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home: trend [ blush hues ] 

home: trend [ blush hues ] 

Bring serenity and a beautiful calm to your interiors with blush hues. The pink palette of this trend is a dreamy mix of shades of pink with complimentary colour additions of white, cream and beige. These hues sit well with light woods or white furniture, keeping accessories in copper, a little monochrome and of course pink to a minimal to ensure the interior is minimal and clean.

Create a Spring feel for a lounge or bedroom with this beautiful trend,  covering windows with long billowing pale pink curtains, which could look great layered up with lace nets, scatter cushions in a variety of pale pinks with the odd one with subtle pattern and opt for a couple of pink tones for the walls. 
 

[ Farrow & Ball ] Calamine / Nancys Blushes / Cinderose

Farrow & Ball / paint from £39.50  

1 pink ombré print / from £12 / Junique 

2 Rafi desk lamp / £25 / Habitat 

3 cotton curtains / from £60 / John Lewis 

4 Muuto vase / £75 / Ambient Direct 

5 Hygeia head bust / £84 / Mia Fleur 

home: trend [ 1980s ]

home: trend [ 1980s ]

Let’s step back in time and indulge ourselves in the ’80s, a decade of bold colour and print.

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Perspex plays a major role, with neon furniture including chairs and tables. Add to this accessories such as light fittings, trays and wall hooks.
If the clashing colours aren’t for you, opt for something in clear plastic or white and get the colour and bold print from soft furnishings, like cushions and throws. [ The prints can be as crazy as you like, as can the colours. ]
This trend is fun and shouldn’t be taken too seriously, ideal for a second living space or spare bedroom if it’s too much in a main room.
Alternatively get the look with one or two key pieces of furniture or a few accessories, and work with paint to inject a strong colour onto the walls.

Guide:
1. Coat hooks – blockdesign.co.uk [ £14 ]
2. Tea towel set – futureandfound.com [ £15 ]
3. Acrylic chair – habitat.co.uk [ £175 ]
4. Plate – darkroomlondon.com [ £80 ]
5. Wall light – do-shop.com [ £250 ]
6. Chair – Ikea.com [ £40 ]
7. Pattern inspiration
8. Cushion – futureandfound.com [ £79 ]

home: nice price [ Sommar 2016 ]

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home: nice price [ Sommar 2016 ]

Ikea have done it again, creating an attractive collection of soft furnishings, tableware and glassware. The Sommar collection is promoted as an outdoor range, ready for garden parties, but there are some great pieces including striped cushions, royal blue tableware, rugs and printed trays which you can use indoors now [ starting from £1.50 ].

Ticking the box for previous trend ‘Fresh Nautical‘ there are elements to take from the collection to fit this look for Spring, and we love it.

Limited stock available online, head to ikea.com to find your nearest store and full collection.

home: trend [ Words & Pictures ] 

home: trend [ Words & Pictures ]  

We encouraged, we embraced and we excitedly bought the latest in technology. We made our lives easier with computers and emails, no longer needed seperate devices for photography, work, writing and tv (now all in the palm of our hand). We created minimal homes with hidden features and buttons to evolve and improve our habitat. 

Now we remember the joy of hand writing, handling printed matter, the emotion of an actual photograph in the hand, or on the wall, and the memory it evokes. We look to books and script, appreciating the written form and the ink from real letterpress printing. 

Bring this emotion and tactile quality back into the home with words and pictures. Use initials, words, quotes and poetry to demonstrate the household characters, lifestyle and personalise your home. In prints on the wall, home accessories, fabric design and even use greys and inky blues synonymous with print and type as the colour palette. 

   

1 Using initials in a wall display / where fonts become art 

2 Letter Ornament / George at Asda £10 

3 Create a gallery wall of artistic, eclectic, quirky family photography. Print your photos with Photobox 

4 Visit a professional photographer* for a family photo shoot. Make your family into a piece of photographic art [ photo  credit www.kristendukephotography.com ] 

5 DIY typography cork board using paint and stencils 

6 Printed typographic fabric / Green Olive

7 Farrow & Ball No 253 Drawing Room Blue / from £39.50 

8 Superize a letter for a strong, bold statement look / contact a local carpenter for wood-cutting quotes and then finish and paint yourself 

9 Words make pictures in this 2012 film poster for Words starting Bradley Cooper / £8.99 Amazon 

*for great modern photography, we love RosewarneCox Photography based in Buckinghamshire, UK 

home: made [ gold projects ] 

home: made [ gold projects ]  

With gold being one of this season’s on-trend colours, how about four easy, home projects to bring a little of this uplifting colour into your home. 

Dulux have come up with these great, simple DIYs. Produce either a gold enhanced table, tray, plant pot or frame! 

Plus if you’re feeling extra creative the table and tray ideas can be taken even further – design more elaborate patterns (go geometric or stripy) or add in an additional complimentary colour like lemon, copper or grey. 
  

home: nice price [ pineapple ] 

home: nice price [ pineapple candle ] 

Design is loving pineapples right now. They feature in pattern, fabric, accessories, even jewellery. 

We love this H&M gold (on trend!) pineapple that contains a candle. So once you burn the candle, you have a great little storage pot for trinkets. 

Only £9.99 

Have a look round the rest of the H&M Tropical Appeal trend collection to see their other pineapple pieces as well as homewares featuring palm trees, monkeys and bananas! 

For more pineapple appreciation head to interiors and homeware brand SS Thomas who have pineapple candle sticks, fruit bowls, tumblers and glasses!  

  
  

  

home: trends [ louche seventies ] 

home: trends [ louche seventies ] 

The louche 1970s trend pushs the boundaries of taste, with style and design ideas that are lavish, ostentatious and brave. 

The hedonistic vibe oozes from the styling choices including crushed velvet, gold, rich colour tones and bold patterns. 

It is over the top and glamorous. Metals and glass are favoured for furniture with velvets, silks and heavy weight tapestry in upholstery. Be generous with accessories, multiple vases, candle sticks, cushions, throws and show-piece lighting to make a statement.

1 Muuto Connect Sofa £2790.00

2 Michagan Swivel Armchair £379.99 

3 Colour palette 

4 Silver Leaf Vases £29.95 

5 Atoma Side Table £74.00

6 Ruskin Peacock Cushion £37.50

7 Smoke Nadine Cluster Light £195.00

home: trend [ Fresh Nautical ]

home: trend [ Fresh Nautical ]
The Nautical trend is back, but this time with a more simple feel. It’s less about marine animals, rope features and bunting, and focuses on stripes [ of varying width ] and subtle hints to the sea through ceramics and soft furnishings.
This trend shouldn’t make your room look themed. Cushions are a great place to start – mix and match different prints, or maybe place a searchlight inspired light in the corner of a room to get the look .
Colours to think about are Blue, Red, White and Grey, and fabrics are very utilitarian [ Linens and Wools ].

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Guide:
1. Bowl – Thomas Paul at magpieline.com [ £27 ]
2. Cushion cover – hm.com [ £3.99 ]
3. Rug – Ikea.com [ £15 ]
4. Light – made.com [ £129 ]
5. Blanket – labourandwait.co.uk [ £220 ]
6. Pendant shade – johnlewis.com [ £45 ]
7. Cushion – minimoderns.co.uk [ £35 ]
8. Wallpaper – Marimekko at johnlewis.com [ £49.95 ]