home: favourite thing [ door mat ] 

home: favourite thing [ door mat ] 

Quirky and welcoming but still in contemporary grey with a lovely detail of typography on it – this great door mat from Argos is a super update for a hallway and it’s only £7.99 or on special offer of two for £15. Great to give as a gift! 

Typography is big this year in interiors trends and the italic ‘hello’ is popping up everywhere across highstreet stores – on wall or window decals, prints, cushions and kitchenalia! 

home: featured [ Pentreath + Hall ] 

home: featured [ Pentreath + Hall ] 

Sometimes it’s good not to be minimal, and have the coldness of a monochrome interior. Pentreath + Hall embrace colour, pattern, beautiful design and layering up textures to ensure perfect interior inspiration. 

Tucked away in Rugby Street, Bloomsbury, London, this store is bursting at the seams with homeware, furniture and accessories. Also available online, every department is covered – a great place to buy interiors gifts or treat yourself to a new look for a room. 

Around for almost a decade, the duo behind the retail outlet have an interiors, architecture and artistic background. This has evidently come together perfectly in their great buying choices and curated ranges. 

Visit them online or in store. Currently you can enjoy shopping the Summer sale too. 

home: favourite thing 

home: favourite thing [ vintage cocktail chair ] 

Absolutely loving this beauty of a vintage find – a gorgeous original 1950s cocktail chair from super cool new online homeware store The Joyful Home Company. 

A great addition to your home at just £150 

In great vintage condition as is but if you fancy an alternative colour or pattern, these talented folks also offer an upholstery service. Along side upholstery and vintage pieces, the store also offer a beautiful curated range of other homewares including lighting, prints and cushions.

home: featured [ Mon Pote ]

home: featured [ Mon Pote ]

This little gem of a store in Bristol is full of gorgeous homeware and gifts. Set up by two best friends Mon Pote has a carefullly curated collection of quality items you will fall in love with and enrich your life.

‘Mon Pote loosely translates from French as ‘my mate’ or ‘my friend’. Our hope is that you will always feel as relaxed and welcome in our shop, or browsing our online store, as you do in the homes of your friends’.

Browse the online store for everything from kitchenware and lighting to soft furnishings and prints. Plus they stock an extensive kids collection, jewellery and stationary.

If you are in the Bristol area you must pop along to the shop. Alternatively keep up to date with Mon Pote on their blog and Instagram, and of course get shopping on the website.

Monpote.co.uk

home: featured : [ The Future Kept ]

home: featured [ The Future Kept ]

Husband & Wife team Dean & Jeska Hearne have created an online store full of gorgeous well designed, durable and desirable items for your home. With a strong focus to inspire their customers to think about the items you buy for your home, bringing these independently produced products to the forefront of the collection.

‘We provide quality goods with an honest provenance that we use in our day-to-day lives, items made to ladt that will not fuel the throwaway nature of the modern world, heirlooms of the future. We hope to inspire a curiosity and desire within people to make more sustainable and ethical choices.’

Our favourite pieces include their woven basketsthrows and ceramics. Head to the website, explore and find your perfect item. We assure it will be more then just the one.

thefuturekept.com

home: favourite thing [ vintage Danish armchair ] 

home: favourite thing [ vintage Danish armchair ] 

Add another to list of go-to favourite home interiors shop websites – The Joyful Home Company (just launched!) is a must for carefully it’s curated selection of prints, accessories, wallpapers and their own beautifully reupholstered vintage chairs department. 

Our favourite pick from this exciting new store is this utterly gorgeous, incredibly restored large grey Danish armchair, midcentury in style and perfectly reupholstered to keep its characteristics and charm of the era. 

A must invest at £795 but a worthwhile investment. 

home: featured [ Cup + Cloth ]

home: featured [ Cup + Cloth ]

Cup + Cloth is an online store bringing a carefully chosen collection of products from independant makers and designers from the UK and around the world.

‘We provide a constant evolving range of original products as an antidote to the mass produced. You will find a considered.edit of sml batch goods with timeless qualities to keep + cherish for a lifetime’

The website is split into 4 categories; Made, Sourced, Found and Wall, helping you navigate the site and find the perfect item. In Made you will find UK based designers and makers. Sourced is full of handmade products from global designers. Vintage and unique second hand items is what you will find in Foundwith Wall showcasing contemporary art from the UK.

There is something for everyone at Cup + Cloth with a gorgeous range of products. Our favourites include the african print cushions, Copper & Solder concrete dishes, and glassware.

Cupandcloth.com

home: featured [ India May Home ]

home: featured [ India May Home ]

Blending Moroccan, Skandi and Indian inspired hand crafted homewares, India May Home is full of gorgeous pieces that will bring a ‘laid back lux’ style to your home.

With a natural muted colour palette throughout pick from rugs, furniture, tableware, accessories and more, all hand picked by founder Karen Birchenough, bringing you a curated bohemian collection.

‘An inspirational concept store offering customers the opportunity to buy home decor, kaftans, travel accessories, jewellery, moroccan oils and exotic scented candles that evoke a sense of travel & perfect karma’

We love the soft furnishings with hand block rugs and cushions, as well as gorgeous sheepskin hides.

Head to indiamayhome.co.uk to shop the collection, follow the story and keep up to date on latest new arrivals. You can also follow India May Home on Twitter and Instagram.

home: featured [ Mauds House ]

home: featured [ Mauds House ]

We love finding new independant stores and Mauds House is definitely one to keep an eye on. Launched by Hattie Crook, this lifestyle store based in Yorkshire has a heavy scandinavian feel with a large number of products hand sourced from Denmark. Mauds House also heavily supports UK based illustrators and designers.

We love the simplicity of the website and carefully curated selection of goods, the muted colour palette and gorgeous design. Our favourites include the cushions and ceramics. If you are in the area you must visit the new shop opening end of January.

Keep up to date with Mauds House on Instagram & Twitter

Maudshouse.co.uk

home: featured [ Bohemia ]

home: featured [ Bohemia ]

Founded by Jenny Lockton in 2006 Scottish based store Bohemia is a haven for homewares and goods uniquely designed in-house and handcrafted in partnership with artisans from around the world. With boho influences on trend this year [ featured on the blog a couple of weeks ago ] there is no better time to explore this great shop.

‘ Bohemia was established to build relationships with artisan producers and through collaborations help to support meaningful employment and ensure the survival of awe-inspiring traditional crafts’

Bohemia is full of colour and inspiration with the obvious strong influence of Morocco and India running throughout their products. Head to the blankets and rugs with gorgeous pattern and vibrancy, or browse the kitchenware with palm leaf brushes and hand embossed enamel bowls.

As well as the online shop Bohemia has a flagship store in Edinburgh. It’s a definate destination if you love authentic gifts and homeware with a contemporary edge.

Keep up to date with Bohemia on Instagram and Twitter.

Bohemiadesign.co.uk