Stair Coverings

We received a new brochure yesterday from Roger Oates which has some lovely new products so I thought I'd do a quick post on stair coverings.

Roger Oates produce beautiful flatweaves for hallways and stairs, as well as rugs - and all woven in the UK!  The one which first caught my eye is Kasuri in Indigo ........

Kasuri is from the new Eastern Collection and also comes in Onyx and Cherry.

Also in the Eastern Collection are designs called Kobe, Kyoto which also come in a range of colours but I've shown them both here in the Jade colourways:

Kobe Jade

Koto Jade

There are lots of gorgeous colourful designs as well as a range which uses natural un-dyed Shetland wool in shades ranging from cream to black - very smart!  This one is Swanson Light Grey.

Alternative Flooring also have a good range of options for stairs from sisal to wool in plains, , herringbone, stripes and for the more adventurous - Fair Isle, diamonds, spots plaids and even zebra print! For many of them you can add a linen border to make a stair runner rather than close carpeting.  Here is a small selection from Alternative Flooring:

Super Sisal Boucle Bramley

Sisal Herringbone Hambledon

Wool Cord Olive

Rock 'n' Roll Moondance  

Fair Isle Collection
by Margo Selby

Quirky Tess Duck Egg

Quirky Skinny Natural 

Quirky Dotty Duck Egg

Quirky Fling Duck Egg

Alternative Flooring offer lots of binding options in lots of colours, from plain cotton and linen to stripes, 'Fishscales', suede, leather and faux leather.

Cotton Herringbone Lunar

Linen Lead

Herringbone Green

Like Alternative Flooring, Crucial Trading also offer the option of adding a border to their carpets to make stair runners.  Here are a few of their carpets, starting with wools:

Oregon Stripe Oyster / Stone

Wilton Svelte Willow

Chicago Sage

Fabulous Diamond

And here are a few of their sisals:

Basket Silver

Harmony Herringbone

Herringbone Mist

Oriental Topaz

Harry Zinc

Crucial Trading offer a range of borders in various colours:

Cotton Picallo

Linen Basketweave

Normal Leather

Worn Leather

Suede

Cotton Herringbone

Stairrods (UK) Ltd offers a good range of (as the name suggests!) stair rods to give your stairs the finishing touch.




Blacksmith Black Ball


















Blacksmith Steel Flat

















Premier Balmoral Antique Bronze









They also do a range of doorbars in various finishes to neatly finish a room no matter what the floor covering is (carpet to hardfloor, hardfloor to hardfloor, carpet to carpet).

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Wrap Up Warm!

Partly inspired by the weather, partly inspired by this month's interiors magazines, here are a few cosy blankets and throws ........

Checked Whitby blanket from Little Sanderson available from Bedeck, Debenhams, Amazon - perfect for a little girl's bedroom.  £75.

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Shetland Herringbone Throw in Heather £75.
Bronte by Moon available in Cerise Pink, Aqua, Jade, Pink and Orange.












Basketweave Throw from Sainsbury's - bargain at £10!

Mulberry Home Ancient Tartan Lambswool Blanket £170.  Available from Amara.

Johnstons of Elgin Extra Fine Neat Herringbone Throw.  Shown here in Sea Green and also available in Pewter and Ochre.  £195

Johnstons of Elgin Reversible Blanket Stitch Throw.  Shown here in Light Grey and also available in Mid Grey, Cream and Grey.  £350

Johnstons of Elgin Cashmere Paisley Throw.  Shown here in Light Grey and also available in Pebble and Vintage Blue.  £595.

Melin Tregwynt Gorwel Throw (also available as a blanket)
£122.

Melin Tregwynt Madison Throw, Grey.
£145.

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My Own Home - Dining Room Update

As I alluded to in my "Catch Up Post", we redecorated the Dining Room last summer and this is how it turned out, but first a reminder of how it looked before .......

Lots of wood!










This is what I planned to do ........

And this is how it turned out ........

The walls are Zoffany Half Paris Grey.

We had the chairs sprayed (too fiddly to paint!) and I repainted all the furniture in Farrow & Ball Drop Cloth.

I've yet to paint the inside of the glazed cupboards.






The table and chairs were sprayed in a lacquer to match the Farrow & Ball paint colour.  We also had the base of the table sprayed because it's tougher than eggshell paint and the table top was French polished to restore it to its former glory!

The carvers and chairs were recovered in Romo Layton, but in different colours.












The curtain fabric is Sanderson Jamila from the Sojourn collection and I contrast lined them in Ian Sanderson Pippi Stripe.  I chose double pleat headings as they're just a bit more contemporary than triple (French) pleat curtains.  The pole is from The Bradley Collection.

























The lamp is from Cox & Cox and the lampshade is from Pooky Lighting.















We haven't done the rug yet either - might need to take the doors off into the Sitting Room to do that so kind of putting off that job!

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