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5 Unique Ways to Decorate with Handwoven Baskets at Easter

Easter is the perfect opportunity to decorate with handwoven baskets, to celebrate the season. Maybe you've got some handwoven baskets that you'd like to repurpose temporarily as Easter decor. Or perhaps you want some new artisan basketware to beautify your Easter tablescape? Either way, you're in the right place, as our artisanal handwoven baskets are so versatile, you’ll enjoy them for many years to come. Read on for The Basket Room's best ways to decorate with handwoven baskets this Easter.

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10 Best Baskets to Declutter Your Home this January

There is nothing quite like a New Year to inspire us to make the changes we have been thinking of over the past twelve months. It's a fresh start, an opportunity to tackle the January declutter we promised ourselves in November when 2024 seemed like a million years away. But many of us find ourselves asking, where do we start?

Out with the old, in with the new is a popular expression at this time of year, but with our 10 Best Baskets to Declutter Your Home this January, you can hold onto all your beloved knick-knacks, decorations, toys, and accessories while creating a cleaner, more organised home.

Spring Time At The Basket Room

Since our last journal in February, we have been so busy behind the scenes! From launching our SS23 New Collections to processing two container deliveries and fulfilling orders of 4,629 baskets...and that is just in the last three months.

Our Design Journey - How Our SS23 Collections Were Born!

It was early Summer 2022, my co-founder Camilla who heads up production in Kenya had just started her maternity leave to have her beautiful daughter Effie. At the same time our Production Coordinator Peris also went on maternity leave to welcome her daughter Thelma into the world! Tabz who lives in Nairobi had gone through some weeks of intensive training with Camilla and Peris and so was ready to take on the Production Department with myself overseeing and guiding. We were ready for the challenge!

Our Ethical Mother's Day Gift Guide 2023

Choosing Mother’s Day gifts can be tricky. Unlike birthdays and Christmas – where we might be more likely to ask for some hints – there’s more focus on delivering a surprise (and a good one at that) on Mother’s Day. So, we’ve put together a beautiful gift guide of unique and thoughtful Mother’s Day gifts: modern heirlooms she will treasure for years to come.

February Journal

We are always beavering away at our Basket Room HQ in Oxfordshire and our hub in Nairobi. Sometimes there is so much going on we don't know where to start! So here goes...our first monthly journal. We hope you enjoy getting to know us and the team that little bit more...

It feels great to be EIGHT!

Happy birthday to us – oh and what a year it has been! Eight years ago today Holly and Camilla took a little stand at the Country Home & Living Fair and The Basket Room was born. Here’s a quick rundown of some of our milestones over the past twelve months...

ORGANIC MODERN TREND

What many of us are seeking to nurture in our homes (and in our lives) these days is a deeper sense of connection: an understanding of where our things have come from; a more intimate relationship with the materials and the processes – and the people behind them. A slower and more conscious approach to everything from the food we eat to the ways we furnish and run our homes. A return to the earth.
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Woven Summer Essentials for 2022 (and 2023, 2024, 2025...)

Whether you’re hitting up some festivals this summer or holidaying abroad, planning picnics and day trips or a spot of wild camping, there’s a basket for every summer escapade.  Even better, some of these top picks are currently in our summer sale!

Choose Woven Wedding Gifts For Those 'Tying The Knot'

In basket weaving as in love, two single threads are twined to form one strong bond. Now call us biased, but we can’t think of a more meaningful wedding gift than something handwoven. Whether you’re buying for friends or family or creating your own wedding wish list of independent and handmade treasures, here are some suggestions from us…

The Best Woven Basket Bags For Summer 2022 & Beyond!

Like sliding into a pair of espadrilles or putting on your trusty sunglasses, throwing a basket bag over your shoulder feels like a glorious rite of passage every year. And that time has come around once more: the summer season has officially begun, and after two interrupted summers and endless cancelled plans, we (and our basket bags) are back with a bang in 2022!

Meaningful End of Term Gifts for Wonderful Teachers

End of term and the summer holidays are looming, and class Whatsapp groups up and down the country are beginning to discuss thank you gifts for school teachers. For those heroic teachers who have navigated our children through another tricky year of the pandemic, we want to acknowledge their care and commitment with an end of term present that’s truly meaningful and useful, whether it’s a joint present or an individual gift from your family.