Autumn/Winter Pantone Trends

This season’s colours are quite different from what we saw in the last one with a lot of pastel colours. Light pink and light blue were the colours every interior designer got their hands on. There are three words which come to our minds when looking at this year’s Autumn / Winter Pantone colour trends: strength, confidence and complexity! This new trend is led by the blue family. Along with anchoring earth tones and lively pops of vibrant colours appearing throughout the collection.

If you’d like to give your home a splash of colour to overcome the grey days, the new colours will be your best friend this fall. Bodacious, spicy mustard, potters clay, aurora red, sharkskin, riverside, lush meadow, warm taupe, airy blue and dusty cedar – a mix of warm tones. Each colour has its own kind of vibe, transforming those plain, boring, white walls into a cosy Autumn home.

The Scandinavian style is still very popular and became a real classic in interior decoration.Though if we’re being honest, it’s too cool for the long Winter days, where you just need a bit of cosiness and warmth when you get home from work. When you’re spending most of your days at home anyway, there’s no better feeling than having a home you’re happy with.

How to implement the colours in your home?

The ten colours are each quite special in their own way. Therefore, we advise you to mix them with neutral colours, such as white or black. For the lovers of very colourful decoration, spicy mustard will be the perfect match to bodacious or potters clay. If you like it a little more subtle, you can combine warm taupe and dusty cedar as both are quite neutral tones. Sharkskin is a light grey tone, which would work well with more vibrant colours like riverside, airy blue or even aurora red.

Enough talking, we’ve collected some inspirational pictures for each one of the ten Autumn / Winter Pantone colours to give you an idea of how they would look and how to implement them for your home.

Bodacious

Potter’s Clay

Spicy Mustard

Lush Meadow

Dusty Cedar

Warm Taupe

Aurora Red

Riverside

Airy Blue

Sharkskin

Honeymoon Trip to the Maldives & Dubai

I recently got back from my two-week honeymoon in the Maldives and Dubai and I would love to tell you all about it and share some images from my trip!

Now, this is a trip I have been looking forward to for over a year! I got married to my (now) wife of 5 years at the beginning of September and to say the planning was a joint effort would be a little bit of an overstatement as I had literally done absolutely nothing. Stone and Wood Shop keeps me an extremely busy boy so planning a wedding and running a business was never going to be a reality. However, I did have a chance to plan and book our dream honeymoon (to make up for the fact she did all the planning!) and we set off on the Wednesday after the wedding for our two-week break.

We flew out from Gatwick airport in the afternoon and began our journey to Dubai and then connected onto the Male airport in the Maldives, where after a very groggy night flight, we were met by a very attentive chap from the hotel who boarded us onto our boat to the island where we would be spending the next eight nights. Upon arriving, we were blown away by the sheer beauty of the surrounding islands and reefs. After checking into our beachfront hut, we took a leisurely stroll around the entire island, which only took 20 minutes. Living in London, you very easily get distracted by the hustle and bustle of it all, so being plucked out of it for a while makes you appreciate there’s a world out there waiting to be explored. For our entire stay, we were constantly surprised by the service from the amazing locals, the food and the scenery (even when it rained)! I also managed to start up a video blog when the missus wasn’t looking but that’s for another time.

Maledives

After an exhausting 8 nights of not doing much, it was time to head to Dubai mid-morning for the final leg of our trip and I must say, it being my first time, Dubai is something you all have to see even if it’s not your cup of tea. A city, which has been built from the sand in the space of 30 years, is a marvel of engineering and planning. Being in the construction game for as long as I have really highlighted the speed at which they’re building and developing. In sheer difference to the Maldives, Dubai is all about the show and how big you can do it, from the buildings to the cars, from clothing brands to food, it has absolutely everything a billionaire playboy (or girl) needs to live the most opulent lifestyle… a far cry from what we could afford but still worth a look. We enjoyed afternoon tea at the Burj Al Arab, the Souk in the old city as well as the newer ones and finished off the trip with a visit up the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, as well as enjoying one of my favourite past times of smoking shisha and eating cake!

I have to say this trip really was a once in a lifetime holiday and one I don’t think I’ll be doing for a very, very, very long time, it’s a good thing I’ve got lots of pictures to remind me… some of which I would love to share with you.

Maldives

Maldives

Dubai

Dubai

Dubai

Dubai