I’m a major fan of Olli&Lime whose ‘grown up’ contemporary bedding and homewares have been gracing children’s spaces for the past few years with a retro colour palette and striking patterns. Yesterday they previewed their new range of kitchen/diner homewares which includes tea towels, napkins, aprons, and table runners featuring their fantastic ‘Charlie’ and ‘George’ designs. They’ll be on sale in a few weeks time and I expect them to be a hit.

Incidentally it’s their kitchen in the background which features chunky concrete worktops – check out their home in the house tour I did a few months back.

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Bob’s Your Uncle is a Boston, Massachusetts based paper goods company founded by Martin and Michele Yeeles in 2001. Originally from England, they moved to the States in 1993 “just for a year or two” and have been in Boston ever since. They have designed this fabulous set of 26 coasters, with all letters from A-Z, great as coasters, but equally great as decor for the home. A steal at $100 from Velocity Art & Design.

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I love bright, stylish, well designed products so immediately homed in on the new Box Appetit lunch boxes by Black + Blum. Made from BPA free polypropylene and copolyester, they look like highly attractive ceramic bowls. The glass like lid locks on to make it watertight, plus there’s a sauce dipping a little sauce pot for storing your dressing…or ketchup, an inner dish which means you can separate hot and cold foods or use it in the microwave, plus a fork to match the trim. Due out mid March, they’ll be £15.95 each.

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Whilst flicking through The Sunday Times fashion supplement, a kooky vintage chair caught my eye, so out came the laptop to have a closer inpection of said chair, which happened to be the 50’s Buttoned Chair in Vintage Fabric from Winter’s Moon. I then browsed the rest of the site, and started swooning … as they also have a pair of Robin Day Polyprop Hille chairs and a lovely 50’s curvy chair in vintage Heals fabric. They’re based in Chichester, West Sussex – which happens to be wear I work, so expect to see more from Winter’s Moon here soon. I like.

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Private members online sale store Achica needs to be bookmarked and ready for stalking, much like another tempting hotspot, The Outnet where I have to stop myself from leaping in on designer clothing bargains. Anyway! Move fast as they have a Karlsson Clocks sale which ends in 1 day, 15 hours, and 40 mins at the time of writing this – ooh the pressure! Get up to 41% off pieces like their Mini Flip Wall Clock which was £118 and is now £70.

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I’m still having a flick through this months issue of Living Etc (April ‘10) and like a sign from the shopping gods, the mag opened up on their edited choice of bedside tables and I felt a tad swoonish when I clapped eyes on the oak bedside cabinet with a drawer (top) – I love furniture with bold curves.

London based company Unto This Last are extremely eco friendly. Working as ‘local craftsmen’ they’re focused on making furniture to order using digital tools that help them avoid laborious industrial processes. All made at the back of their shop, their pieces are all made from a special birch ply composite. They have over 100 products to choose from in oak, walnut, white, and dark brown, and they’re seriously reasonably priced as I’ve seen mass produced stuff without a fraction of the style and dubious material quality, for more.

The bedside cabinets are £95-£115 and the tallboys are £210-£250.

They have two workshops:

230 Brick Lane, London E2 7EB

Queens Circus, London, SW8 4NE

They only deliver in London and you have to go in store and order or do it via the phone, old style.

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I’m a big fan of photos so am loving these magnetic photo frames from Positive Space. There are a few different styles of magnetic frames out there, but these are the best I’ve seen to date. They come as a set of ten individual frames with a brushed aluminum finish. There are two which hold a 4″x6″, three holding 3.5″x5″ and five 2.5″x3″ photos. An absolute steal at £19.99.

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I am loving these drawer knobs from Esty Seller SweetMixCreations. You can choose any combination of eight knobs – mix or match or come up with your own colour combinations for a custom set of knobs. You can also purchase them as a set of six or individually. They cost $6 each.

Each drawer knob is hand painted with several layers of acrylic and then coated with a number of layers of hardwearing gloss, to ensure it stands up to wear and tear. Hardware is included. Love them.

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I’ve just welcomed the iconic Stokke Tripp Trapp in to our home, and it’s definitely more than a high chair. It’s very cool. We don’t use the word iconic lightly on Nest! A piece of children’s furniture which launched in 1972, and is still a best seller now is few and far between. The longetivity of the design, not to mention the product, speaks a thousand words (as does the arrival of the many copycat versions beginning to saturate the market these days).

This high chair is so adjustable that it can be used from the cradle to the grave. Stokke plug it as ‘The chair that grows with your child’. I don’t know how much wear my little one is going to get from it though, as I tend on plonking myself on it at every opportunity!

You can buy a Tripp Trapp from around £110.

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