What a find!

July 30, 2020March 3, 2022

Five Instagram Emporiums to Shop Vintage Homewares

Every now and then we get the vintage-buying-bug. But it was during lockdown that we found ourselves with an itch we couldn’t scratch. Like many interior nuts out there, we missed interior shows, flea markets and vintage yards. So off we went, on a search to find lockdown loot to fill the void and what did we find? Instagram pages dedicated to bringing you gorgeous vintage finds and one-off pieces to the home! Here are our top five Instagram profiles to shop incredible vintage wares right now…

October 17, 2018November 17, 2019

British Heart Foundation Makeover Challenge

There are amazing charities out there, we all know that. But the British Heart Foundation is certainly one that is, and pardon the pun, close to our hearts. We’ll come to exactly why later. For starters though, we got approached by the British Heart Foundation several months back about a really exciting project which we…

January 10, 2018May 23, 2018

A Chair Affair 2: An Upholstery Story With A Happy Ending

It’s mad to think that it was nearly four years ago that we discovered our little wooden chair – read the full story here – and we’re so excited to announce that it’s finally had a makeover! It was the first piece we purchased together for a mere £10 at a charity shop in Tooting…

August 17, 2017September 11, 2017

Three New Launches You Need to Know About for August

Well isn’t the weather a bit dreary? It’s supposed to be August, but we feel like the umbrellas have been out more than ever this year. As we also opted for a Staycation (read: Glastonbury), we kind of feel like we’ve been cheated out of the good stuff. However, it’s given us a little bit…

January 10, 2017April 17, 2017

Three New Launches You Need To Know About for January

Tube strikes? No thank you. Rainy weather? I’d rather not. Spent your whole January wage in two weeks? Help me, I’m poor. If you’re anything like us then these things will ring true. Well let’s put those January blues at bay with a few things that have launched this month. You may have to wait…

January 5, 2017April 2, 2017

It’s Good to be a Sissy, Boy…

On one of our recent trips to Bruges, as well as canal walks and drinking our fair share of beer, we of course had some retail therapy and one of the places we came across is Sissy Boy.

November 28, 2016April 17, 2017

Creating a Botanical Corner with Cox & Cox

As we’ve recently just moved we’re still making additions here and there to our bedroom. Everyone wants a little haven to escape to and we’ve got plenty of white walls and little nooks to play with. We’ve decided to tackle one little corner of the room and create a botanical spot to display our nik-naks…

November 15, 2016April 2, 2017

Meet the Designers Stitching the Mould with Contemporary Embroidery

One of the most beautiful techniques and uses of storytelling in textiles, embroidery has been used for centuries. From decorative tapestries and throws, through to cushions and artwork, we explore the contemporary designers picking up a needle and thread to tell their stories through the medium of embroidery…

November 10, 2016January 9, 2017

Three New Launches You Need To Know About for November

The winter nights are drawing in so how about these brand new launches in the world of interiors to bring a little bit of design flair to the home.

July 13, 2016July 10, 2016

Elle Decor’s 20 Most Mispronounced Words

Unless you swallowed a dictionary, as a design novice, it’s pretty hard to know your Chaise Lounges from Feng Shui. What’s even worse is that these words aren’t always the easiest to pronounce. Simple options you could do to expand your mind is to do crosswords, play Scrabble or watch Countdown. However, we’ve got great…

July 5, 2016October 30, 2016

Three New Launches You Need To Know About

As per usual, the Great British Summer is letting us down… So it’s high time we tried to beat the blues with some injections of colour from around the interiors world. You know us, ear to the ground and all that, so we’ve put a little list together of the brightest and boldest that are…

June 7, 2016October 30, 2016

Take a Leaf Out of this Book

We’re a sucker for stationery, as many of us are. So when David came across this tropical notebook from Urban Outfitters, he just couldn’t resist. Stationery porn. Just look at it, flirting with you. It’s a collaboration with Ooh Deer x Urban Outfitters which is why it is damn fine. They also have some very…

June 2, 2016May 27, 2016

We’ve got a Big Venus in the Bedroom…

Over a year ago we were having a big old moan about our boring white bedroom walls. As a reminder, this is what they looked like… Boring right! A year later and we couldn’t take it a minute more and so during a trip to the Botticelli Reimagined exhibition at the V&A, we spotted an…

November 18, 2015April 24, 2016

The Lady in the Corner

You would have noticed that we’ve been slowly updating our bedroom. For a while the walls have been the biggest problem, with large blank white spaces making it look sparse and not cosy enough. We’re focusing on the walls bit by bit so following our contemporary Etsy find it’s time to inject some period drama…

October 7, 2015December 12, 2015

We’ve Been Framed!

When a Whatsapp message came through from a friend recently with this image we just couldn’t believe our eyes. This is an engagement card spotted from JacobyDesign on Etsy and it scarily looks a little like us. Yes, it may be called “Hipster Gay Wedding Card” but lets just bypass the hipster aspect of it……