Coastal Style Home Accessories

Coastal Style Interiors

Coastal style home accessories echo the colours of the seaside. Soft, tonal blues and greens mingle with neutral shades evocative of sand, pebbles and driftwood. Coastal style home accessories are perfect for seaside homes. They’re also a great way to bring that coastal living feel to your home, even if you don’t live by the sea. Sparrow Primitives offer a range of coastal home accessories, which we’ve brought together in this coastal themed collection.

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Union Jack Home Accessories

Union Jack Decorations For The Home

Union Jack home accessories work well with any interior, and the iconic design is a timeless classic. Union Jack home accessories are an ideal way to add a bold design element into your home, without overwhelming an otherwise neutral palette. We’ve created this collection from the range of home accessories available at Sparrow Primitives, making it easy for you to find Union Jack home accessories you’ll love. Union Jack home accessories are a fabulous way to decorate for a street party or garden party, as well as adding classic style your home. Why not string Union Jack bunting around a garden umbrella or tree branches? Hand painted Union Jack wall art is perfect for turning plain wall into a feature.

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Handmade Gifts Guide – Top 5 Valentines Presents

Unique and original romantic handmade gifts for Valentine’s Day.

Stuck for original gift ideas for Valentine’s Day? Why not take a look at our handmade gift guide featuring favourite picks from Sparrow Primitives™. Each gift idea can be made to order in your choice of colours, adding great flexibility to create the perfect romantic present for your loved one. The video shows a larger selection of the range, which can be found here in the Handmade Valentine’s, Wedding & Anniversary Gifts category. All of the handmade gifts featured here are handcrafted in Britain.

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Eco-Friendly Vintage Household Uses For Salt

Vintage Saltcellar
A charming vintage saltcellar.

I’ve been browsing through the vintage scrapbook I found and so, as the tips have proved popular, I thought I’d share some more with you today. Today’s tips feature another kitchen staple – salt.

Weeds Growing In A Brick Garden Path
Weeds growing between bricks can be a nuisance and ruin the look of your garden path.

Many of us are plagued by weeds coming up between paving slabs in our gardens or on our driveways. I am always looking out for a more environmentally friendly solution to chemical herbicides (which I never use) and was delighted to find this use for salt. Place 200g of salt into 400ml of water and bring to the boil. Once boiling, take and pour directly on to the weeds. If you have small children or pets underfoot and don’t want to carry boiling salty water around, you can pour the salt (minus the boiling water) directly on to the weeds coming up between the cracks and allow the rain to soak the salt. Continue reading

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Vintage Household Hints & Tips

I have been looking through the vintage scrapbook I recently found and I am amazed at the hints and tips collected in it. We have a lot to learn about the multiple uses for ordinary items found in every home – and even more about items we would nowadays discard as rubbish! However I am not focusing on refuse today, but good old peanut butter amongst other things! Peanut butter is the staple of many a kitchen and in fact, one of my children would eat nothing but peanut butter and jam (jelly) sandwiches for years :) Most people tend to think of Peanut Butter as a modern invention but in fact, the Aztecs made their version of a peanut paste centuries ago. Our present day version of peanut butter was patented in the late 1890s, which will explain it’s appearance in my old scrapbook. Continue reading

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