THE APPLE ORCHARD

The Apple Orchard is a lovely interiors and home wares boutique shop in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. My little sister goes to university in High Wycombe so it is just far too tempting to pay this little shop a visit when ever we go to see her. Every possible place to hang a heart or surface to stand a candle on has been filled-a mans hell, a woman's heaven!!

The shop is divided in to two 17th century buildings and many of its features have been kept, including the low ceilings and classic beams. In total there are 13 showrooms full of fine furniture and almost this are lots of little gifts. In fact most of the hearts on my 'Heart Wall' post are from this shop. 

http://theappleorchard.com

WALL OF HEARTS

I have a rather unhealthy growing collection of hanging hearts that I have hoarded from birthdays, presents, impulse buys etc for years! After having recently moved back home this became apparent and I decided to make a eclectic arrangement of hearts on one of my very plain walls. The inspiration was taken from clusters of photo frames on walls-a recent interior craze which has taken off. 

Originally all of my walls were white with just one feature wall being a floral in soft purples. Laura Ashley-Mauve Kimono to be exact. For a few weeks I pottered about with every possible colour sample of purple trying to match the shade of wall paper at the same time as standing out enough without being to dominating. Eventually I settled with a Dulux pot of purple. 

Lampshade 2

Originally I made this design up as wallpaper but

then decided to cut it up and make it into a lamp.

 The base for the lampshades are old bits of

drift wood, picked up from Orwell Shore.



Wallpaper 5

This wallpaper is the same as Wallpaper 2, but here 

I changed the colour scheme to light grey on to dark

grey and off set every other collum. 



Chair for my Final Major Project

The pattern on the chair is based on Lichen found on trees.

I cut the repeated design out of newsprint and screenprinted

it on to hand died fabric.

I picked this chair up from a junk shop for £3, brought it

home and cleaned the paint up then using a sander I distressed

sections of the paint to create a used look. Then I pulled off the

old fabric covering and turned the chair upside down and using 

upholstery nails I attached the fabric in place.

Wallpaper 3 & 4

Wallpaper 2

This is a length of wallpaper printed in neutral 

colours using a lino cut, which I think adds

some interest with the distressed lines.

Wallpaper 1

Lampshade 1

As part of my Final major show for College, I plan 

to create a range of fabrics and wallpapers sticking to a theme

of Circles. 

This lampshade is going to be part of a set of 3.

I made this lampshade by dying cotton fabric a light grey 

with a hint of purple, and I also dyed some cotton pink which is the 

circles underneath the pattern, which was created by

a lino print.