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If you’re thinking about selling or renting out your home, getting it ready for viewings is crucial to ensuring that quick sale or rent. Here are Decology‘s top tips to style your home to sell or rent in order to maximise its value and ensure a positive outcome. Continue reading “How to style your home for sale or rent”
The London Design Festival has just closed its 15th year following the first event in 2003. Intended to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world, it brings together the best design minds in a myriad of fields.
Here are Decology‘s highlights from this year’s festival, to give you inspiration in your own interior design endeavours. Continue reading “London Design Festival – best bits for interior inspiration”
Where did the Summer go? Yes, it’s hard to believe, but Autumn is upon us! This is one of the most vibrant and beautiful times of year and a great opportunity to give your home some Autumn colour! Here are Decology‘s top picks of autumnal furniture and accessories.
Continue reading “Decology’s top picks for Autumn interior inspiration”
According to the latest PANTONE trend report and colour focus, blue is the colour with gorgeous smokey greys and blues taking centre stage in interiors, fashion and makeup colour palettes. Continue reading “Blues & greys for constancy and stability”
Perfect as gifts or for your own home, Gypset Cargo’s stunning collection of hand-made shell and brass-beaded mirrors will bring coastal chic and “boho luxe” to every space.
Mirrors are not just functional; they can also be stunning pieces of wall art and a real focal point, bringing style and substance to living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens and hallways.
Gypset Cargo’s mirrors combine the understated style and sophistication of Cape Cod with the breezy, bohemian coastal chic of Byron Bay.
They are all unique, designed by Jillian Middleton and lovingly handcrafted in Bali by Indonesians artisans. The shells are laid with painstaking precision and trimmed with gold and brass beading. The collection has an additional feature of the Cape Cod Wall Cross – a beautiful piece of wall art in the same style and materials as the mirrors.
The collection includes:
Love Heart Mirror – a beautiful and colourful heart-shaped mirror featuring coloured shells in pinks, mauves, off white and salmon. The perfect gift for the one you love or great as a wedding present.
Rectangular Mirror – White, off, white and mauve shells with rope and brass beading, this mirror is incredibly beautiful and perfect for bedrooms.
East Hampton Mirror (in small or medium sizes) – White and salmon coloured shells, trimmed with brass beading.
Medium Bridgehampton Mirror – A triple layer of off-white shells with gold and brass beading.
Cape Cod Wall Cross – you don’t have to be religious to appreciate the beauty of this unusual piece of wall art. In white shells with brass beading it’s the ultimate piece of coastal chic.
Gypset Cargo epitomises the “bohemian luxe” of the gypset with a handmade range of stunning pendants, chandeliers and mirrors. All the pieces are lovingly crafted from natural, recycled or sustainable materials, with every aspect handpicked with Jillian’s keen stylist’s eye for detail.
All pieces are made and embellished with materials such as individually stamped beading from coconut shells, discarded shells from the ocean, farmed shells, wood, abaca vine, rattan (cane) and even fishing line.
Jillian designs all her pieces, which are then hand made by talented artisans in Bali using local materials.
Perfect as gifts or for your own home, Gypset Cargo’s stunning collection of hand-made shell and brass-beaded mirrors will bring coastal chic and “boho luxe” to every space.
Mirrors are not just functional; they can also be stunning pieces of wall art and a real focal point, bringing style and substance to living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens and hallways.
Gypset Cargo’s mirrors combine the understated style and sophistication of Cape Cod with the breezy, bohemian coastal chic of Byron Bay.
They are all unique, designed by Jillian Middleton and lovingly handcrafted in Bali by Indonesians artisans. The shells are laid with painstaking precision and trimmed with gold and brass beading. The collection has an additional feature of the Cape Cod Wall Cross – a beautiful piece of wall art in the same style and materials as the mirrors.
The collection includes:
Love Heart Mirror – a beautiful and colourful heart-shaped…
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If you’re not particularly green fingered, but want a bit of foliage in your home and to bring the outside inside, then a great way to add some plant life is with accent pieces of furniture and accessories with botanical motifs, colours and prints.
At Eco Chic, the online emporium for eco conscious homewares, we’re constantly inspired by the beauty of our lush coastal Queensland surrounds. We love a bit of foliage!
Many of our pieces have been designed to incorporate vegetation. Here are our top picks for beautiful botanicals.
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Bring a little bit of luxury to every home.
Gypset Cargo (formerly Gia Collectione), the Australian homewares label by brilliant lighting designer, Jillian Middleton, has a brand new collection of exquisitely designed, handcrafted chandeliers and pendants to bring a little bit of luxury to every home. Continue reading “New American Glamour Chandeliers by Gypset Cargo”
Get this fabulously fun and fruity look with dip-coloured wicker pendant lights
A lot of crafty seventies interiors trends are making a comeback at the moment and at Eco Chic we’re wild about wicker! One of our obsessions is pendant lights. In a kitchen, dining room, living room, hallway, kids room…we can’t get enough of them, so combining pendants with a fun take on retro wicker is win-win in our book! Continue reading “Wild About Wicker!”
Celebrate The Perfect Coastal Christmas With Eco Chic
At Eco Chic we love making creative use of all things unloved and washed up! So what better use of Australian driftwood than to create some fabulous festive decorations for a delightfully coastal Christmas? Continue reading “Natural Driftwood Festive Decorations”
Give a homewares gift with a conscience
Elegant, unique and eco friendly homewares gifts don’t need to cost the Earth. If you’re stuck for ideas this Christmas, Eco Chic, the online homewares and furniture emporium for the eco stylish, has some really beautiful ideas for the perfect gift with a conscience.
Handmade Istanbul and Agate Coasters
Coasters are a brilliant way to add a bit of colour and style to a room in a very subtle way. They’re also a must have if you want to avoid marking your beautiful furniture.
The Ist
anbul coaster collection will add a splash of divine international charm to your table. Craftsmen make these beautifully colourful, handmade coasters from tumbled limestone, using designs from ancient Turkish frescoes, transferred onto each piece by hand – which means each coaster is unique. To protect your furniture, the bottoms of these pieces have cork backing. They’re heat resistant and can be easily wiped clean.
Each coaster is 10cm x 10cm. $90 set of 4.
The Agate coaster collection is perfect for dad’s den or a modern city pad. Add a splash of organic style with these unique hand-cut coasters, cut from slices natural Geodes (spherical rocks). Agate is a variety of silica, characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of color, usually found in volcanic rocks.
The bottoms of these pieces have soft bumpers so they will stay in place and not scratch. There are two different colours: Grey with natural edges or Charcoal with 18 carat gold edging for a bit of extra bling!
Each Agate coaster averages 8-10cm diameter – all are different. $120 for set of 4.
New Eco Chic Beautiful Bone Photo Frames
Get into an eco frame of mind this Christmas with our new 2015 collection of beautiful frames made from intricately hand-worked bone. While some may associate bone with outlawed hunting practices, our bone frames are hand made from genuine cow bone that is an abundant by-product of the cattle trade and encourages use of the entire animal product.
The bone is lovingly hand-worked by skilled craftsmen who carve and hand-dye the bone to create the most gorgeously coloured, individual designs, which will provide a wonderful home for your photos, while adding colour and style to your home. Given their handcrafted nature, each frame is unique.
Eco Chic features many furnishings that are handmade by artisans and craftsmen, which provides the dual benefit of creating jobs for people (not machines) and promotes historical and cultural handicraft techniques.
Holds a 4″x 6″ photo. Overall dimensions are 17 x 23cm. $80
Ceramic Soap Dispensers Give a Stylish Twist to Christmas Toiletries!
Ceramic is an ancient and eco friendly process that utilizes readily available and renewable resources like clay and people have been creating both practical and ornamental homewares from it since time immemorial. Eco Chic’s beautifully decorated French style ceramic soap dispensers are both practical and ornamental. Handmade, handpainted and fired these beautiful soap vessels will add a little je ne sais quoi to every bathroom!
Pretty, practical and easy to use – add a fresh, floral fragranced soap to complete the effect and you have a very stylish take on the “Christmas toiletries” theme. Perfect for mums, grannies, aunties and friends.
Soap Dispenser Size: 11cm wide x 6cm deep x 23cm high. $70
Picture Your Own Pet Cushions!
The next best thing to snuggling up to your furry friend, these cushions feature your very own pet on a handmade, natural linen cushion that comes with an insert fill made from recycled PET (geddit?!) drink bottles.
These cushions make the perfect gift for anyone who loves their pets as much as the Eco Chic team, whose sample cushion is in memory of Bess. And for any cushion you order, Eco Chic will donate $10 to the Animal Welfare League.  We’re keepin’ it Furry, friends.
Just send in your high res image and Eco Chic will make a custom cushion you will treasure forever. Shipping Time. Approx 3-4wks; Accent Cushion Size: 40cm x 40 cm.
For more information and to view everything in store at Eco Chic, go to www.ecochic.com.au.
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