Tagged: trends

September 27, 2021

Trends x

Natural or not is the big question. Along with fad versus longevity. Both comments a reflection on a turn in the tide, a smell in the air heralding a new desire strong colour. The clash, the crash, the sheer excitement of the wrong made right – except, bright colours are natural and have already stood the test of time as the animal kingdom proves. What’s fascinating for me is when life is often at it’s bleakest – I’m writing this questioning how the whole infrastructure of the UK seems to be crumbling with panic buying, shortages and empty shelves (and all the time asking myself, how many years has this current government been in power?) fashion responds by becoming it’s brightest…

(All pics pinterest)

Now to find myself a pair of emerald green culottes and a pair of pink pointy kitten heels…

Laters, Kate x

January 4, 2021

Socked x

Happy New Year! We undressed the Christmas tree yesterday – a mark of understanding that this day, Monday 4 Jan, would be the official start of normality and the end of the lull, even before twelfth night. Can I say how much I love the lull? Every excuse to rein in, relax and restore; I know it can’t go on forever – that things ending mean they don’t lose their power to happen again. But I will miss it.

I think it was helped that we’ve hit a cold patch in London, encouraging layers and fires and general huddling and cuddling. Although, of course, only in our family unit. There’s also been lots of walking – which has meant a realisation that 3/4 length trousers, of which I seem to wear a lot, have an obvious design fault – but where there’s a will, there’s a way – and an investment in socks – notably long, knee high socks to lessen draft – striped socks, bright socks, argyle socks – has solved the problem in a most norm corm but satisfying way.

(All pics Pinterest)

Viva la sock!

Laters, Kate x

June 3, 2020

Favourites x

I am an avid Pinterest poster. Driven by all things visual, I find it a place I can nail down fleeting thoughts and find substance to inspiration. It’s the workings of my inner mind, but held in aspic so it doesn’t fly away again. It’s also my way to test longevity – a day, a week, a month later, is there still the same reaction? Sometimes things are pinned for the wrong reasons – on one level it’s a sofa, but the real magpie glint is the inspiring colour of the wall. Sometimes there’s a purpose, often there’s not, the intent just to trail a hand in the flow of colour and movement, pick up the scent of future trends. But this post is about what has caught other people’s eyes, what has unexpectedly cut the mustard in the big, wide world? Like this chair, from Ian Snow, has a remarkable 1.6k impressions. Is it the velvet? the flexibility? the squish? Or all three?

It’s summer, the 70’s are becoming a thing. No surprise then that all things rattan are having a moment. Like this light from Etsy, 123 impressions and counting.

This one, again from Etsy. A bargain at £32.53 plus shipping. 104 impressions and rising.

This light is ranking third – from Design Vintage at £110 has 94 impressions.

At 110 impressions, this modern garden pod has caught the imagination. It comes from a photo I took from the Home section of The Times. No details unfortunately.

Is it the bench? Or the cushion? The link was for the cushion – £45 from Dibor – 915 for impressions.

(All picks Pinterest)

The cushion on its own….444 impressions.

It’s a strange old world.

Laters, Kate x

February 5, 2020

Somewhere Summer..

The first snow drops, hints of blue, lighter mornings, the subtle suggestions of a season on the turn. I was reading yesterday that I would not be able to claim the emerging spring as a fact because there is no such thing as proof, no matter how much we look for it. Because proof can only exist when there is no doubt, and there is always doubt. Which I rather love, because it means the world is a chaotic, insane place, no matter how much we try to control it. It also means there’s no proof for my claim that there’s a zeitgeist on the air for summer clothes, but I can still put a finger up to the wind and feel it: Unstructured, loose, layered with soft, softened cotton and colours that carry age, a step away from dynamic and full blooded. A nod to ancient cultures, simplicity of form but attention to proportion and complimentary dimension.

(All pics Pinterest)

Bring it on.

Laters, Kate x

October 23, 2019

Craig Ellwood Bobertz

Midcentury furniture has been a thing for like forever. But the interior bits around have always tainted by a whiff of old fashioned, decomposed, gone. And then you see an article with pictures. And suddenly there’s a connection; the pleasure sensors of your brain start to fire, the tentacles of imagination reaching out, asking for more, what was a wall becomes a door…is this really happening?

(All pics Here and Pinterest)

I believe it is.

Laters, Kate x

March 21, 2018

Scales x

When’s a tile not a tile?

(All pics Fireclay tiles)

When it can think out of the box?

Laters, Kate x

January 22, 2018

Colourscope x

If there’s a new trend coming it’s all about colour.

Which is not to say anything goes.

Because whilst colour is happy, joyous, exuberant and life affirming..

Get it wrong and it’s discordant, jarring and painful.

(All pics Pinterest)

Good job nobody here got it wrong..

Laters, Kate x

January 30, 2017

White on..

There are some things that even science still can’t explain..

Past bathroom trends: Curiously overstated, flamboyant, slapstick and in your face.

But maybe it wasn’t so bad…maybe we’ve now gone too much the other way – found the plot but lost the fun?

Because yes, there was holy chaos…but take away the shag pile carpets, soften the saturated colour..and the essence of something special is in there..