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Tablescaping refers to the Instagram trend of beautiful, and sometimes heavily decorated, tables. From wedding settings to rustic garden table arrangements, these tablescapes are dream-like and leave us all feeling inspired. But is setting a table really that intricate? What does tablescaping actually encompass? And how do you colour coordinate an entire table?
Fortunately, with a little guidance you can master the art of tablescaping. The team at Peyton & Tyler, a premium homewares outlet which connects beautiful products with environmentally-minded shoppers, share their expertise on creating the perfect tablescape.
Choose your colour palette When venturing into the world of tablescaping, you should choose your colour palette before you do anything else; this will form the foundation of your table setting and will help you bring your chosen theme (if you have one) to life, advise Peyton & Tyler.
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Looking to buy plants online? Whether you want to buy bedding plants, seeds, shrubs or trees, now is the time time to get your garden or balcony prepped for spring and summer and make it a space that you can enjoy all year-long. No outdoor space? Bring the outdoors in by injecting greenery into your home with houseplants.
The pandemic and consequent lockdown restrictions saw the nation embrace gardening like never before, as we were all confined to our homes. Whether it was renovating a once-neglected outside space, tending to a tiny vegetable patch or embracing container gardening on a balcony, we all went plant-crazy. There was an exceptionally high demand in buying plants online for home delivery. Online nurseries and garden centres experienced extremely high volumes, with some having to suspend new orders, implement daily thresholds and introduce virtual queuing systems.
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For the first time ever, popular online florist Bloom & Wild will not sell red roses for Valentine’s Day because the annual holiday on 14th February shouldn’t be about ticking a box with a generic dozen .
Red roses are predictably the go-to romantic flower of choice and, in the art of floriography, red roses symbolise love and enduring passion. No other flower states this quite as effectively as the red rose.
But are red roses as popular as they once were? Last year, the majority of Bloom & Wild customers sent a bright or pastel bouquet for Valentine s Day over traditional roses, according to research from its recent customer survey (
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Creating a comforting space at home has certainly been top of our agenda since the start of the pandemic, so it s no surprise that there s been a surge in demand for cushions as we all look to create cosy sanctuaries at home.
The team at Andrew Martin have seen a 40 per cent increase in cushion sales since lockdown restrictions were first introduced last year – now selling a cushion every six minutes, 24 hours a day – as people look for easy ways to refresh a room affordably
and quickly. Lockdown has left us analysing every element of our lives and particularly our homes. Spending so much time surrounded by our own four walls has driven us to change the things that surround us, says David Harris, Design Director at Andrew Martin.