This vibrant veg salad bowl is a much quirky addition to the Linea range.
Instead of the very contemporary looking designs I often associate with that range, the brightly coloured illustrations on this stoneware salad bowl give it a retro feel. It reminds me of the neat 1970s designs of Gemuse by Graziela among other things, and hopefully similar items will be added to the range.
Snap this design up quickly before it goes – it costs £20.
Buy it from House of Fraser
The 1950s Scandinavian designs from New House Textiles are frequently featured on this site. The newest additions to their shop take in a more traditionally British direction with a contemporary collection from Charlotte Farmer which includes this Family Favourites tea towel.
The illustration on the tea towel celebrates the rich biscuit heritage of this country with a selection including a malted milk, a Tunnocks tea cake and a party ring. You're sure to find your personal favourite on there. Take a look at the rest of her collection – which also includes canvas bags – for more biscuits, as well as cakes, cutlery and snow globes.
This tea towel costs £9.50.
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We’ve featured Olli and Lime’s nursery products here before (duvet covers, wallpaper and wall art) and I’ve always thought their designs are wasted just kept for children. So I’m pleased to see that they expanded to include two of their designs as Kitchen Collections.
George, a lime and milk chocolate flower-like design (pictured here) and Charlie, a darker brown and mustard circles pattern, are both available on a range of kitchen textiles. You can have your napkins (£25 for four) table runner (£35), tea towels (£15 for a pair) and apron (£25) all in matching fabric.
I’m hoping that more products will follow and I’d like to see their range extended to include grown-up sized bedding, but for now, you can buy their kitchen collection from the Olli and Lime website.
We've featured Lisa Stickley's retro inspired goods for the home previously and now her designs are available on a much wider scale with her new range for Debenhams.
Sometimes referred to as the new Cath Kidston (you can compare and contrast the cake tin above with Cath's tins here), her products are also inspired by vintage florals. Add in a dash of old-fashioned typography, and contrast with black and other bright colours and the results are the finishing touch for a retro kitchen. The range includes everything from milk jugs and cake stands to aprons and oven gloves.
Prices for the range start at £3.50 for an egg cup with this cake tin costing £12.
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It's always satisfying to get original art into your home. Even better if it's affordable too. Something of an artistic bargain then are these mini prints by Alice Apple.
Alice Apple's name may sound familiar as we've featured some of her colourfully decorated mugs in the past. This print shows the same love of pattern, illustrating a kitchen scene surely worthy of Orla Kiely and a 60s/70s feel. The print is very small – just postcard sized – but as it comes in four different colour ways, you could invest in all four and make a larger feature of them.
And you can afford to do that too, as the print costs just $5. That's approximately £3.29 using the handy new Etsy converter.
Buy it from her Etsy store
Remember the Pet Sounds wallpaper we featured a little while back? Well, if you liked that pattern but weren't quite brave enough to cover your walls with it, thankfully Mini Moderns have reproduced the same design on the Pet Sounds tea towel.
It's the same folky, weird wonderfulness, just on a much smaller scale, meaning you can now dry your designs, inspired by the apparent musical talents of the animal kingdom.
And, of course, it's much cheaper too. This tea towel costs only £8.
Buy it from To Dry For
