home: found this [ pitcher ]

home: found this [ pitcher ]

Looking for some gorgeous ceramics off the kitchen? Take a visit to Anthropologie.

These lovely glazed stoneware pitchers are a great way to add some colour and style into your kitchen. Use for water / drinks or as a utensil pot or vase.

The chiseled design and colouration gives these pitchers a truly rustic look.

[ from £16 ]

Anthropologie.com

home: trend [ navy blue ]

home: trend [ navy blue ]

The navy trend is staying for 2020. This deep blue hue is rich and strong, creating stylish interiors.

For the modern approach use in multitude on walls in paint or wallpaper, floors, soft furnishings and drapes. Layering the tone to create an overall blue canvas is a bold look. Break it up with highlights of bronze or copper and a few pieces in other deep jewel tones.

Soften the look with the use of grey tones, natural beiges and browns – walnut or teal for furniture and tan in sofas or armchairs.

Picture guide

Top

Crate • WallpaperStore £5 / Armchair • Made £499 (sale) / Rug • La Redoute £154 (sale)

Middle

Cushion • Trouva £85 (sale) / Bed • Next from £325 / Unit • Tikamoon £319 (sale)

Lower

Paint • Farrow + Ball ‘Scotch Blue’ / Cushion • M&S £19.50 / Sideboard • Maison Du Monde £324

home: nice price [ armchairs ]

home: nice price [ armchairs ]

Fancy a new armchair? There’s up to 25% off at La Redoute on their armchairs and with brands like Swoon under their belt there’s a gorgeous choice of ‘swoon’ worthy armchairs to choose from.

Pick a colour and style to suit your room and one of these chairs can become a focal point.

With silhouettes echoing design styles of Art Deco, industrial, Midcentury and contemporary – there’s a great choice.

home: featured [ Amazon]

home: featured [ Amazon ]

For many it’s the go-to site for buying things you need last minute (thank you amazon prime), others loath it for being the big quasher of other stores through its competitive pricing and ease of shopping – but it does offer small stores an outlet to reach a bigger market (albeit if they take a big cut) and also it’s surprisingly home to many many good interiors pieces.

By just searching under the top trends (scandi, industrial, marble, Moroccan, midcentury and more, there’s an abundance of great homewares and furniture that comes up – and at great prices!

Plus as the returns system is so easy, it makes it simple if you get the wrong product or change your mind.

See our top picture for our favourite picks at amazon .

home: trend [ tranquil dawn ]

home: trend [ tranquil dawn ]

With a new year brings new trends and new colours to get excited about, and this January sees the launch of Dulux colour of the year – Tranquil Dawn. A shade of green, that is close to a moss green and is a extremely calming colour. It is also very adaptable and can be used alongside pinks, stones, blues and earthy shades.

‘A colour inspired by the morning sky, to help give homes the human touch’

Similar shades of green are being seen in accessories and furniture. You may not want to necessarily layer green on green, but use this as an accent to create your space.We love the combination of pink & green, especially if you’re using it on a wall. Pink tableware and ceramics can also compliment a green wall and then add terracotta’s, yellows and blues to build up a gorgeous pallette.

Guide:

Clockwise from top left:

Sofa / ikea.com [ £425 ], rug / made.com [ £159 ], cushion cover / hm.com [ £12.99 ], vases / grahamandgreen.co.uk [ from £11.95 ], 2pk napkins / hm.com [ £8.99 ], pottery / rockettstgeorge.co.uk [ from £8 ]

home: favourite thing [ armchair ]

home: favourite thing [ armchair ]

With velvet still being very on trend for interiors, this sumptuous grey ‘Celine‘ armchair from Habitat, has a beautiful silhouette. It would make great extra seating for a lounge and is a classic piece to sit within a lot of styles of lounges. It would also look great in the corner of a bedroom.

Currently in their sale reduced from £225 to £180.

home: featured [ ARKET ]

home: featured [ ARKET ]

Now a firmly established brand, ARKET is a go to store for well designed, functional homeware.

It may not have the biggest range of items, but each one has been considered, and with a limited pattern and colour way throughout means that the pieces will work in most homes

Choose from ceramics, kitchenware, soft furnishings and accessories, as well as a bath and body range.

Head to arket.com or visit one of their 6 stores around the UK.

home: event [ art fair ]

home: event [ art fair ]

Book in this date for the diary to get some great new art for the walls.

Visit Connect: London’s Independent Art Fair 2020 at Mall Galleries, The Mall, SW1Y London, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom

They say;

The friendly dealers and well-known gallerists are bringing together a wide range of early, modern and contemporary work from London and well beyond, and will showcase a dazzling array of schools and styles, media and type. The accent will be on quality and accessibility; organised by a co-operative of dealers, this Fair will ensure that there is every opportunity for the average collector to indulge their collecting whims, with something to suit most pockets.

From beautiful collectors prints to European Modern Masters, the latest up and coming contemporary, to the well-respected Modern British names of the 20th century, with a sprinkling of stylish retro Scandinavian as well.

Admission £10, free for Friends of the Mall Galleries

home: featured [ Rume ]

home: featured [ Rume ]

For a little luxury and to make an investment in beautiful furniture and homeware for your home, head to Rume.

Currently with 10% off with code ‘LOVERUME’

Their own designed and crafted pieces are beautiful but also complimented with carefully curated pieces from other brands to sit alongside.

They say;

Rume was established fifteen years ago when husband and wife Richard and Libby Baker left the family furniture firm to set up their own separate but complementary company. The philosophy behind the new business was to delight in the beautiful and the beautifully made and to pursue this by making lovely furniture of original design to the very highest standards here in England.

home: trend [ top 5 of 2019 ]

home: trend [ top 5 of 2019 ]

Looking back over the year we have seen a lot of trends come and go but some have stuck, and we look forward to seeing what 2020 brings.

We have picked our top 5 trends of 2019, the ones that have had big influences on the high street and the ones we have loved to dip into.

Terracotta

A colour which has had its moments over the last few decades, particular in the 90’s when everyone was trying colour washes and paint effects. This year we saw it was back with block colour on furniture and soft furnishings.

A great colour to being warmth into a room and a lovely time to use for accessorising a space.

Slogan

Who doesn’t love a slogan! This trend moved from fashion into homeware early this year and has been bringing us laughter and empowerment through fun works and phrases.

Everyone needs a slogan cushion in their lives. Other popular choices were mugs & plates. Slogans and typography is sticking around and will always have a place in our homes.

Pumped up

This trend has really filtered down to the high Street after being featured in a lot of interior magazines as a must have design.

Wide armchairs, deep sofas and oversized proportions were the only requirements, and we loved it. Perfect for the second half of this year, where we are always ready cosy up in front of the TV.

Pick your furniture carefully and it will last and not date. Mix this style with other looks to keep it fresh.

Jewel tones

Glassware is no longer boring. If you are looking to update your collection,then go for something colourful. Jewel tones have been big this year and we are both fans of this.

Lots of stores have jumped on the back of this look, and there are loads to choose from. Mix and match the colours and styles for a vintage style.

Matt finishes

In contrast to the brightly coloured glass we have just mentioned there was a more sutbtle, calming trenda making an appearance this year.

For those that like your home’s fuss free and minimal, matt finishes were everywhere, and still are. Kitchen fronts, wardrobes and table tops are the most popular choices, in black and green shades, but also ceramics and accessories were being finished in matt for an alternative to glazed or glass.