1. OKA 2. Waveney Rush 3. Nick Smyth 4. White Co 5. Lombok
No one I know doesn’t have storage issues. Whether you live in a sweet studio or a marvelous mansion, storage is always at a premium. One simple solution for magazines and newspapers are baskets, and I’ve rounded up 5 stylish solutions to share with you.
Which is your favourite?
Today’s Room of the Week Feature focuses on this casual yet chic hallway. This is not a difficult look to achieve, and the visually appealing palette and layout would look as good in a cottage by the seaside as a country retreat.
What does your hallway look like?
I love this home office recently featured in the NY Times. The colours! The fabrics! The furniture! Delightful…
How do you have your home office?
When I’m styling a completed interior design project, laying the table is a an absolute must-do. There are so many ways to lay a table, especially depending on the room’s scheme and the occasion. When laying the table at home, even for an informal kitchen supper, I always like to make sure I have put a little thought into it so that my guests can feel relaxed and enjoy their meal.
There’s often some confusion on how to lay a table, so I wanted to share a few ideas and give you a visual guideline which might be helpful.
{via HouseofFifty}
I love the idea of the above placement, which literally shows you where to place your utensils.
I also found the below, which gives a visual layout for place settings.
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Here are 4 ways for a dreamy table setting, all that I’d love to be dining at…
1. Polo Ralph Lauren 2. TW Design Project 3. Style Me Pretty 4. Luxe Finds
Any other ideas on a theme for a table setting?
In the theme of Tuesday’s post, I’ve been thinking of other ways to up-cycle for the home. Here are 5 cool ideas to recycle pallets. You can find them all over the place, from freecycle, skips, working warehouses, even sometimes the edge of the road (although be careful if you are that hardy!)
1. Why not use palettes instead of a futon base for your bedroom. To add to the rustic look, tie in muted colours and even use an old fruit crate as your bedside table. {via chic deco}
2. Hang a palette on the wall, and you have a nifty plate rack. {via tumblr}
3. Create a garden planter, this is ideal for a balcony garden! {via Craft}
4. A slick of paint and some nails, plus a little bit of imagination transforms old bits of junk wood into a contemporary kitchen island unit. This will save lots of pennies that you can spend on cool chairs and fun lighting pendants to complete the look. {via Apartment Theraypy}
5. For a commercial space, you could commission Most Architecture, a Dutch architectural practice, to design a recycled interior for your office.
If this is all too much hassle, and you want the look but are not DIY friendly (although to be honest, these are really easy except no. 5), then Made.com does a fun coffee table made under the same principle.
I know you are all extremely creative and fun, what would you make or have as a palette feature?
I just love parquet flooring, particularly in herringbone. It whispers at taste and elegance.
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It got me thinking on all the different types of configurations of wooden flooring, and in fact all the different kinds of wood and finishes you can have. There are a lot of great companies that you can commission for a wooden floor, but I wondered who else was doing something a bit different out there.
After doing some research, I wanted to share this very cool flooring company that I’ve found. Arctic Plank are an Icelandic company that are based in New York, and they are a fine example of how you can up-cycle without compromising on style.
The clever clogs at Arctic Plank use wooden shipping pallets instead of culled trees, and work with the short lengths of wood in herringbone and parquet to create unique floors.
Typically, wooden shipping pallets are a low end commodity, with the pallets perhaps being re-used commercially a few times before being scrapped or used as firewood.
Arctic Plank turns what is usually considered as junk wood into statement designer finished flooring. The variety and character the wood acquires during its days as a hard working shipping material gives each installation a unique feel, and Arctic Plank’s work of up-cycling shows us that actually it’s just our perspective that restricts or frees us in our aesthetic choices.
The hard wearing nature of the shipping wood added with out door finishes means that you could use this application indoor or outdoor.
Where would you have this? I’m adding this to my wish list for my warehouse apartment…
{via LiveBreatheDecor}
I love blue. If done well, the classic blue and white combination is crisp, elegant and not at all ‘beach house’.
I’m pretty sure this is a Ralph Lauren ‘Bel Air Apartment Sofa’…
Most of all, I love that this home owner has colour coordinated the books on the shelves, giving warmth and depth plus a hint of fun to the room.
What is your favourite colour?
One of the design projects I’m currently running is for a very cool guy. Although he’s got a very serious job, he is actually a creative at heart and the brief for his pad is to create a cool space that he can let his creativity flourish. I thought I’d share with you a few images that I’m working with as inspiration for his mood boards.
I’m swooning over the desk, above left (via Splendid Willow) and the neutral colour palette is masculine without being too ‘bachelor pad-ish’.
Have you got any ideas that can incorporate into our schemes?
I know it’s been done, done done. But. I still love hanging barn doors. I’ve put together my top 5 Inspirations for Hanging Doors.
1. A splash of bright colour and architectural hardware makes this grown up and contemporary.
2. Here are 2 different ways to achieve a rustic chic look. I love this clever pantry idea, can I have one please?!
3. A neutral palette works well to create a grown up feel to both room dividers.
4. The space saving doors on the left create a statement in their monochromatic way, and this clever design detail on the right creates an additional layer of art to a feature wall.
5. Although hanging doors most often give a room an architectural feel, this pretty treatment puts to clever use a hanging door between a bedroom and dressing room.
Do you have a door that you’d like to convert?
I wanted to share with you this great DIY post, by Roost blogger Marissa Waddell.
If like me, you have over-indulged over the festive period (and why not, I say!), then I’m sure the wallet is receipt heavy and cash light. With this in mind, I wanted to share this great article that shows you h0w to create eye catching bedside drawers at a fraction of the price of originals.
If you are looking to smarten up your master bedroom and/or looking for a fun project to while away those non-drinking January hours, Marissa shows you step by step how to create these smart drawers, and I recommend you check out her blog.
Happy DIY-ing!
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