home: featured [ Bouf ]

If you like quirky and individual pieces in your home then head to Bouf.com. There is a vast selection of products from accessories, soft furnishing, furniture and prints. With the site easy to navigate, you can easily find what you are looking for within any budget.

Launched in 2007, and based in Brixton, South London they seek out the most iconic design led manufacturers around the world and bring them to one site.

‘ BOUF is your curated marketplace offering design-led homeware and gifts with a twist ‘

Our favourites include the wallpapers, lighting and furniture. There is also some great seasonal discounts and sales.

Bouf.com

home: featured [ A Splash Of Colour ]

The gorgeous, modern, cool homewares from A Splash Of Colour will give you endless shopping choices to make your home perfect.

They stock a great range of soft furnishings, furniture, prints, lighting, homewares and candles. The designs are modern, contemporary and quite exquisite. Browse their great inspirational website and treat yourself or shop for amazing gifts.

The quirky designs are very unique. Everything has been considered – furniture shapes create great angles, clock designs are fun and abstract, the colours are candy sweet and crisp, and there’s so much to create unusual accents and features within your home.

home: found this [ blankets ]

We love the nomad trend and it translates so well into blankets, throws, bedding, curtains, cushions and more so well.

We discovered this great brand Bohzaar and think they have a great range of soft furnishings in nomad patterns in a great variety of colours to suit any interior.

The blankets are beautiful and at only £59 are a steal for such a large size

home: made [ rugs ]

We love a fun DIY project with great results. Produce and making your own homeware is satisfying, rewarding, often cheaper than buying the item and also a good way to update something old or plain.

We found some great tutorials at DIY Network for making and designing rugs for your home. There’s a great selection of different projects to achieve varying looks depending on your style or needs.

There’s also a great selection of tutorials at ArchitectureArtDesigns too

Many of the projects use old T-shirts, scraps of wool or fabric, or plain rugs which can be picked up cheaply and many highstreet homeware stores.

home: favourite thing [ bohemian blanket ]

No home can have too many blankets – for their practical warming use or for aesthetic reasons they are always useful. Change the look or colour scheme of a room by throwing over a chair or sofa, add texture and pattern to a bed styling, bring soft furnishing outside and use with garden furniture or thrown over the grass and kick back – either way having a few alternative blankets in store to mix and match or chop and change is handy.

We love the bohemian feel of the High Vibes blanket from Urban Outfitters and it’s only £35. Perfectly on trend and see you through to Autumn/winter home styling too.

home: featured [ Baileys ]

If you are looking for a bit of escapism from city life and like to fill your home with neutral, efortless, utilitarian pieces then you need to head to Baileys. Housed in a converted barn in Herefordshire Mark & Sally Bailey have created a stunning shopping space full of gorgeous homeware from all over the world. There is an abundance of rustic pieces including crates, salvaged furniture and hand crafted soft furnishings, as well as recycled goods. Our favourites include the lighting, apple crate storage and hand woven cushions.

This emporium covers everything you need with furniture, lighting, accessories, kitchenware and hardware all with a neutral colour pallete, allowing customers to easily fit items into their homes. Alongside the shop there is a tearoom, which means you can make a full morning or afternoon visiting Baileys, stop for a cup of tea & cake and then continue shopping.
Visit the online shop at Baileyshome.com or if you can, make a trip to the shop to be wowed.

Store Owners, Store, Herefordshi

Here, you become besotted with recycled and salvaged furniture, spend hours rifling through piles of linens, throws, rugs and towels and are led to believe hanging hooks and pot brushes are covetable items in their own right.

Mark and Sally Bailey, the force behind Baileys Home and Garden, have published three books expounding their design philosophy. We talked to the couple as they were wrapping up their fourth tome.

home: nice price [ blankets ]

If you’re looking for good quality soft furnishings at a great price then head to hm.com. We popped into a store last week and were very impressed with their blankets and throws. With a varied selection of soft cotton and acrylic, and majority coming in under £30 you are sure to find one you love.

Try and get into a selected store to see the full range or alternatively head to hm.com. [ There is also a great 70% off sale currently on ]

home: nice price [ rug ]

To make a big impact in changing a room design, bring in a new rug – which can bring colour, texture and create the feel of a new current trend.

Head to the West Elm sale rug department now to take advantage of huge discounts currently available.

Our favourite pick is the Layla Wool Rug which was £399.00 and is now down to £199.95!

home: trend [ stripes ]

We have seen stripes before in interiors with the monochrome and nautical trends. This time around we take a more subtle approach to this look with narrow stripes on ceramics, texture in wallpapers and structured furniture.

When accessorising a room pick out simple pieces with a minimal feel – block coloured vases and pin stripe ceramics / varying stripes on soft furnishings such as cushions and rugs. The popular colour choice will always be black and white but if you want to introduce other colours keep it relatively neutral with beiges and greys, and even bring metalic tones of gold and bronze.

Bringing stripes onto a wall can be a brave decision, but if you limit it to one wall and use just two colours of similar tone you can create a real focal point, but it doesn’t need to dominate the room. Pale colours like moss green and powder pink work great. If you fancy some wallpaper consider a textured option – a really contemporary way to get stripes into a room [ take a look at grahambrown.com ].

Another idea of how to bring this trend into your home is to use two or three narrow stripes in a hallway or running up stairs. This brings interest to areas which otherwise might be quite plain. Stick to one colour and run them the full length of a wall or stairscase.

When it comes to furniture don’t think you need to go out and and buy heavily striped units or chairs. One statement armchair can really help bring this trend into a living room, although keep the rest of the furniture neutral. Alternatively find pieces that give the illusion of stripes. For example the Hay dining chair [ pic 5 ] with metal frame or a storage unit like the made.com chest of drawers [ pic 9 ] using panels across the front creating a subtle striped pattern.

Guide:
1. Cushion – istome.co.uk [ £25 ]
2. Vase – habitat.co.uk [ £40 ]
3. Set of 2 ceramic pots – thedenandnow.co.uk [ £36.50 ]
4. Marble & wood bookend – westelm.co.uk [ £44 ]
5. Dining chair – futureandfound.com [ £119 ]
6. Tile – rockettstgeorge.co.uk [ £6.80 ]
7. Textured wallpaper – grahambrown.com [ £9 ]
8. Rug – Ikea.com – [ £15 ]
9. Chest of drawers – made.com [ £349 ]

home: featured [ Shedquarters ]

Shedquarters is another great online shop full of contemporary homeware and stationary.
The cohesive collection shows something different to the customer, with strong design led ceramics including their marble espresso cups, vases and gorgeous blankets and throws.
The online shop is beautifully layed out and easy to navigate, so don’t waste any time and take a look.
[ There is also an inspiring blog to keep up to date with ]

Shedquartersonline.co.uk

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