From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary with Statement Lighting

Don’t we all want a statement home? Interiors speak volumes about our characters. Too often its easy to get trapped by what fashion dictates and and the expected. Lifting a room from the ordinary to the extraordinary takes boldness and can be made to happen in a variety of ways.

At this time of year with friends coming to our homes its a perfect time to get a shot of humour into our space. I can’t think of anything better than this bulb bearing monkey to bring a bit of light to a dark corner.

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Styling your Dartmouth Flower Urns

Pedestal vases were inspired by the 30s to the 50s ceramics designs of the international household name, high society florist, Constance Spry. The most popular designs were copied and reproduced in the 50s for the thousands of housewives who read her books. To style an interior treat as a stand alone gorgeous sculptural statement piece, or fill with grasses, flowers, trails and twiggery.

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How to style your home using Sylvac Urns

This Gorgeous voluptuous loop handled mantle urn is a stylists dream. With so many ways to style it up who wouldn't want to fill it with twiggery and flowers or keep it simple with a moss cushion. 

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How to Style Your Interior With Plants

We all want our home to look wonderful and project our personality without making any costly mistakes. As an interior stylist working on magazines and in interior design, I believe everyone has their own unique style, but pin pointing it can be a tricky one with so many visual influences and different avenues to tempt you. Just now plants are having a moment, we all love a bit of greenery in our home. Firm up your style identity with a few simple styling tricks to set you on the right track when you are working with plants. 

House plants are slow growing and are in danger of making a room appear static and repetitious. Ring the changes, breath new life into a space by using plants as props and showing off your chosen hero object at its best. The styling hero can be anything that takes your fancy, I dip into my shop where I stock vintage ceramics, vases, vessels and figures.

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Styling with Plants to Bring Life to Your Room

Plants bring life to a room with texture and colour they are living, breathing, changing over time. 

Keep your interior styling interesting by changing groupings and moving your plant collection around. Let the freshest and healthiest shine at the front and the ones in need of a rest out of the limelight. 

Choose planters to suit your styling, I have an ever changing selection ready to ring the changes when curated groups need to be refreshed. Use your plants to style a new still life, combine them with books and things you love. Revive styled groupings and keep fresh and interesting by bringing in specimen flowers and leaves.

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Kokedama Moss Ball Plants: Space saving plants

Pressed to find pace for plants in your home? Get creative, make Kokedama, moss wrapping whatever plants take your fancy, herbs for the kitchen, ferns in the bathroom, spring bulbs, the choice is infinite. Suspend your moss ball plants, over the table or in a corner to create a hanging wonderland.

Making is my escape, even better when it’s something for my home. Kokedama is my guilty flight of fantasy, for me it's often about bringing the outside indoors. Flexing the creative muscle, the best tonic when I’m feeling jaded.

My kind of fun, getting in the flow, how do you recharge your batteries?

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Pantone Green with Pink: How to Work Contemporary with Vintage

A ladder of fresh green fern. Yes please, fresh lively pantone green with pink. What kind of pink? Rose, gold, plaster, copper, combine with lustre, splash with the swoosh of a brush. Styling interiors there’s colour in my blood pumping though my veins, combine colours how does it make you feel?

In the world of interiors and styling colour fashions come and go, how wonderful when a passion collides with the outside world. Pink splatter lustreware yes please! Colour referencing can give vintage and antique a contemporary edge. I always loved my grandfathers collection of Sunderland bowls lined up along his mirrored dresser. The severity of the graphic black steel engraved type against the anarchic abandonment of the splatter and swish of pink.

Kids in tow, oggling Sunderland bowls like his through the window of a bijou Georgian Hexham antique shop, thinking when will I ever have one and when I do, might it get destroyed? Recently I found this vintage mug, I don’t know where, I know nothing about it, I have no idea how old it is, not very. The utility of the shape and the pink lustre eases my need for those bowls. With the pink and green it's spot on for an eclectic contemporary interior.

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Look No Further for Affordable Design Icons: Design icons, something to aspire to, often out of reach for the ordinary person

Design icons, something to aspire to, often out of reach for the ordinary person. Good news! Not so with antique stoneware bottles. Sometime domestic ceramics, hardwearing, functional, they were the ultimate peoples product, now they come with their own unique history, I am a big fan.

Bottles like these have always featured in my life. As a child we dug them out of the pond in the spiny, the collection was organic, it grew then shrank, given away when moving on, new ones turning up, to start the cycle again.

The range of whites, like wines, describe with carefully picked words, mellow, creamy, blue, grey, mineral, earthy, stone, muddy, heritage. How do you describe your white?

Easy on the eye with simple utilitarian good looks, lyrical shapes, a curved shoulder, timeless classics they sit happily in both contemporary and classic interiors.

Why not take a minute to hop on over to the shop and take a look at the contemporary vintage ceramic collection on offer.

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Spring Flower Living Wall: Kokedama Inspiration

Can't wait to get out and see what's growing in the garden but feeling a bit cold? Bring outside into the house with moss wrapped bulbs. When I'm styling I'm always trying new ways to bring life, colour and texture to the home.  These moss wrapped hanging Kokedama bulbs are great to bring a fresh twist.  Suspend them to  make a stunning interior living wall, move them around to create a  lush planty corner. Everyday beauty, mixing plants with vintage crockery and contemporary ideas. 

Lots of vintage contemporary ceramic finds for your home over at the shop, take a look. Happy hunting!

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