality’

As well as the larger furniture and lighting pieces Homeplace had some great gift ideas, including ceramics, artwork and kitchenware, and with it’s ever-changing collection you get the best choice of styles and colours to fit your home.

Visit homeplace.co.uk to shop the collection. [ hire options are also available ]

home: found this [ COS x HAY ]

home: found this [ COS x HAY ]

Launching this Spring HAY has join forces with COS for a second time after their successful collaboration last year.
COS has been using HAY furniture for many years in their stores, so it seems very fitting that the two Scandinavian brands have come together.

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The clean lines, soft colour palette and durability of HAY products mirrors that of COS and they compliment each other seamlessly.
The collection itself is made up of accessories, stationary and furniture in shades of green, blue and pink all hand picked by the COS team from the new HAY collection.

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Last Autumn the two brands worked with Spanish designer Tomas Alonso  to create a folding table to be sold in COS stores. The success has lead to a continued partnership, and who knows what great things are next.

Available in COS – High St Kennsingtion and online at cosstores.com

[ HAY is available in some of the big department stores in London and around the country, as well as their stand alone store in Bath, plus you can hunt it out through online shops. ]

home: nice price [ vases ]

home: nice price [ vases ]

With Spring here and flowers in bloom, now is a good time to freshen up your living room with some new vases to put them in. If your looking for on-trend pieces at great prices then head to hm.com. With a huge selection in glass and ceramic there is something for everyone. [ from £4.99 ]

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Gather a few different styles & colours together to bring interest to a shelf, or pick a large statement vase for a centre piece on a table. [ We love a monochrome look, sticking with black and white in various styles ]

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home: event [ pop up shop ]

home: event [ pop up shop ] 

West Elm continue to support and give opportunities for new designers, and up and coming brands to get a platform to raise their profile. Here again they have cool, unique brand Refunk’d popping up shop in April at their Tottenham Court Road, London store. 

Running from 15-17th of April, head to West Elm and shop the one-off pieces of furniture and homeware. 

Opening hours 10am – 5pm / 209 Tottenham Court Road W1T 7PN 

” Set up in 2010 Refunk’d by Ursh Stevens in order to create one off pieces of awesomeness from preloved furniture & scrap yard finds.

From glamorous air hostess came the skip rat, salvage specialist, award winning furniture designer Ursh Stevens the owner of Refunk’d. Using scrap yard finds Ursh creates one of pieces that are far removed from the identikit furniture found on the high street. ” 

  

home: trend [ off the grid ] 

home: trend [ off the grid ] 

Dulux have sought out another exciting trend. Your interiors can become clean and bright with the lines and colours of the Off-The-Grid trend. 

It brings together the control of chaos  with the framework of lines, wire grid work and monochrome clarity, with a playful ‘off the grid’ freedom using splashes of colour with a fun bright tonal palette. Essentially this trend brings together the on-trend colours of coral, teal, copper and yellow with the crisp linear simplicity of the monochrome trend. 

Search for grid pattern wall papers ( try Ferm Living ), big geometric patterns on soft furnishings from brands including Next, Zazzle and John Lewis, and colourful bold items of furniture that will sit against a monochrome backdrop. Head to Made for a huge selection of bright stand alone pieces of furniture at great prices. 

‘We need boundaries in which to live, even if we seek to rebel against them, freedom is only understandable within the context of a framework’ Dulux 

1 Lewis shelf £600 Urban Outfitters 

2 Diamond table £150 Urban Outfitters 

3 Geometric cushion £7 George at Asda 

4 Sofia armchair £350 Urban Outfitters 

5 Nadadora Diver print £40 Southwood Stores 

6 White diamond cage light £79 The Electrical Shop 

7 Christian Lacroix wallpaper £65 John Lewis 
 

home: nice price [ Tiger ] 

home: nice price [ Tiger ] 

Major player in the affordable design-led retail homeware market, Tiger produces trend aware home accessories season after season, coupled with innovative design and at remarkably low prices [ go in for one thing, come out with ten ! ] 

Their new season range doesn’t fail to disappoint with a colour palette of pastels mints and corals, copper, monochrome and lovely geomatic and ethic inspired patterns.

There’s coral and mint tray sets for £5, colourful rugs for £4 and pink or silver bookends for £3, plus much much more. 

Visit your local store [ find a store ] and hunt out these homeware gems. 

  

home: featured [ Violet and Percy ] 

home: featured [ Violet and Percy ] 

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. 

Stocked designers include Playtype, Block Design, Talking Tables and Cooee Design 

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 .

  

home: daily [ competition ] 

home: daily [ competition ] 

  
Don’t miss this chance to win a collection of iconic Anglepoise lighting. 

This Design Museum competition, in conjunction with the Sample Sale, is a must-enter. 

http://designmuseum.org/win-a-full-roomset-from-anglepoise 

Competition closes March 6