Hi All,
I have been lovingly looking at my home this weekend, trying to decipher my next decorating moves. This is no easy feat, I have the ideas, but there are not many online stores that cater for my unique thought processes – trust me, it is madness in my mind. One place I have found offers me not only beautiful items for my home, but inspiration to help me clarify the fine points. So, in todays short burst post I am introducing to you Duck Egg Designs.
What Duck Egg Designs is all about
I love a good mum-prenour story and the creation of this gem is one of the best! I know I am not the only one who reads the ‘About Pages’ on unique sites. I am inherently nosey, I just can’t help myself. I love the fact that the story behind the site is humble and that the creation was out of necessity rather than simply fitting in with a trend. Ellie Harrington, the brains behind the site, was unable to find the right furnishings and decorations for her new home. That’s it and trust me, I am finding the journey just as hard. My home may not be new, but when you have a vision in your head and you can’t meet it, it can drive you crazy.
As she started with the fabrics, which is exactly where my inspiration would have led me to, that is exactly where I started my Duck Egg journey. Ellie designed the fabrics to match her home life and interior passion, male dominated blended with vintage kitsch. Now Cath Kidston is one place that I have always stopped off to check out the vintage esque items, but I have always found it difficult to get anything masculine enough to suit a well balanced home.
I mean look at this – so feminine and quirky, but masculine enough to reupholster that old chair sat in the corner. One of the striking things for me is that the choices look similar or first glance, but delve a little deeper and the prints are so delicate, that they are subtly remarkable in their own right. They also scream childhood to me. Now, I don’t have a nursery to decorate, but if I did I would be heading here for fabrics and furnishings. As they have a childhood memory appeal, I truly believe that these prints would work in every room and evoke some memories that may have been hidden in real life, every day grind.
Well you know which one I would choose first – RABBITS!!
Not Only Fabrics…….
Yummy yummy furniture! That is all I can say; well no I can say a lot more and I will. I have a real passion for furniture that is either reclaimed, recycled or that can be reused for another purpose. The trend that has emerged in the past few years for up-cycled furniture fits my style perfectly, but they an often look the same – I mean people even sell fake up-cycled items, I am not even sure how that works. For me I would always want to go for the original and add my personality into that piece of furniture, through dressing it with vases, throws and personal items.
This small bookcase is a prime example of my kind of furniture! It is not pretentious, it is humble and quietly calming – I can imagine where it would go and see myself adding my favorite books onto the shelves. That is how you know that you will cherish your furniture, when you daydream about lovingly polishing it!
In my overal opinion, this is a great store for finding unique items and home wares full of some personality, which is something extra special in this throw away culture.
