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True Blue: 9 Fabulous Blue Home Accessories

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Best blue home accessories

Blue, and blue and white, interior design schemes remain a popular choice and work effectively in both classic and contemporary home styles.

If you’ve got a blue decor scheme in action or are planning a blue transformation, then here are 9 lovely blue home accessories to consider.

Clockwise, from top centre to middle:

1. PiP Studio blue and white (with a hint of red!) Toile de Pip oriental floral design square cushion – £22 from Amara.

2. Spode blue Italian footed china cake plate – £40 from Ancestral Collections.

3. Blue and white damask St Antoine designer wallpaper – £82 per roll from Fabrics and Papers.

4. Nanza Moonlight blue shaded cushion – £6.75 (from £9) at Tesco.

5. Blue shiny chrome Kartell Cindy table lamp by Ferruccio Laviani – £120.70 from Heal’s.

6. LSA Coro blue lagoon tealight holders – set of four for £16 from Heal’s

7. Set of three stripe storage boxes – £25 from John Lewis.

8. 40 piece blue and white floral combo dinner set – £50 from Freemans.

9. Set of four mixed blue and white striped coffee cups and saucers – £31 from John Lewis.

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Metal circles wall clock reduced at Debenhams

Saturday, July 16th, 2011
Contemporary metal wall clock home accessories

Stylish wall clock

This unusual metal circles wall clock is both a functional clock and a decorative home accessory.

From an inner circle where the clock mechanism is located, three sets of metal circles, in graduating sizes, are combined to create a unique and stylish contemporary clock. As it’s made from metal and glass, it has the added bonus of adding an element of light and reflection into a room.

The metal circles wall clock was originally £35, but is currently reduced down to £28 in the sale at Debenhams.

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Half price Dapple bubble rug from John Lewis

Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Half price rug designs for your home

Bold and bright rug

A rug is an excellent form of home accessory to use to add colour or interest into a room, or to bring together your interior design scheme.

This acrylic woven rug Dapple rug is bursting with colour and interest. Bright and bold, it features an array of multi-sized bubbles and would be perfect for a modern or contemporary home.

Available in two sizes, the Dapple rug is currently half price in the sale at John Lewis, with the smaller size now only £25.

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Floral teal ceramic vase from Next

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
Modern flower cermaic teal vase

Flower design vase

A pretty ceramic vase can liven up an empty corner of the desk in your home office, or add interest to the shelves in your living room or bedroom.

Thanks to the contemporary floral design on this vase, it doesn’t necessarily even have to have flowers in it to look appealing, as it’s decorative enough as it is.

The ceramic motif vase is cream and teal in colour, measures 28cm in height and is an affordable £12 from Next.

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Colourful LSA Coro tealight holders

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Beth Stevens tealight holdersBargain candle holder setBerry red tealight holder

Glass specialists, LSA, have produced some wonderful sets of tealight holders as part of their Coro collection.

Each set has four small tealight holders made out of coordinating colours of glass. Some of the options include the nautical blue lagoon, with tealights range from azure blue to a deep, violety blue, and leaf, with four shades of green hues.

There’s also a stunning berry set which is bursting with shades of red, pink and purple.

The range of LSA Coro tealight holders are all available from Beth Stevens and are well priced at only £14.95 per set. Buy them for yourself, as a gift or split them with a friend.

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Stiletto shoe door stop

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Sexy stiletto shoe in red or black

A foot in the door...

There’s nothing more annoying than a door banging shut and now that the weather is improving (well, hopefully!) and you have the windows at home open, unintentional door banging is likely to occur more often.

A door stop is the ideal way of helping prevent doors from banging and if you’re looking for something a bit quirky and unusual to prop your doors open, then how about this funky stiletto shoe?

Available in a choice of red or black, the shoe door stop is made out of rubber, so it’s super durable for its door stopping activities.

The stiletto door stops are available from Totally Funky.

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Russian Doll bookends and hooks

Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Russian doll bookends

Russian doll bookends

Russian dolls seem to have be very on trend suddenly, with images popping up in all sorts of home accessories.

These Russian doll bookends are lovely and colourful, painted in girly colours of pink, cerise, turquoise and red, and would a great accessory for propping up your books.

For the ultimate in accessorizing, why not also buy the matching hooks?

Russian doll hooks Russian doll hooks

Featuring three Russian dolls in graduating sizes, they’d be a fun way of hanging up coats or even tea towels.

Both the Russian doll bookends and Russian doll triple hooks are available from Beautiful Things, for £8.99 and £8.95 respectively.

 
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