On the sofa with Lucy from Rowen & Wren
If you look for stunning, beautiful and high quality products for your home, look no further than mydeco.com supplier Rowen & Wren. From their hugely popular Dayani button backed chair (seen in the image of Lucy below), to the smallest touches, every product is carefully chosen for its effortless style. We caught up with Lucy,... Read more...
Design like the pros: meet suppliers Plant & Moss and enter our new competition
One of our longstanding favourite suppliers here at mydeco.com, Plant & Moss creates truly beautiful and unique furniture pieces. We’ve teamed up with them to offer you the chance to win their star piece, the Clamp Lamp (worth £210!) by entering our new design competition. They are looking for a 3D room design created based on... Read more...
Get 2 for 1 tickets for Grand Designs Live with Kevin McCloud
The Grand Designs Live exhibition is coming – from 5-13 May, Excel London will be full to the brim with over 500 exhibitors, hundreds of talks and workshops and top industry experts giving free advice. mydeco.com have teamed up with Grand Designs Live to offer you a 2 for 1 discount on tickets – just... Read more...
Getting to know you: meet one of our new suppliers, Nkuku
mydeco.com is expanding! In the next few months, we’re inviting a host of new designers to partner with us. One of our favourite new additions is Nkuku, whose focus is on eco-friendly, ethical homewares and gifts, inspired by their travels around Africa and India – even the company name is borrowed from a village in... Read more...
On the sofa: Meet our home accessories supplier bark
When the new-look mydeco.com launched in November we wanted to say bah humbug to the high street hum-drum and hello to a specially selected bundle of beautiful, handpicked product and design. And I think it’s safe to say we have. Now, not only do we have a new website and new outlook, we have a... Read more...
mydeco boutique designer of the month: Laura Olivia
Vivid colour, charming pattern and indulgent fabrics are just some of the qualities that have allowed Laura Olivia to become one of this year’s most popular mydeco boutique designer. The talented textiler joined mydeco last year after wowing us with her brightly embellished homewares at the 2010 New Designers graduate event. Since then, Laura has... Read more...
Too pretty for the pantry: Interview with home decor designer Caroline Swift
Earlier in the year our guest writer Chauncey Zalkin, founder and creator of ‘women in design’ website What Women Make, savored the delights of the Milan Furniture Fair. She reported on the triangle trend and her favorite design discoveries – from portable hot tubs to tornadoes in a vase. Next, she shared pictures of the... Read more...
How to make a lamp shade with DesignBark
mydeco boutiquer, DesignBark, has just released her new range of lamp shades, entitled Big Top, which uses an old English circus graphic. Sarah Newman is the founder of DesignBark and screen prints her designs onto real wood veneer using only FSC suppliers. Ellie and I went along to her South-East London studio where she showed... Read more...
The walls say it all: We talk to wallpaper company Turner Pocock Cazalet
We catch up with cool and funky mydeco boutiquer, Turner Pocock Cazalet, who reveal their inspiration behind their bold wallpaper designs. Turner Pocock Cazalet is a joint venture between interior designers Bunny Turner and Emma Pocock, who were inspired when they saw Catherine Cazalet’s hand-drawn sketches and portfolio. They have teamed together combining Turner and... Read more...
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Tips and trends from gardening expert David Domoney
We went down to the Ideal Home Show, Earls Court, London to have a quick chat with garden enthusiast David Domoney. Speaking to him in front of the inspiring Young Gardener of the Year exhibition we could see the innovative ways that design can be used in gardening. Gardener to the stars, David has a huge... Read more...
Keep your eyes on… interior designer Heather Jenkinson
Are you a graduate designer in need of business advice? Do you want some expert colour tips? Or are you looking for an interior designer who won’t use your house as a canvas for their own [questionable] sense of style? Well, you can stop looking because you’ve reached the right place. Interior designer and colour... Read more...
Filming Harry Potter: what it was like, and moving on
Emma Watson’s hair and makeup artist took me through a fast, Quidditch-paced day on the set of the latest box office smash, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1. As we crunched our way through breakfast, Charlotte Hayward had me captivated with how busy and unusual working on the Harry Potter films were, and... Read more...
