home: featured [ George at Asda ]

home: featured [ George at Asda ]

Head to high street supermarket Asda for some unexpected gorgeous finds in their George homeware department. Ticking lots of the current trend boxes and having great quality pieces across all departments.

Trends covered include marble, geometric, typography, copper and all black.

The affordable low prices make it super easy to give a whole new look to a room on a budget.

Our top picks are brilliantly priced bedding, including a lovely marble design, for just £16 for the super king size duvet. Other marble pattern pieces including lighting (£22) and tea light holders (£6). And we love the boho style floor cushion (pictures) (£25).

home: featured [ cave interiors ]

home: featured [ cave interiors ]

Nestled in Primrose Hill, and online, is the wonderful Cave Interiors, offering a wonderful authentic mix of vintage and new design for the home.

The owners vast experience in interior design is evident in the excellent curated departments including lighting, accessories and furniture.

Internationally sourced vintage pieces sit along side furniture and homeware designers from across the world bringing a shopping experience both unique and tailored to you if you also opt for using their interior design services too.

They say;

Georgina Cave studied at the Interior Design School before founding Cave Interiors in 2002. With what has been described as “an infectious passion” for architecture, design, art and antiques, she soon became known for creating beautiful but real homes, each tailored to suit her clients’ individual needs, style & personality.

Having successfully grown the business with a relentless pursuit of creative quality, Georgina today leads a team of hand-picked designers which is regularly briefed to deliver spatial planning and end-to-end design for both old and new-build house projects, alongside some of London’s leading architects.

Drawing on long established relationships with specialist suppliers, craftsmen, builders and a vast network of international sources for salvage, antiques and unusual items, Cave Interiors’ work now extends to the complete renovation of historic and landmark listed buildings. Georgina herself has appeared on BBC1’s ‘Britain’s Empty Homes’, been profiled in House & Garden, as well as having her work featured in a range of magazines and the book ‘Casual Living’ by Judith Wilson, one of the UK’s leading interiors writers.

home: favourite thing [ rug ]

home: favourite thing [ rug ]

With the trend for all things grey staying strong we love this antique-style patterned grey rug from Wilkos.

Great quality from this affordable high street favourite, at just £50

Style with clean minimal whites for added texture to a plain interior or with a range of deep jewel tones for a more dark, on-trend, opulent look.

home: event [ talk at Heals ]

home: event [ talk at Heals ]

If you’ve ever purused the Instagram feed of Mad About The House (aka Kate Watson-Smyth) you’ll know she has incredible style, ability to create wonderful interiors and her home is drool worthy.

So it’s a definite date for the diary, snap up tickets, for her talk at Heals, London, on Thursday May 24th. And for the affordable ticket price of just £20 you even get a copy of her book!

Book now!

They say ;

Join Kate Watson-Smyth, founder of the blog ‘Mad About The House’, for a talk that will change the way you look at your home.

Drawing on a wealth of experience, Kate, interiors expert and founder of the blog ‘Mad About The House’, will share tips and top hacks on doing up and styling every home, whatever your style and budget.

A copy of Kate’s new book ‘Mad About The House: How to decorate your home with style’ (Pavilion Books, RRP £20) is included in the ticket price.

home: trend [ peach]

home: trend [ peach ]

2018 sees peach as the new colour to love. Peach is the ‘new’ blush – becoming a colour favoured as a great highlight in dark grey or black, or minimal white interiors.

It’s great as a highlight, but create a beautiful look with blending shades of the hue across a room, keep it minimal with no pattern but let the colour do the talking.

Main picture guide :

Top Row / Highlight one wall in a white interior / ‘Crushed Peach’ Paint £16 B&Q / Lamp £7 Dunelm

Middle Row / ‘Heidi’ Bedding from £25.50 Debenhams / Chair £140 Oliver Bonas / Vase £43 Amara

Lower Row / ‘Oscar’ Sofa £1745 Loaf / Rug £159 I Rugs / Blending shades of peach with cream, beige and natural shades.

Peach inspiration

home: made [ hanging banners ]

home: made [ hanging banners ]

Following the trend of macrame wall hangings last year as well as the ever popular typography in art, we are now seeing the two combined with hanging banners with quotes.

Perfect for a kids bedroom, or kitchen why not create your own banner with a personalised message. Hang on a wall with a mixture of prints and photos and it her wall decor for an eclectic look.

We have found some fun tutorials to inspire you.

homedit.com

butfirstcoffeeblog.com

alittlecraftinyourday.com

coolcrafts.com

home: featured [ John Lewis ]

home: featured [ John Lewis ]

Head to John Lewis for a new look for the home. If you love bright colours, we’ve collated our favourite current pieces currently in-store and online.

A colourful look is great with a retro twist. Stick with hues that are similar shades of a few bright colours, with turquoise, burnt orange and red for a midcentury twist. Keep sofas, armchairs or other main furniture pieces in statement plain bright colours and opt for patterns in home accessories. Look for quirky additions like the John Lewis ‘On Air‘ light box and mix fun patterns like geometric and block printing in curtains, throws and cushions.

home: trend [ pineapples ]

home: trend [ pineapples ]

Love them or loath them, pinapples are this years choice of fruit…again! Seemingly beating of the likes of the cherry, banana and watermelon, this year we will continue to see pinapples on soft furnishings, wallpapers and in the form of accessories.

Bring some fun summer vibes to a room with bright wall art or printed cushion or keep it sophisticated with a tonal wallpaper.

Selection of prints from desenio.co.uk

Show your love of pineapples with accessories, like lighting, kitchenware or bookends, anything goes and there is a huge array to pick from.

Guide:

Top row: wall sconce from grahamandgreen.co.uk [ £139 ], salad servers from hm.com [ £8.99 ], wallpaper from rockettstgeorge.co.uk [ £87 ]

Middle row: Wall decoration from laredoute.co.uk [ £15 ], mirror from asos.com [ £35 ], cushion from sassandbelle.co.uk [ £15 ]

Bottom row: bookends from rockettstgeorge.co.uk [ £49 ], ornament from trouva.com [ £35 ], wallpaper from johnlewis.com [ £59 ]

home: made [ staircases ]

home: made [ staircases ]

Time to get creative with your staircase. Across the internet there are so many creative ideas for designing unique looks for a staircase.

From blending colours upwards, stair by stair; using favourite Pantone colours on each tread; mixing treated real wood with a shade that suits your home; using a graphic inspiration quirky design across the stairs.

Have a peak at ;

DIYNetwork.com

ZipperedInfo

DesignerTrapped

home: trend [ marble coffee tables ]

home: trend [ marble coffee tables ]

Marble is strong trend for so many homewares and furniture, it’s been high on the radar for a while and is set to stay there this year. It’s such a great material, it’s practically become a new neutral. It can sit amongst many strong interior trends and work with many home styles. It goes perfectly with a minimalistic white interior but is equally a great way to break up and brighten an interior using strong jewel tones – layered and dark. Marble can come in black, white or sandy tone and this lends itself to an easy add in to designing a room.

A nice easy way to introduce or use marble when styling a room is with a coffee table. And there is an absolute abundance of high street, designer and online stores offering a huge variety of styles, silhouettes, sizes and prices.

Designs often mix marble tops with metal framework base either quite minimal or with a geometric influence or wooden legs, wooden frames and even matching it with another material like wood or plastic and segmenting the top surface.

1 £199 La Redoute

2 £549 Dwell

3 £199 Dunelm

4 £499 Swoon

5 £798 Anthropologie

6 £259 Atkin + Thyme

7 £325 Loaf

8 £1,298 Anthropologie

9 £359.99 Wayfair