Lovely Things

Heal's Home Event - 50% off sale

Speaking of Heal's recently, if you haven't already, check out their Home Event, with some great discounts of up to 50% off furniture and home furnishings. 'Mu Mu' funky striped reversible bedding started at £50 for a single duvet set and is now from £25 and the lovely 'Mistral' sofa we featured, has now dropped to £1435 for the smaller size.

Discount codes for Wallace Sacks mirrors & gifts

Wallace Sacks, being the generous souls that they are, are offering special discount codes for 25% off mirrors and gifts.

Just enter MR2 for 25% discount on their full range of classic and contemporary mirrors, like the lovely deco-style 'Greta' mirror (right, £275), or if your taste runs to shabby chic, a vintage French style like the 'Versailles' (below, £150) might suit you. All orders over £20 qualify for free delivery too.

They're also offering a 25% discount on gift items, enter GF2 at the checkout. Be quick, the offer codes only work until the end of March!

Summer garden candles from the Cotswold Company

The Cotswold Company is offering 15% off all full-priced items until 16th April, and what better purchase to make than these very sweet 'Summer garden spike candles'. They come as a set of four in blue or yellow and are 76cm high. I think I'd have to go for the yellow as they remind me of oversized buttercups and would look really cute peeping out from between bushes in the garden. They're usually £29.95, but with the discount they're yours for £25.46.

Christian Lacroix for La Redoute

Designer collaborations with High St brands are everywhere these days in fashion, so it's not surprising to see more crossover of this type in home furnishings as well. The Christian Lacroix pour La Redoute collection has just launched and includes a range of homeware items such as tables, bedding and rugs.

Most items are designed around a bright print theme, though, despite being a major print fan, I rather like this simple 'Gloriette' perspex and steel table in orange (£165). It reminds me of the lovely little Eames side table, with its wire frame base.

More unusual are items like the 'Noctopatte' table (below, £255) with its nine (count 'em!) mismatched legs.

Click through below to see more of the Lacroix collection...

New home interiors store, Amode

It's always exciting to hear about new homewares and interiors stores opening, and the most recent online shop to come to my attention is Amode. The store aims to offer quality, design-led home items at lower than designer prices.

There seems to be a strong focus on modern and retro-styled products, and a few home accessories that have caught my eye include the red Pendulum Wall Clock (£14.98) and the simple elegant (and well-priced at £19.98), Seed Lightshade from Black & Blum.

Heal's up to 70% off bank holiday warehouse sale

Brace yourselves people! Heal's is having a bank holiday weekend, up to 70% off, warehouse sale. It starts at 9am on Saturday 25th and finishes at 4pm on Monday 27th August at the Heal's distribution centre in Edmonton, London (N9, near the A406 and the Brent Cross Ikea). Discounted items include this nickel and acrylic Malabar lamp reduced from £100 to just £30, and the Louis black lacquer console table by John Reeves (we featured the outdoor range in June), half price at just £248. 

Vitamin's funky urban gnomes at Onedeko

Looking for a garden ornament that's a bit outside the norm? How about a gnome? Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. Forget your kitschy (and faintly creepy - you know they're watching you) jolly-red-hat brigade and check out these funky urban gnomes by Vitamin. The bone china gnomes stand at 21cm high and come with a variety of patterns from a cute-yet-menacing skull to something more gardeny like a pretty dandelion print or 'undergrowth' (pictured). Available from Onedeko for £48.50 each.

Cute camper van tea-towels from Kitty & Polly

Regular readers will know that I do have a bit of a thing for nice tea-towels (blame my mother, she's more obsessed than I and clearly passed on the gene). They're an inexpensive way to brighten up your kitchen, and make, let's face it, a rather boring chore that little bit more interesting. This summery duo from newly-opened online gifts and accessories store Kitty & Polly combines the iconic, charmingly hippy VW Kombi van with a traditional beach scene of beach huts (that very sought-after summer commodity, now out of the price range of mere mortals). Available in baby blue and pink, the towels are 100% cotton, designed and produced right here in Blighty and cost just £4.50 each. As opening specials, Kitty & Polly is offering free shipping on orders over £40, and 10% off your next order when you register for their newsletter.

Pretty printed tea-towels

In my new flat I have a brand new kitchen, and so I don't want to spoil it with old tea-towels that, frankly, have seen better days. So I'm on a tea-towel mission at the moment and want something pretty but a bit different to the usual range of kitchen-themed motifs. The three towels above all have lovely subdued colouring and interesting patterns (and lots of green, which, as you know, is my colour of the moment), and look lovely and fresh for summer. Read on to find out more... 

Hanging lanterns & tealight holders

When the sun starts to shine, our thoughts turn to outdoor entertaining (even if it is still rather chilly of an evening). Hanging candles and tealights twinkling away give a magical quality to any garden party or BBQ, so here's a few you can pick up in High St stores...

First up is this very pretty Moroccan style hanging lantern from Monsoon. It has crackle glass and hand made brass detailing. It's £15, available only in green and takes a standard tealight candle.