Yellow is such a sign of springtime – daffodils, celandine, primroses. A wonderful, uplifting splash of colour after a long, dark winter. A promise of the warmth and light of a summer just around the corner.
Mellow Yellow
Curated by H is for Home
Month: May 2014
DSW Chair
We’ve just received this reproduction Charles Eames-designed DSW chair for review from Metro Furniture.
It works well as a dining chair, office or desk chair. It would also sit nicely in the corner of a bedroom or lounge too – providing a lovely flash of colour and offering an occasional seat for larger gatherings.
The DSW is available in eleven different colours, our favourite being this gorgeous, sunny yellow.
The chair arrives in 2 pieces and it’s an easy job attaching the moulded plastic seat to the metal & blonde wood base with the Allen key supplied. It’s a very affordable option retailing at just £50.00.
We think it looks great with a range of interior styles and we’ve combined it with mid century modern & antique furniture pieces whilst assessing it in our house. It sits very well with our 1960s fat lava floor vases, provided a good functional seat when combined with our rustic kitchen table or rustic pine workbench… and we love the contrast of the modern yellow moulded plastic with the rich, dark 18th century fruit-wood table that we tried.
Original pieces are fabulous, but they don’t always come within budget – especially if buying a set of 4 or 6 chairs. Metro Furniture offers a good alternative in the form of these practical and stylish reproductions.
Monthly Mood Board: Allotment Chic
Regular readers of our blog will know that we took on a very overgrown allotment just over a month ago. We’ve been down there at least once a week, digging & weeding, pruning shrubs and sewing seeds. We have an idea in mind of how we’d like it to look this time next year. We want it to be a place of refuge and relaxation, somewhere to while away the hours on long summer days. Before that can happen though we’ve got a lot more hard graft ahead of us!
- 7′ x 7′ (2.10 x 2.09m) Windsor corner shed: from £369.95, Shedstore
- Burgon & Ball tool & tuck box – petrol blue: £19.95, Ocado
- Pure Raindrop water butt & watering can: £199.99, Crocus
- Traditional Sussex trug: £54.95, Harrod Horticultural
- Oil drum charcoal BBQ: £44.99, Argos
- Wooden seedling tray: £10, Garden Trading
- Joseph Bentley plant labels: £2.39, Lead the Good Life
- WBC bee hive with gabled roof: £175, Amazon
- Seed saver envelopes by Memo Illustration: £7.50, Notonthehighstreet
- Lamboro garden wheelbarrow: £35.29, Wayfair
- Green ‘Verdi’ outdoor folding table & chairs set: £252, Debenhams
- Vintage flower seed packet country garden bunting flags: £14, Etsy
Charity Vintage: Hornsea Muramic
(earliest listing ends 5 May, 2014 20:23:17 BST)
The British Heart Foundation* is currently auctioning four vintage framed Hornsea Muramic wall plaques. A stylised pheasant, two dove-like birds and a woman. They were all designed by John Clappison for Hornsea Pottery in the 1970s. They don’t come up for sale that often – the last girl sold for £98 and the last two pheasants went for £75 and £112. None of them are anywhere near those prices at the moment. Bid on the lot and you’ve got yourself an instant collection!
*British Heart Foundation is the nation’s heart charity. They help save lives with information, patient care and pioneering research. With your support, they’re beating heart disease for good.