Tuesday, 2 December 2014

> Little Star cushions

Introducing our new "Little Star" cushions measuring a sweet and petite 30cm. A little white star sits on a sugar coated shade of almond pink and blue and features 'star' worded in several European languages. These super cute cushions are the perfect cosy accessories for your little one to cuddle up to. 

Exquisitely printed onto soft 100% cotton Panama they come with a polyester fibre pad and zip fastening. Adding a modern cool addition to our range of wallpapers, wall stickers and clocks, they are the smaller addition to our 'Stellar' range of cushions.

Little star will be available in two weeks time.



Monday, 17 November 2014

> Monday Mood Board - flamingos


I have a bit of an obsession with flamingos... all those clashing shades of pink and red make my heart sing! They are as appealing to children as they are to adults and can oomph up a room in a trice.  Add a couple of cushions to a tired sofa and stand back to see an instant lift. Paint a walls in F&B's Down Pipe and pop a beautiful lamp against it for a dramatic and dazzling zing. Careful touches of pink, rather than saturation will get your interior noticed. 

As we prepare to launch our "Pretty Flamingo" furniture and cushions, I have popped some of my favourite flamingo inspired images together. Here's how to give a gloomy wintery room (or garden) a bit of a boost.


Wednesday, 29 October 2014

> Colliss & Quinton; design for grown up dining room

Having already designed and implemented most of the design for the ground floor of a beautiful Norfolk farmhouse with our sister company, Colliss & Quinton (interior design for grown ups), here is the scheme for the new dining room.



We wanted to create an enveloping, luxurious room for entertaining with a dramatic colour palette and statement wallcovering. The walls are to be painted a rich, glossy, bitter chocolate (Farrow & Ball's Mahogany) with Blackened on all ceilings and woodwork. Our "Serenity" wallcovering is going on the focal wall - you won't see this until you are fully in the room, but on viewing, it will set a grand, exotic tone. Antique chairs upholstered with our new "Our Lady" fabric sit around a huge Saarinen Tulip dining table with Jaime Hayon Josephine T golden pendants suspended low. Gilt pictures and Rococo mirrors hang on the wall, mahogany cabinets flank the chimney breast glittering with crystal decanters and a Sebastian Wrong white Spun floor lamp stands sentinel in a corner. Ornate gilt candelabra and flickering candles will dazzle and bounce soft, gentle light off the chocolate walls.

Works have already started and will be completed in time for Christmas.

www.collissandquinton.com



Tuesday, 28 October 2014

> Woodland Friends WallScene

How about this to brighten up a child's room - a glorious woodland scene with forest animals against a golden citrus green. Evocative of the yellowy Autumnal sunshine bathing the landscape at this time of year, it is guaranteed to transform any room. Mix it with light oak furniture and pick out some of the jewel like colours for soft furnishings to complete the room.


Thursday, 23 October 2014

> Wood Print Woodland Cowparsley

Our lovely Wood Print Woodland Cowparsley will transform any wall into a gorgeous woodland wonderland. The print is really quite fabulous - a soft, earthy wooden texture which compliments any nursery interior and give a gentle contemporary vibe. 

If you are revamping a bedroom for your little one, this design will add freshness and vitality to a focal wall and will grow with your child, lasting for years!



Tuesday, 14 October 2014

NEW Pretty Flamingo cushion

Our pretty flamingo looks gorgeous on this cushion. The gently textured background print is layered with a delicate pattern and our poem about these beautiful, exotic birds. The flamingo is dazzling in shades of crimson, pink and vibrant orange... it really packs a decorative punch and will enliven any interior.  Pretty Flamingo will be available in November.

Our grown up interiors company  Colliss & Quinton (for mums and dads), is launching in November, and the cushion will be available alongside our first furniture range, also featuring this alluring design. 


Friday, 10 October 2014

NEW Stag cushion

Sneek peek of our new Stag cushion available in November, and part of our new Tartan range.

We've been working on a new range and will showcase the designs over the next few weeks, but we are loving this design. We've richly layered the cushion design with a distressed paint effect background, subtle patterning and contemporary typography. The tartan is gorgeous, in plummy shades of brown and blacks with a soft lilac thread. We've increased the size of our cushions to a lovely 46cm x 46cm format and they are printed onto a beautifully soft 100% cotton Cambric.  

Perfect for the new season!

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

> for the love of Lego

"Can I get some more LEGO, mum?" A perennial question in our household, and one, I'll guess, that's repeated around the globe. Well, how about taking your little ones to the Old Truman Brewery to see an incredible display of over 80 art sculptures, all made from LEGO bricks. 


These incredible sculptures, created from more than a million LEGO® bricks are the work of artist Nathan Sawaya. The show has already attracted millions of visitors worldwide in New York, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Shanghai and Singapore.

Pieces at the exhibition span his career from his earliest creations to brand new ones in a mix of sculpture and pictures. There are pictures of the Mona Lisa, Rembrandt's self-portrait and The Scream. The T Rex (made from 80,000 Lego bricks alone) measures six metres in length.

 The Old Truman Brewery, 91Brick Lane E1 9QL until 4 January.


Monday, 9 June 2014

> STOP PRESS! more interior design news...

As well as revamping our website to include our new designs and new interior design options, we will also be providing the interior design to an award winning London children's store! Clients coming to the shop to purchase the incredible array of fabulous interior products will be able to commission us design exclusive children's bedrooms and playrooms for them. 

We will make an announcement as soon as the details are finalised. 

So exciting! 

Thursday, 24 April 2014

> interior design

We are re-vamping our website and will very shortly have a new selection of WallScene wallpapers, wall stickers, cushions and furniture and lighting. All very exciting and busy at the moment.

We will also be offering interior design as a e-service as well as a bespoke hands on service. This means you can send in photos of your room together with dimensions and we will design a stunning room for you. We'll supply you with mood boards, a full room layout, wallpaper and fabric samples and a list of product to order to complete the room. All nice and simple and super easy to do.

We also offer a bespoke service where we meet you and design and manage your rooms, using our fab team of craftsmen. This service is perfect if you don't have the time to manage a project yourself.

Here are some lovely ideas for room designs to whet your appetite...






Thursday, 3 April 2014

new London interior project

Before you start an interior project, you really need to understand your client, anticipate their taste, needs and wants whilst gently steering them down the path that you know will inspire them. Hopefully, you can encourage them to consider different elements and finishes they wouldn't perhaps naturally have considered so you end up with something you are all proud of.

We will present our client with a mood board containing a selection of images to inspire them with the direction we are planning to take before we start the actual design. 

Our latest project is the design for a bedroom in London. The rest of the house is fairly neutral with a palette of whites and soft greys and some lovely artworks on the walls. I felt a Scandi style would work well for my client... and I was spot on.

Here are the images we supplied to a client as design inspiration. Lots of layers, wooden flooring, piles of cushions and fur throws, graphic black framed prints, anglepoise lamps, little bit of gilt... can't wait to start!






Monday, 31 March 2014

> Little Ben on today's This Morning show

Our Little Ben Wall Clocks were featured on today's This Morning show with Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby in a "putting WOW factor in your wall clocks" feature with gadget guru Steve Wilson.

The Orange Little Ben was featured and they loved it, saying it was "brilliant"! Thank you very much.

Thanks also to Not On the High Street.



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> new collection - Moon Landings range

Here's our new Moon Landings collection for all you stargazers out there. We've got a fab new cushion, to go with our clock and two lovely art prints. All of the six Apollo landing sites are mapped out and the detail on these products is fantastic.

The cushion shows the moon with distressed typography, extracts quoted by Neil Armstrong as he touched the moon surface. It's 44cm diametre and printed on 100% cotton cambric, with black cotton backing and zip closure. It also comes with a feather pad.

The Art Prints, in white and warm grey shows the moon in pin sharp detail with more of Neil Armstrong iconic statements.

We think the range looks pretty cool - let us know what you think?



Thursday, 27 March 2014

> NEW - Moon Landings Moon Clock

One small step for man... one large lunar wall clock... 

Introducing our Moon Landings Clock. It's big, at 52cm diameter with pin sharp photographic detail and all the Apollo lunar missions mapped out. And we've even included The Eagle lunar module with the clock. 

Although it appears a bright white in the night sky, it's surface is actually quite dark, filled with deep volcanic craters on one side which contrast with the brighter toned highlands and dramatic impact craters! All of which you can see on the clock.



Wednesday, 26 March 2014

> 20% OFF our Big and Little Ben clocks

FLASH SALE this weekend on all our Big and Little Ben clocks.

Our Big and Little Ben's are now better than ever and we are having a flash sale starting this Friday 28th March from 8pm to midnight on Sunday 30th March. All of these clocks will have 20% off and include free postage!

Grab them while you can.





> New Colliss & Quinton project - designing a lifestyle store in Burnham Market

We're very happy to share the news that our sister company Colliss & Quinton interiors has just been commissioned to design a new lifestyle store in Burnham Market, Norfolk, due to open in June. Our long standing clients Foras are opening this store together with a designer and bespoke kitchen company. Their goal is to create a 'walk in' shop where you can see and commission wonderful kitchen and bathrooms, stunning stone flooring, garden landscaping and interiors. 

Situated on the High Street of beautiful, idyllic Burnham Market, we are designing the branding, fascia and interiors.



Friday, 21 March 2014

> new interior design commission

Working on a new interior design project for a 13 year old girl. This is my inspiration for her bedroom... soft neutral walls, natural woods and accents of grey and black warmed up with faux fur throws. The plan is to give her a 'studio' style room, with a place to sit and do homework, chill out and entertain her friends.

Thursday, 20 March 2014

> stocking Oeuf NYC furniture

We are very happy today... we have big plans afoot to expand the company and add top quality furniture to our webshop. And, we have been accepted as one of just a handful of retailers to sell the amazing Oeuf range of products, including the some of the best cot designs on the market, brilliantly cool and contemporary bunk beds, chests of drawers, single beds, and storage shelves.

This is such exciting news. We use their furniture in our interior design projects and always recommend their products to customers asking for advice on what to buy. And now, we can sell direct!

Here are just a few examples of Oeuf's amazing line... and of course, you can see their wonderful grey Sparrow cot in the new WallScene wallpaper design we presented yesterday (bottom image).

The range will be available from April.








And here is the wonderful Sparrow cot with one of our new WallScene designs (also available in April). 



Wednesday, 19 March 2014

> new WallScene design

Here's a work in progress WallScene design we are working on for a brand new collection. The new collection will feature photographs and paintings cut out and mixed together with pattern and texture to create ethereal montages with a hint of Victoriana. WallScenes, cushions and art prints will be included in the collection.

How lovely does the design look with the wonderful Oeuf 'Sparrow' crib - the best design on the market. 

The new designs will also feature in our new Colliss & Quinton webshop, (for 'grown ups' showcasing recent interior design projects, wallpapers, furniture etc) almost ready for launch.