Site of the Month – Homebug
by Lucy Atkinson
You may have noticed recently in some of our product descriptions (if you have been a diligent renovator!), that many of them advise on what sorts of rooms particular pieces will work best in. The delicate and detailed feminine pieces are often linked with rooms filled with flowers and lace – the bold, strong malleable iron and modernist pieces are linked with sparse rooms filled with dark colours and
leathery or knobbled fabrics. But! You don’t necessarily need to have those sorts of rooms already in your house to enjoy the pieces … of course you can create your own individual ideas in your home space, but the site of the month also gives you an invaluable resource for finding the sorts of surrounding pieces that are suggested. Homebug has an uncanny knock for finding beautiful, artistically designed homewares, putting them together in colour groups that make you feel like you’re in a lolly shop, and giving you the exact place you can purchase them all from. Not to mention implanting the colourful and exotic seeds of design ideas in your own head!
You’ll find things like adorable fabrics from Japan – great if you have an Oriental style home, or even a period style with Oriental influences, like Victorian. There are awesome sofas, as well as wooden benches, art for your walls, chairs from the chunky to the cheap, cute kitchen accessories, anything to do with books, and other soft furnishings and textiles. Plus a heap more …
A lot of the pieces in here are quite modern, or at least modernist :-). Best for those of you that have homes from the early part of the century, or slightly before. Think Bauhaus, Adam Style, Victorian, and 20s or 30s homes. However, if you have an eye for design, colour and shape, you’ll no doubt enjoy looking over everything here whether or not it will end up in your own home!
Photo credits: Caldwell Beebe via Desire to Inspire by homebug
