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Today we love: Arcana's recycled cotton tapestry wraps and blankets
A wrap or blanket is much appreciated on a chilly morning or evening. Arcana's Night Garden and forthcoming Spring Botanical designs have been hand drawn and and are woven in small batches from recycled cotton
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Rugs and runners: an easy way to enhance your home
For many of us, it's the rug that maketh the room... a beautiful rug adds colour, texture and softness underfoot. We've compiled a variety of designs across the price ranges that will put a spring in our step as we tread through 2024
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Pop a cork: in praise of cork's versatility
Cork's long been associated with bottle stops and dull flooring. Not any more: it's the eco-friendly, design-friendly material designers can't get enough of for furniture, homewares and decorative accessories
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Kitchen compost bins: get composting and grow your own
..or at the very least save your food scraps and peelings for your local council to compost. So come on people, make 2024 your greenest year ever, which means getting a counter top bin for the kitchen - and a garden composter too if you have the space.
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Accessories
A wrap or blanket is much appreciated on a chilly morning or evening. Arcana's Night Garden and forthcoming Spring Botanical designs have been hand drawn and and are woven in small batches from recycled cotton
UK-based homewares company EKO has developed compostable liners for large household bins
Coffee grinds lampshades are just some great eco inventions from Spain
Events
Cornish artist Emma Jeffryes has an exhibition of recent paintings coming up at the New Craftsman Gallery in St Ives
Buying antiques is a great way of furnishing with minimal impact on the environment. And if you're always on the look-out for fascinating one-off pieces, don't miss the Decorative Antiques & Textile Fairs, which running through the year
Interiors
We all acquire stuff as we go through life and most of us would, if push comes to shove, agree we're more hoarder than Marie Kondo aficionado. Interior designers Studio Dean urge practicality and suggest we can be a bit more judicious about what we keep and then use some of that stuff to make our homes look cool, not stuffed to the gills
The key to making wise changes to your home is to assess and plan and then do everything in the most eco-friendly, energy efficient way
Frustrated that you can't keep track of time? the answer is to get a clock on the wall in more rooms in your dwelling. And the good news is there are some stylish models to make time pass very pleasingly indeed.
Gardens
The garden industry is pretty green already, it's certainly streets ahead of the big supermarkets, particularly when it comes to packaging. But there's no room for complacency and all it takes is for people to read the labels or ask few questions before buying
Harry Villiers, of furniture making brothers Villiers Brothers, took some steel, wood and glass and built an enviable bolt-hole in his Essex garden
Unlike our friends with feathers, bats generally get a bad rap. But that's unwarranted because there are very few vampire bats (and none in the UK), and bats do not attack humans. In fact, we should be encouraging these shy little creatures because they bring many benefits to our gardens
