I do not need any more prints - but this one from Studio Violet is just too dinky. I think I’ll put it in the bathroom of the new studio…
It cost €27.00 including shipping >here<.
xBlanaid
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As you may or may not know, I’ve written a couple of interiors features for the Irish Independent (< click to read the first article)recently; where I take a property that’s for sale and give it a hypothetical makeover using products sourced from around Ireland and the internet.
Soooo…over the next few weeks, I’m going to post all of the products I’ve found on my trawls, in the hopes they may be of some use, even if it’s just to look at…!
I’ll also upload the PDF’s of the articles when I get an afternoon..
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Image above : Room styled by Blanaid Hennessy, photographed by Andrew Clancy
in Bramley’s Department Store, Main Street, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois, Ireland, which has a HUGE and quite amazing selection of lovely things, as well as parts of the store set up as inspirational rooms.
Phone : (057) 8730996 E-mail: info@bramleys.ie Web : www.bramleys.ie
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‘Viceroy’ velvet curtains from €125.00 plus p&p, www.anthropologie.com
Marks & Spencer’s Portland 2 seater sofa in the Autograph ‘Neo Steel Blue’ fabric - €2089.00 (01) 8728833
Beautiful candlesticks from Irish site : Mabel & Violet
Selection of prints available from Irish photographer Moselle Foley. email : me@mosellefoley.com for information, or visit her > website <
Chrome 1950’s style telephone €79.99 plus P&P from www.pressieport.ie. T: +353 (0) 1 4605350
Hungarian Grain Sack Cushions available from the ‘Helkatdesign’ store on www.etsy.com.
Prices start from appx €28.00 with p&p from appx €5.00
For a selection of antique armchairs and furniture, try : Larkins Furniture, Templetuohy, Co. Tipperary (0504) 53132
More to follow over the next couple of weeks!
x Blanaid
My second interiors feature is in the Irish Independent property supplement today (Fri)…It’s a segment called ‘Put your stamp on it..‘, where I take a house that’s currently on the market for sale, and give it a hypothetical makeover using products sourced from around Ireland and the internet.
I also go to an interiors store and set up a room in the style I think would suit the home, and this time around, photographer Andrew Clancy and I paid a visit to the beautiful ‘SKI interiors‘ in Naas. The second image is a small selection from the products featured today, including the beautiufl, and incredibly affordable hand painted sideboard from Strawbridge in Co. Wicklow.
You can see more in the Independent today, I hope you like it!
x Blanaid
Lorna from Garrenndenny Lane Interiors is one of those lovely people you happen upon, who will give you a helping hand when you most need it, even if you’re a complete stranger. AND she has a very pretty blog, online store and interior design service - so I thought that you lovely people might like to meet one another ..
Lorna is based between Carlow and Kilkenny, where she offers an interior design consultancy service and stock designer fabrics and wallpapers, including Designers Guild, Swaffer, Jab, Andrew Martin, Sanderson, GP & J Baker, Voyage, Lorient, James Brindley. Her online shop stocks fabulous little gifts and home accessories. Take a wee look-see >>here <<… Her blog is an interior design blog with a bit of farming and rural Irish life thrown in for good measure. She writes about new looks, interior design trends, things she like, and she aims to do an Interior design solution most Fridays ….
Lorna is also holding a competition on her blog and Facebook page at the moment - you could win a hamper full of really, incredibly GOOD goodies if you becomes a fan of my facebook page during the month of October - here’s the link to the facebook page >> here << and to the blog post >>here<<.
Visit Lorna and say howdy over on her blog - www.garrendennylane.ie/blog, or toddle on over to her website: www.garrendennylane.ie
x Blanaid
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Love this poster from the fantastic online store ‘Three Potato Four’. It’s just such a fantastic illustration, and would look great in either a child’s room or a modernist living room. Perfecto!
Buy it >here< for $48.00..
x Blanaid
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I love this classic letterpress poster ‘Work hard and Be Nice to People’, by Anthony Burill…although I prefer to read it as ‘Work Hard AT being Nice to People’…!
It fits perfectly into THIS Ribba frame from Ikea. (I went for the oak veneer)
Click here to buy print for £30.00 from Soma.
x Blanaid
Ikea are FINALLY open in the ROI…meaning an end to those exhausting ik-trips to Belfast, yay! The majorly good news is that there is no Topshop-esque price difference, in fact, if you are buying for your business and getting the VAT back, it’s actually cheaper as our VAT rate is higher than the North. (* I’m not an accountant so I’m prepared to be wrong on this…*)
The bad news? The new room set-ups on their website are so overstyled, it’s blinding. I’ve always thoroughly enjoyed the Ikea catalogues, they’re great inspiration…but this latest collection of shots is just TOO jammed with stuff, with the furniture laid out in an unsettling unsymmetrical manner . I managed to find three that pleased me well enough though..(see above.)
The Maskros light fixture (€105.00) in the first and last image is by far my favourite thing from the PS collection…it’s not on the Irish site just yet, so see it >here <
Using floorboards on the walls (second photo) is just a bit clever and retro! I like it!
Oh P.S - Do you want to buy new covers for your Ikea furniture, but don’t like the spare cover designs in Ikea? Check out Bemz. They have wonderful selection of covers made in a variety of fabrics, and all made to fit Ikea couches and armchairs!
P.P.S Buying lots of stuff, but don’t want to put it together? Check out THE ‘best-named’ flatpack putter-togetherers : ‘Simple Assembly Me Hole’ They ‘ll put all the flatpacked stuff together for you and charge a flat fee of €30.00 per item. Good deal if you like having any kind of time left in the day and unchewed finger nails.
Are you going to pay a visit to Ikea? Got any favourite or definite purchases? Share them!
x Blanaid
Category: Inspiration : Interiors, Shopping : Online
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First up we have my new lovely love - stitsh - a streetsyle blog with a difference. These genii tell you where you can buy stuff similar to what the streetstyl-er is wearing, and this pleases me. It’s great to use Street Style images as inspiration when going shopping and all that jazz, but so much better to just click and shop. *sigh*
Part two is ffffound - which is exactly that, a collection of images fond all over the interweb. Some are just beautiful or interesting photos, others are interiors, product design, gig posters…basically things that would be of interest to anyone interested in anything aesthetic. You’ll love it.
Click below to see my current list of links… feel free to send me some sites to check out!
x Blanaid
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A variation of the floral skirt outfit a few posts down (see that >here<), but this time it’s the plain black skirt over a striped tunic in manner of some figment of my ‘French People Dress Like This Honestly!’ fantastical imagination. Both pieces are from topshop.co.uk, as I am still straight up boycotting Irish Topshops, what with the ridiculous imaginary inflation they put on the currency exchange. Oh it’s £55.00, but €87.00 is it??!!? Great clothes, bad maths.
The striped tunic is sold out in navy, but they have a beautiful grey version still available…perfect on the beach on it’s own (it’s SHORT!) or with a longer skirt worn over it for day wear. Note this though, it’s not a great shape on the bust and shoulder, hence the fur effect, but is great on the back and eh….lower back…if you catch my roundy shaped drift.
Tunic : £20.00 Topshop (see >here<)
Skirt: £18.00 Topshop (see >here<)
Fur: Vintage
Belt: Same old River Island man’s belt that I MUST stop wearing.
Wedges : €9.00 (?)Brown leather Faith wedges…
Excuse the bad macbook photos, will do a shoot this week for more proper outfit posts!
x Blanaid
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