Heart and soul
These are a few of our favourite things ... What makes a home? For us at MAK many many many things can make a beautiful home but we can never go past our love of nostalgia. A home filled with the people you love and things that make you happy will always be more welcoming and inviting than any cookie cutter designer show home. There’s no rule when it comes to mixing furniture in your home that it all must come from the same era. Embrace contrasting styles to give your home texture, personality, a heart and soul.
When we style or create a space, we love to mix old pieces with new to construct a space that is unique to you, so it has a story, a memory, a tressure, something that is special. All of us at MAK are magpies! From a young age I was always gathering little trinkets from my grandmother’s houses, saving them up for the day when I would be able to display them in my very own home. I have so much of Grannie’s old eclectic pottery that now is so on trend it looks amazing against a white backdrop. Don’t get me wrong we still love contemporary furnishings and they only keep getting better and better but throw in Grandad’s old chest, or Aunty Dot’s box brownie and you create visual interest that also has a pretty good yarn to go with it.
There is a trick in mixing old with new but it’s not rocket science. It’s as simple as finding something that you love with a history and mixing it with your new pieces. It doesn’t have to be valuable it just has to offer a story. Think about shapes, groupings, heights and levels to create balance in a room or for a display. For example, old books stacked on top of each other on a console table balance them out with a vase or bowl of a similar height or shape opposite them. When you style think about creating groups of similar shapes, varying heights so that each grouping of objects mimic each other in shape and size to create a sense of balance!
In modern spaces, play off the clean architectural lines by mixing in these special preloved pieces throughout that feel worn and lived in to create harmony. “Sometimes the less things seem to go together, the more they end up complimenting each other”.
