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Emerald Green Reigns Supreme

Make home your very own sanctuary of calm and balance, with organic and verdant shades of emerald green. Because our brains naturally associate green with the great outdoors, bringing green accents into your home can have a deeply calming effect… and my gosh, we all need a bit of that these days.

Eight Top Plant Parenthood Tips for #NationalHouseplantWeek

Bring joy, colour and texture to your desk, shelf or kitchen table with beautiful woven planters and hanging planters filled with spring bulbs, cacti or green and glossy houseplants. We've got a planter for every corner of the home, and you can now search by size, and colour!

6 Gorgeous Gifts for Goddaughters

Choosing the perfect gifts for your friends’ children or your godchildren - even grown up ones - at Christmas can be a conundrum. There’s often the feeling that a ‘godparent gift’ ought to be something a little more special – more meaningful and lasting – than other presents they might find under the Christmas tree. (This is where we resist the urge to go off on a tangent about how ALL Christmas gifts ought to be meaningful and lasting, but we'll come back to that again soon...)

Seven things to be hopeful and thankful for on our seventh birthday

Seven years ago, Camilla and Holly took a small set of painted shelves to Seldedge Winter Fair in London, stacked with colorful and unique woven baskets – the entire Basket Room on a tabletop - which sold like hotcakes.

Christmas shoppers were enchanted by the colours and the patterns, and most of all the rich and transparent stories behind these very special baskets.

There was no premises or warehouse back then; no wholesale partners or even employees: just a box room for storage, laptops on kitchen tables and some big, big dreams...

CABIN FEVER! At Home With Imrich Lodge

Imrich Lodge - Highland home to Nicky, Grizz and Molly the terrier - caught our eye on Instagram a while ago. We're scrolling interiors accounts on Instagram on an almost hourly basis for work, and Imrich Lodge is one of those rare jewels that stops you in your tracks and ignites curiosity. What IS this place? We fell in love with this Scottish log cabin's cosy, rustic and handcrafted interiors. Imrich Lodge appeals deeply to our longing for escapism - it almost seems folklorish - but also shows you that you can make your own creative escape within your own four walls.

16 WOVEN PET BASKETS YOUR CATS AND DOGS WILL LOVE FOREVER

Can't handle the cuteness! There is nothing our followers love more than seeing pictures of pets in woven baskets, so we thought we'd bring together some of our absolute favourite customer snaps of their beautiful dog baskets, dogs IN baskets, basket cats and even one cheeky duck in a woven picnic basket. Enjoy!

A LUSH Christmas

The warehouse this week is bursting with a large delivery of sisal baskets with the word LUSH printed on their cotton tags. So we thought it was about time we spilled the beans on this two-year relationship that’s been flourishing behind the scenes, between The Basket Room and LUSH. As collabs go, LUSH couldn’t have been a better match for us: colourful, natural, kind and progressive, with people and the planet at the centre of all that they do.

Catch The Basket Room at ECOFeminism Film Festival

ECOFeminism Festival celebrates nature, women and their empowering connection, and so we're delighted that our short film will be shown alongside 15 other inspiring documentaries and works of drama at Genesis Cinema in Bethnal Green this Saturday.

WABI SABI STYLE: LUXURY IN IMPERFECTION

This is a philosophy for calm, imperfect living: the complete antithesis of fast interiors and flash-in-the-pan interior trends. So the choices that you make as you wabi-sabi your home should be sustainable ones based on comfortable, practical living and well-made, timeless pieces that bring joy. Here's how to bring some of this mindset to your home.

Six Log Baskets for Cosy Living

With autumn just around the corner now, our thoughts are gently turning to cosier nights and to retreating indoors for the colder months. For those of us lucky enough to have an open fireplace, log burning stove or wood burner at home, a handwoven log basket would make a beautiful, versatile and practical addition to your hearth.

SHOW YOUR STRIPES

'Stripes bring order and structure to a space and have the ability to redirect the eye. When incorporated into an interior scheme, they inject a dose of understated elegance and sophistication.'

- Roselind Wilson

Deckchairs, tartan picnic rugs, beach huts, gingham tablecloths, lighthouses, circus big tops - it's no wonder that checks and stripes make us feel good.

Image credit: Homes & Gardens

Artysan Trend for a Brave New World

The pandemic has left a deep, permanent imprint in our lives and in our homes. In the absence of new experiences and discoveries, we’ve redrawn our boundaries and sought adventure much closer to home. Our homes have always been our castles but for many of us they have for the first time become symbols of self-expression...

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