Tag: interiors

home: recommends [ Mia Fleur ] 

home: recommends [ Mia Fleur ]

Full of gorgeous, on trend homeware and furniture, Mia Fleur is one of the best curated online stores. 

They go that extra length to not only offer a range of beautiful products but show ways to style – from accessories that would sit along side, paint colours that compliment the item,  and now even collate vignettes of products that you can buy as a set to recreate the whole styled look in your home. 

Create the perfect stylish, inviting and homely home by using their guides and advice. 

Every room is catered for including the garden; with an incredible range of garden furniture, planters, accessories and lanterns to ensure your outside space, whatever size, looks as good as all your indoor spaces. 

We’ve picked our current favourite 9 (see picture) but there’s endless items to treat your home to an update. 

home: recommends [ Future and Found ]

home: recommends [ Future and Found ]

Nestled behind a parade of shops opposite Tufnell Park station, London is Future and Found, a contemporary scandinavian influenced store full of gifts, homeware, and stationary.
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Owned and run by Andrea Bates, she has created a carefully curated collection of trend led items all with a clean coordinated theme running through. The simple yet stunning pieces include brands such as HAY, Muuto, Louise Madzia ceramics, Studio Esinem prints plus many many more.

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Our favourites include the HAY furniture, ceramics full of vibrant prints and textiles including cushions, throws and rugs.

Follow @futureandfound on Instagram and Facebook.

home: trend [ marble ] 

home: trend [ marble ] 

Marble is cool, clean and calming in an interior. It can add an extra dimension to white interiors and sits perfectly with the current popular copper, metallic and pastel trends. 

It can be introduced in a subtle or strong way. 

For a big impact use on walls or floor. There are some great modern marble wall papers and marble tiles can be effective on both walls and floors. We found some incredibly affordable vinyl self adhesive tiles from B&Q that would be a cost effective, quick way to introduce marble into a room. Tiles can be a great alternative to feature wall paper for a focus in a room. 

For subtle hints of marble use small homewares including vases, dishes, trays or even a small feature shelf to add a little of this trend to a room. To combine a few great trends try using a large marble tray on a white coffee table with a cluster selection of candles in metallic or copper holders – to make a central feature to your lounge. 

1. Using a splash back of marble can lift a minimal white kitchen with a gentle touch of texture.

2. Ferm Living marble wallpaper / £59.95 Naken 

3. Marble night light holders / from £6.95 / Rigby + Mac 

4. Marble rectangle ceramic plate / £6.99 / H&M 

5. Marble melamine tray / £16.00 / Mia Fleur 

6. Marble, glass  + iron trolley / £395 / Oliver Bonas 

home: recommends [ Peastyle ] 

home: recommends [ Peastyle ] 

In their words ‘scandi, minimalist and fun’, the lovely PeaStyle online store brings us a wealth of gorgeous homeware and furniture. 

Based in the Vale of Glamorgon, South Wales, this brand has a great eye for curating a range of goods for the home with quality, price and style all a key focus. 

Our favourite picks from their current range are their concrete tables and their well priced gorgeous selection of runners and rugs. We also love the ever popular Le Sac En Papier storage bags that are so versatile for storage and even make great plant pots! 

Follow them @pea_style on Instagram or on Facebook  

http://www.peastyle.co.uk

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: 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: 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 [ mirror ] 

home: nice price [ mirror ] 

With copper being the accessory colour of the season, it’s great to have small ways to introduce it into every room. 

This small standing copper mirror, from Matalan, is the perfect addition to a bathroom shelf. It would sit perfectly in a monochrome bathroom with a few other hints of copper. Try Home Anatomy for a great copper toothbrush holder [£15], Habitat for the perfect copper tone loo brush [£25] and smart black and copper accessories from George at Asda. 

Bathroom Copper Effect Rectangular Stand Mirror // Matalan 

£5

home: found this [ sequin baskets ]

home: found this [ sequin baskets ] 

When Southwood Stores have so much amazing homeware it’s easy to find many favourites but these sequin baskets stand out the most.

These beautiful ‘Dassie’ sequin adorned baskets are the perfect way to store away many things and have a incredible lovely piece on show at the same time. 

They come in three different sizes starting from the small basket at £15.95 

home: event [the house fair ]

home: event  [ the house fair ] 

This is an event to have in the diary. Get your tickets now for this big home and interiors event running from 22 – 25 June at Olympia, London

Full of ideas, tips, insider advice, styling inspiration, product information,  interiors exhibitors, interiors to give you ideas for your own home, competitions and more. 

‘The DEFINITIVE EVENT to style your home

A showcase of style and inspiration, packed with products and decorating ideas for creating beautiful and interesting living spaces, which are unique to you and your design style.

Presenting the very best selection of products and service in the market, The HOUSE Fair is a celebration of great interior design, filled with curated rooms and displays, expert and practical advice from leading professionals and interior decorators, talks and demonstrations, as well as over 100 inspiring brands, all hand-picked by House & Garden.’

Tickets available HERE 

The House Fair / Spirit of Summer Fair 

Olympia Grand, Olympia London W14 8UX