In Storage

stik clothes tidy via clippings.com Now I don't know about you (and perhaps I am about to give too much away here) but I find that not everything I've worn goes into the laundry straight away. And yet, because I'm messy, probably, it doesn't feel quite right to put it back in the wardrobe. So

glass blackboard storage box from cox and cox Sticking with the idea of desk storage, what about these pretty glass boxes. So much nicer than the usual hum drum plastic and with the added benefit that you can see what's inside. these glass storage boxes come in two sizes Choose from either the small or

Desk tidy clamp from folklore Isn't it just true that the simple ideas are often the best? Take this desk tidy for example. The designer has simply applied the Manhattan principle to this piece; ie when you've run out of ground space you must go up. clear your desk space by storing upwards Here, all

hand etched iron bowl This hand etched bowl is a proper multi-tasker and I've always got room for those in my house. Fruit, nibbles, soap, bits of string and paperclips or even just sitting elegantly on the coffee table, this bowl is at home in any room of the house. This nkuku bowl is made

metal animal storage boxes When I first saw these I assumed they were for children, and I thought they were rather sweet for a bedroom or nursery. There is one shelf inside and the star, the bug and the bone are all magnets allowing you to fix notes to the front. However, according to the

vintage map cupboard This cupboard is a rather fabulous combination of old and new; the birch unit has been wrapped in a linen-backed map of the UK and then lacquered to preserve it and the wooden areas have been finished with teak oil. corner detail The Queen Anne style legs are painted dark grey bringing

zinc storage box from rose and grey I love the idea of storage boxes. Sometimes for letters or postcards or jewellery. Or as keepsake places for the baby stuff that you want to store but don't know where to put it. Both my children have boxes filled with the cards received when they were born,

Epicuean picnic hamper Now then, it's June. The last week of. If the weather isn't playing by this stage then I don't know what to say. But hell, it's also Saturday, and I shouldn't have to cross my fingers for fine weather, but I will anyway. So, picnic. This is the perfect hamper for storing

Pipework Coat Rack by Nick Fraser I first saw these pipework coat racks a couple of years ago and I still really love them. They fit so well with the current fashion for all things industrial and it's a great way to bring a little bit of that into your home. There are several different

a selection of serving bowls from anthropologie If there's one thing I constantly think my kitchen is missing, it's beautiful serving dishes. We tend to the all white school of crockery, which looks great on the open shelves (newly painted dark grey) but I do think it looks a bit dull when guests come round

  wall-mounted Alben vases from rowen and wren I love a vase of flowers as much as the next person but there's no doubt that with an over excitable kitten and two growing boys who can't seem to work out what size they are or how much space they take up, there's a certain amount

the new country modern range from J Conran for Debenhams Now look at this. I love it when the High Street gets it right and the new collection from Jasper Conran for Debenhams is great. Having said yesterday I wasn't sure about storage jars with labels, I do like these ones. They're glass for starters

vintage collectable storage tin There are so many different sorts of storage jars out there and, I have to admit, I'm not a fan of the pre-labelled ones for the most part. My own storage jars are all the same Quatre Saison with the gold lids in varying sizes. I prefer glass so you don't

magazine rack from Merci I'll admit it, I buy far too many magazines. It's research. Honest. And the question remains what to do with them all? There's only so many you can put on the coffee table. And in a pile under the coffee table. And pretending to be the coffee table. The answer, probably, is

nest in grey from joseph joseph 100 collection Ten years ago, twin brothers Anthony and Richard Joseph took a long close look at some every day kitchen implements and decided to make them better. The result was the Joseph Joseph Chop2Pot, the hinged chopping board that allowed you to pour what you had sliced straight

wall mounted wine rack It's Friday, it will shortly be wine o'clock and so for that reason it seemed appropriate that today's object of design should be this, wonderful, wall mounted wine rack. For those of you that didn't fancy the wooden champagne rack from a few days ago, this is smaller, slightly less obtrusive

vintage cinema seats You might think this is a touch leftfield as a storage item but the first obvious answer is what is a chair if not storage for the body (or perhaps just bottom) and the second, less obvious, is that storage is about finding space to put things and the joy of these

vintage wooden filing drawers from Home Barn After the modernity of yesterday's pieces, it felt right to look at something a little more vintage today. I love mixing old and new and this would be the perfect storage for either a playroom - my son would love to fill with carefully sorted Lego pieces; one