home: made [ lanterns ]

It’s not just the larger items of furniture for the garden to think about as the warmer weather arrives but the little accessories too.

For lighting in the garden it’s good to think about solar or battery powered options to avoid the need to get electricity outside although whilst renovating a house it’s always good to plan ahead and get outdoor sockets fitted.

For use with battery powered lights or candles we love these pretty home made tin can lantern lights. Fairly simple to make with tools including a hammer and nails or bradle or similar.

We found this simple tuturial on Inhabitat.com that step by step guides you through the make. It also mentions a useful tip to freeze your tin cans before using to help avoid denting and for ease of punching the design out.

Designs can be pattern-based, outlines of butterflies or birds or you could even do letters and spell out a name or phrase. These would be great at an outdoor wedding with the names of the bride and groom or simply ‘love’ or ‘happiness’.

Punch design pattern templates to follow if you’re not confident with freehand can be drawn on first and you can also download and print patterns to follow.

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: featured [ Room 356 ]

Founded by mother and daughter team Cassie and Bev, Room 356 offers a selection of unique homeware, lighting, accessories and stationary.
The simple coherent collection of well designed items have been selected to enhance and compliment your home.

‘The ‘Name’ is where it all began when we opened our lifestyle store in October 2014: 356 being the number of the address of our retail property. The dream was to create an online store and retail space with a special and unique identity. We wanted to offer you the ultimate shopping experience, and to make each and everyone of you feel valued. As a Room 356 customer you really are at the heart and soul of our business. The space in our store has been thoughtfully laid out and each of our collections carefully selected with you in mind.’

We love the lighting, a vast selection of table lamps, pendants and bulbs, well worth a look.

Head to room356.co.uk or visit the store in Bolton

356 Chorley Old Road, Bolton, BL1 6AG

Opening Hours:
Monday | Tuesday | Friday | Saturday 10-5pm
Wednesday | Thursday 10-6pm

home: found this [ polygon light ]

If your looking for a statement light then look no further than these iron pendant lights [ £89 each ] from frenchbedroomcompany.co.uk.

We love the shape and design of these lights, and they would look great in a monochrome room with white walls.
Alternatively clash styles in a living room with mid-century furniture.

home: featured [ Hutsly ]

This online store is an immense treasure trove of shopping for indoors and outdoors, everything from soft furnishings to ceramics, furniture to mirrors.

Hutsly covers so many trends and styles with good pricing and a great sale department.

Keys finds include black glass pendant light, rocking chair, wire lamp shade and nine arm candle holder.

home: event [ Clerkenwell Design Week ]

Back for it’s seventh year, Clerkenwell Design Week runs over three days and is full of exibitions, workshops and talks. See some of the best furniture, lighting and product design from the UK and globally.

‘Clerkenwell is home to more creative businesses and architects per square mile than anywhere else on the planet, making it truly one of the most important design hubs in the world. To celebrate this rich and diverse community, Clerkenwell Design Week has created a showcase of leading UK and international brands and companies presented in a series of showroom events, exhibitions and special installations that take place across the area.’

Tickets are free – register online for access to all the events.

[ 24th – 26th May 2016 ]

www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com

home: made [ feather light ]

We’ve had the cloud light, and now we’ve come across the feather light tutorial from the inventive folks at Crafts on Facebook.

This simple but very clever ‘make’ using papermache, a balloon, glue and some paper results in a oh-so-pretty feather ball light for your home.

You’ll need a little time for the papermache layers and drying time but the feather making is quick and straight forward for an effective result.

Ensure using a safety bulb that doesn’t heat up when used or instead fill with fairy lights. Even without the light element it’s a super pretty room accessory!

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: found this [ lantern ]

Sometimes there is nothing better than an evening by candlelight, whether it’s indoors or out. With these stunning brass lanterns from Anthropologie you can do just that. Perfect for a living room – in a corner clustered with other candles, or as a centre piece on a dining table. Take them outdoors to create atmosphere and charm in your garden.

This online exclusive is available in four sizes [ £12 – £98 ]
www.anthropologie.com

home: nice price [ light shade ]

Subtle and elegant, and at £29 this beautiful mouth blown glass lamp shade is a steal from Made.com.

We love it’s midcentury influence and the coloured glass tone is perfect.

It’s smooth on the outside, but with a rippled effect on the inside it creates a lovely light effect.

This shade would look great in a reading corner or clustered with a few of the same colour, or similar styles but different colours, from the range.

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