home: trend [ botanist ]

Bringing together all the tones of green with every accessory singing about the plant world and all its beauty, the botany trend embraces the delicacy of leaves, stems and fauna, the lushness of the natural world and the fresh feel that plants both real and in image bring to an interior of a room.

There are many stores with fabric prints, wall art and home accessories with leaf print designs, most popular currently are fern, cheese plant and palm leaves.

Head to HM, Southwood Stores, IKEA, Sainburys and many other online and high street stores for great selections of bontany inspired wares. This May, Habitat just brought Henry Holland on board for a collection #henryforhabitat which shouts loudly with leaf prints in textiles and upholstery.

Across stores there are cushions, curtains, chairs, throws, lampshades and ceramics using leaf and botany illustrations, which can be brought together, layer and mix to create a real greenhouse freshness to a room. Cluster pictures of leaves or flower studies to make a gallery style display, mix leaf patterned cushions with plain green tone fabrics mixed inbetween and use glassware and ceramics in various greens as another texture. To break up the greens use oak, walnut or whites to add contrast. Make the impact strong by not using any other vibrant colours.

Most importantly go wild with indoor planting. We love Botany in East London to get your plant fix – with their array of cacti, planting, foliage and more. Keep your eye on special offers on high street garden centre sections of DIY stores for discounts and special offer days – a great way to get big indoor planting at great prices.

Use wall hangers in woods, concretes and metals, and macrame hangers to fill a room with real greenery; make bold statements with big architectural leaf plants in corners of rooms; and cluster varying size cacti on coffee tables or shelves.

1 Sainsburys Botanist Range

2 Sage + Linden Blossom Candle £10 / Sainsburys

3 Duvet Set £24.99 / H&M

4 Visit Botany for plants / Chatsworth Road E5

5 Stockholm Armchair £300 / IKEA

6 Cocos Print £25 / Skandivis

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: found this [ vase ]

With so much nature inspired homeware this season from fern leaf print fabric upholstery and wooden accessories to woodland scenes in wall prints and floral designs on glassware, we couldn’t help but fall in love finding these gorgeous cabbage design vases from the great online store Mia Fleur.

These would look great both single and minimal on a shelf in the sunlight full of tulip stems as well as clustered with colourful wild flowers.

It’s a beautiful white vase at just £15.95 which would be a great gift, treat for yourself or even a beautiful, elegant centre pieces for a wedding table.

home: favourite thing [ light ]

The ‘Marlowe‘ smoked glass and copper ceiling light from Habitat is a beautiful piece of lighting that could work well in a cluster, or stand alone, and would look great with a feature bulb.

Habitat has a few great bulbs to choose from but many stores have huge ranges with great designs including squirrel, coil and spiral.

Designed by Aaron Probyn exclusively for Habitat, it’s an excellent investment at just £60 that will be a modern design statement within the home.

home: event [ midcentury fair ]

Midcentury fans will have these events as a must-go on their calendars.

Midcentury Modern know how to put on an event, collating the best of midcentury traders under one roof a few times a year. Attracting both dealers and enthusiasts kitting out their homes or work places, there is an plethora of furniture and homewares to browse and shop. The standard, quality and price range is great.

The next pop up event is at The Kia Oval Cricket Ground SE11 on Sunday 15th May (full details below)

home: featured [ Typo ]

It is already well established in it’s home country of Australia, but now Typo [ part of cotton:on group ] is dipping it’s toes in the UK.
Typo is full of fun homeware, accessories and stationary, with prints focused on typography – letters, phrases and quotes.
The online shop [ launched this month ] is full of quirky trend led gifts including letter light boxes, an array of pen / plant pots, some great storage and really cool stationary.
Typo is very well priced with a huge selection of products. With bricks and mortar stores planned in the UK it looks like it could be the next big thing – watch out tigerstores.co.uk.

home: trend [ colour therapy ]

Bright colour enthusiast and top blogger Will Taylor of Bright Bazaar wasn’t wrong with his tag line of ‘make you smile style’.

Colour therapy can’t help but make you smile, it’s uplifting, with an ability to invigorate and refresh an interior. Your home will be a happy place with inspiration from this 2016 trend.

Create striking interiors with bold wall paint choices, a range of bright colours clashing in home accessories and ensure every choice of furniture, storage and soft furnishings all sing out loud.

We found about great inspiration from House To Home, using colour psychology from Freshom, and all about the healing power of colours from Colour Therapy Healing .

1. Colour inspiration from the wonderful Bright Bazaar / follow on the blog, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter

2. Wooden storage boxes / Thabto / from £14.95

3. Brighten the bathroom / Next / from £5

4. Potted cactus sets / IKEA / £4.50

5. Rug / Maison Du Monde / £89.99

6. Bookcase / Maison Du Monde / £399.90

7. Ceramic Vases / Habitat / from £20

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!

home: favourite thing [ printable art ]

The power and impact of large scale art in a room is great. Make a statement or bring a strong colour or theme to a room with a huge print. It’s generally a fairly expensive thing to aquire but US online store, Sycamore Street Press, amongst the range of other fab paper goods and homeware, have the super idea of offering downloadable digital PDFs of brilliant photographic prints that can be printed yourself at your local printers to whatever size (up to 48” x 36” – which is huge)

We absolutely love this way of bringing the outdoors in, with their print range of cactus photographs. Fresh natural images taken from the cactus garden in Huntingdon, Pasedena (California) which create a airy feel and evoke the feeling of the outdoors – allowing the natural world inside and are almost window-like when hung. Either frame, stick or use hanging bars for these huge pieces of art.

Brilliant art at only $9 per download from the Sycamore Street Press.

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.

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.

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. ]

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