Amode designer homewares
Add some designer details to your home with the lovely contemporary goodies on offer at www.amode.co.uk.
We’re quite taken with this quirky Butterfly Wall Clock, £109.99 (position the butterflies where you want them), but also love the sleek white cuboid TV units with seamless push-and-click doors and clever Bathmag magazine and toilet roll holder.
Their collection – which includes designer names such as Karim Rashid, Black + Blum and Joseph Joseph – also have great lighting and kitchen accessories, plus bigger pieces including beds, dining furniture, armchairs and stylish floating bookshelves.
www.amode.co.uk
Christmas card cool
Artist Reuben McHugh has managed to give us a welcome change from the usual corny offerings with his fresh, edgy – and beautifully produced – Christmas cards that rethink the traditional imagery of the season with fabulous results. Cards are from £3.95 for a pack of five, with a 40p donation going to Red Cross or NSPCC.
Stockists include Harrods, or order online at www.paper-dart.com
Sweet home
Luckily – in these credit-crunched times – if you want to perk up your home, you don’t have to spend a fortune. And White Company founder-owner Chrissie Rucker is on hand to share her expert tips.
‘A scented candle, a lovely flower in a glass vase, a cosy throw on the back of a sofa – the simplest things can make any home warm and welcoming,’ she says. And in her new book How to Make Your House a Home she talks you through how to set the scene and select the final finishing touches.
How to Make Your House a Home explores all aspects of creating atmosphere through light, scent, texture, shape and colour – from choosing flowers to selecting the right room fragrance - with fabulous photos to show you how it should be done.
How to Make Your House a Home, out 1 November (Craft Publishing, £10)
