Recycling the past

We believe that things become more beautiful and more covetable when they are loved and used. Whether it’s a piece of furniture or a treasured childhood toy like a rocking horse vintage pieces give the home soul like no flat-packed mass produced product ever can.

Eclectic interior design trends make it easy to mix pieces of varying age and era to sit side by side in decorative harmony. Be inspired by utility and celebrate the beauty in old everyday objects that give texture and flavour to the most contemporary of interiors.

Old trunks and packing boxes look great when they’re piled on top of one another but they also offer fantastic storage for those things you don’t want on display. In the bedroom they’re perfect for storing bedding and in the lounge they can hide away DVD’s and CD’s. Smaller ones make great memory boxes for children and parents alike to hoard pictures and keepsakes for future years.

In the kitchen old shop fittings like sweet scales and butchers rails can be both decorative and practical. Modern equivalents can be expensive and often of poorer quality. They also won’t create the same talking point for visitors to your home.

Mixing styles in the home is a perfect way to express your personality, to create more than a bought in look that everyone can have off the high street. Have fun hunting for that perfect set of chairs or mirror. It’s worth the effort.