home: featured [ Marks & Spencer ]

Head to the highstreet for Marks and Spencer‘s new-in pieces. Choose from Scandi, industrial and midcentury style pieces at great prices.

They cover so many trends plus you can rely on the quality and customer services.

Seek out their great lighting, clocks and bedding.

home: event [ Midcentury Modern ]

Save a date for the next Midcentury Modern show in East Dulwich, London. Find vintage furniture, lighting and accessories all under one roof. These shows are a must visit, with a huge selection of American, Scandinavian and British design.

‘The Midcentury Modern Show at Dulwich College is design heaven for me’ Orla Kiely

Sunday 19th March

10am – 4pm

Dulwich College

Se21 7LD

Tickets available from modernshows.com

home: featured [ Design Vintage ]

Based in Sussex this online homeware store is run by Lisa Brass and combines a gorgeous mix of vintage and industrial design with Scandinavian influences.

Browse through the collections of furniture, lighting, accessories and soft furnishings, as well as gifts and kids items. Our favourites include the large range of industrial units and shelving, and their soft furnishings including beautiful rugs and cushions.

As well as the online store Design Vintage has two showrooms, in Brighton and Chichester, so make sure to pop by and see the range if you’re in the area.

Keep up to date with Design Vintage by following them on Instagram and Twitter. And for inspiration and ideas head to their blog.

designvintage.co.uk

home: event [ antiques + vintage fair ]

To bring interest and a bit of a unique edge to your interiors, it’s great to browse antique fairs and vintage markets for furniture, ceramics, lighting and accessories.

With over 300 stalls under one roof the Alexandra Palace Antiques and Vintage fair attracts people from across London and the surrounding area because of its wealth of choice and quality in shopping.

With Pop Up Vintage Fairs also now being a part of the event there’s even more stall holders offering midcentury, retro and vintage goods – so on-trend and what’s better than modern copies – the originals!

The next event is Sunday February 12th and then three more times spread across the year. Parking is free and entry is £6 but there’s often ways to get 2-for-1 entry, especially if you follow Pop Up Vintage Fairs on Facebook.

home: favourite thing [ drinks cabinet ]

There maybe sales and discounts but we think the best way to spend Christmas money is to invest in a beautiful piece of furniture.

This midcentury style drinks bar cabinet from West Elm is made from eucalyptus wood and walnut veneer, has ample storage space and is just a beautiful piece of design.

Invest and order now for arrival in March.

£999

home: made [ crate shelving ]

Adaptable for any space, size or colour, we love this tutorial we found, for making cool shelving from old vintage wooden crates.

Wooden crates can be found at vintage fairs, eBay, carboot sales and other vintage selling outlets plus there is now ‘new’ versions that can be bought in plain wood.

Then you’ll need a drill, screws, wood glue and your choice of stain, varnish or paint.

Nifty tutorial HERE

home: featured [ A Room In My House ]

This quirky store is full of in-house designed goods in their online store at http://www.aroominmyhouse.com but it’s their prints department that we are focusing on this week for great prints for your walls or to make lovely gifts! From architectural brutalist influenced photography to typography prints and alphabet designs, there’s a lovely range with prices from £8.

Visit the main shop this Friday and get 25% off with code BLACK25 or next Monday with code CYBER25.

Link through from there webshop, if vintage and handmade is your thing, straight through to their Etsy shop for retro homeware, gifts and more.

Homeware is a great idea for Christmas gifts as usable present as well as getting something unique!

home: trend [ bohemian ]

The boho trend in interiors is broad ; with colour and styles – but the layering and the type of fabrics or patterns is always key. Look for deep colour palette in weaves and wall hangings, hand crafted woods, worn leather, kilim and ikat patterns, lace, crochet and paisley.

It should be an effortless look that evolves and can be built on, with it benefiting from nik naks, flea market finds, homeware from world travel, heirlooms and collectables.

For online highstreet shopping try Urban Outfitters and La Redoute for a huge range of soft furnishings, cushions, throws, hangings, dishes and more that really fit this trend.

1 Faux fur rug / The Rug House £11.95

2 Gold planter / La Redoute £49

3 Afaw Rug / La Redoute from £59

4 Sea Grass Basket / Peastyle from £20

5 Vintage Rug / BohemianDesign £450

6 Tapestry Fabric / Urban Outfitters £35

7 Chair / IKEA £40

8 Kilim Cushion / Urban Outfitters £38

9 Planter / Urban Outfitters £15

(Head to LaRedoute now and take advantage of big discounts with code XMAS at the checkout)

home: trend [ modern vintage ]

This Autumn see the revival of a trend which never really goes away in many homes. Modern vintage does what it says, combining old styles and past trends with modern interpretations. Vintage styles have always inspired us in the present, whether it’s mid-century furniture, 70’s glam, or 80’s modernism you can take elements and work with them in any room.

There are no rules to creating this trend, infact it’s entirely up to you what feel you would like to bring. Although when introducing vintage pieces into a room make sure you you don’t over clutter or over exhaust the look. Mix different items from different decades to create an eclectic look, but try and bring it all together with a base colour [white is always a good place to start ].

Let the furniture and soft furnishings bring the colour

The rich 70’s tones of orange, moss green, burgandy, and teal will be perfect for this time of year. Darker woods like walnut and mango will ground the room and give it more interest. Once you have some key pieces of furniture, or a statement light then start bringing in some modern touches with pattern and print on soft furnishings and art work.

If you are looking to make a statement why not go retro with a brick effect wallpaper. Popularity has grown massively for wall or garden effect wallpapers and some are even textured to give a more realistic appearance. And don’t worry, you are not trying to kid anybody, they just look great and create a fab backdrop to a room. Check out Dunelm, Henderson Interiors and I Love Wallpaper

Although having original pieces from decades past is ideal [ sometimes it can be time consuming hunting them out and finding the right thing ], there is some great reproduction furniture available online now. Check out rockettstgeorge.co.uk, roseandgrey.co.uk and grahamandgreen.co.uk

Guide:

1.Bedside table – rockettstgeorge.co.uk [ £165 ]

2. Robin Day chair – johnlewis.com [ £233.75 ]

3. Ceiling light – habitat.co.uk [ £28 ]

4. Telephone – bloomsburystore.com [ £34.95 ]

5. Nest of tables – roseandgrey.co.uk [ £325 ]

6. Storage unit – made.com [ £199 ]

home: made [ plate wall ]

Think outside the box when it comes to wanting art or pictures on your walls. The design and imagery that are on plates are often works of art and hanging them can create a modern, unique decorative display on a wall.

Plate displays, instead of traditional picture hanging, can give many different looks and follow different trends.

Using floral or vintage style plates can give a country chic look, homely and colourful, with mixing up colours and patterns to look eclectic and retro.

For minimal and monochrome trends try typography based designs or geometric patterned plates.

Or when an interior is all about a specific colour then it’s all about matching that colour; and different patterns, designs and illustrations can look great if they are all in the same colour or a spectrum of shades of the same colour.

Anthropologie is a great place to head for incredible designs of plates and our favourite for a minimal monochrome look we love the Arne Jacobsen Design Letters range of plates that are available across the highstreet and internet including Selfridges and Amara

1 Design Letters Plate from £20

2 Set of Wedgewood Plates £75

3 Illustrative plates from Anthropologie

4 Go vintage with Ridgeway Homemaker (search EBay, Etsy + ChinaSearch )

And for a discreet, secure way to hang your plate art use the handy invisible wall hangers available in many shops including hobby craft.

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