Etsy: Our Top 10 Homewares

If you noticed our Facebook post yesterday (yes, the eccentric Lionel Richie tea set), you would have realized we love a quirky homeware or two. We are all about generating comfortable, flowing conversation around the home and unconventional, custom or hand-made pieces do just that.

Etsy is the ultimate place to find home-wares that are peculiar and unorthodox without having to scour markets and boutiques or battle chaotic shopping centers with two point five kids and a hubby dragging along beside you! You can relax and browse through at your leisure.

What is Etsy exactly?
Etsy is a social commerce website focusing on handmade items and art, along with an interesting collection of authentic vintage pieces. Etsy is the place where indie artists utilise a streamlined process to get their designs out into the world. With options to 'share', 'tweet', 'pin' and 'like' - the artists ultimately have free marketing! (so remember, when you spot something on Etsy - share it around... Give these clever artisans a hit of exposure)

Mind you, setting ourselves up to choose only 10 homewares is daunting at the best of times; but we managed to narrow it down these eclectic works of art.

Enjoy.

- O&O


10. Reclaimed Timber Bedhead

Weather beaten timbers are milled from dead standing trees found locally in Lake Tahoe, the salvaged material is collected from the Sierra Nevada mountains and surrounding areas. And transformed into environmentally-conscious pieces.

9. Knitted Floor Cushions

This colorful hand knitted cushions are made from recycled cotton yarn and have a non allergic filling. And the creator will custom make to your color preference!

8. Colour Trend Cushions

Trina’s replicas fashioned color trends into a beautiful array of cushions and pillows. I don't doubt that she would also custom make to the size you desire. Available for indoor and outdoor use. We are in love with the highly trending yellow and grey Navajo design below... I'll take 5!

7. Vintage Bunting

This delicate lace bunting is ideal for decoration in a classic children's room, as part of party and wedding styling or even in a boho style home with feminine, graceful lighting. deal vintage style wedding decorations! Made from poly/cotton, this designer again will custom make sizing to suit your needs... And what a bargain price!

6. Scottish Wool Cushions

Beautifully hand-made cushions, using 100% Scottish wool and finest quality linen. Hand screen printed by a professinal, we love this truly unique design.

5. Lionel Richie Tea Set

You may have noticed this piece on our Facebook page a day or two ago, and here it is again. We simply couldn't resist showing you where to pick up this little classic teapot set. This handmade teapot and cup set is such a unique creation, the design for the Lionel Richie artwork on this mug was created by Tony, from the blog Creative Dad.

4. Personalised Coat Rails

Custom made to the name of your choice, yet not so unique that it would look out of place on a modern interior wall. It's simple, useful and made just for you!

3. Hand Blown Glass Pendants
As you may have noticed on our past posts, we adore organic handblown glass. The Muse Collection pictured below, represents a set of unique designs in various shades and shapes.

2. Travel Photography

Over the last 10 years, Rebecca Plotnick has explencounter dark room and digital techniques and encouragse people to "linger over the beauty of life a little longer." (Which we could do, all day long when looking at her beautiful images!). While much of her work has been based on scenes from her local farmer's market in Chicago, she has been expanding her portfolio of travel photography with recent trips to Italy, England, Israel and most recently Paris. Stunning.

1. Pendant Lights

The translucence of these tissue pendants have such a beautiful effect on the warm light glowing through them. Using hundreds and hundreds of tissue rounds to create a dense, round ball of light.

Each piece of tissue is individually hand cut and applied to a round paper lamp base. The result is a soft glow that invites the hand to touch. Oh-so-pretty.