Coulson Macleod vis­ited their first wed­ding venue this morning.

And we think it’s perfect.

Here’s a sneak peek of Dod­moor House…

Con­ver­ted barns. Private court­yard. Flag­stones. Bare brick walls. Very rus­tic. Very Coulson Macleod.

What do you think?

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Coulson Macleod Is All Loved Up

Great art­icle in the Sunday Tele­graph a few weeks back that said we should be very excited, because this sea­son is all about the tra­di­tional, mixed with flea-market finds.

And we love flea-market finds. Which is why at Coulson Macleod we try to recre­ate this with many of our art collections.

Hand­made. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Dis­tressed typography.

The key theme for the autumn/winter 2010 interior is “heir­loom”. The art­icle says we’re crav­ing time­less pieces that will look just as good a dec­ade or two down the line, and retail­ers are grant­ing our wish with hand­made accessor­ies using tra­di­tional fabrics.

Which is exactly what we at Coulson Macleod are doing.

We com­mis­sion local crafts­men to hand­make our dis­tressed typo­graphic prints. We com­bine their tra­di­tional skills with our con­tem­por­ary art. So again, we’re bang on trend!

One of the com­pan­ies high­lighted in the piece is Anta, who we fea­tured back in August. Anta has been a per­sonal love of mine for many years. In fact, here is my col­lec­tion of their slightly wonky, hand­painted, stone­ware mugs…

Related art­icles:

• Failte. That’s Wel­come To You And Me.
• Two Two’s Are?
• Freeze, Freeze Thou Bit­ter Sky

Want to intro­duce you to the amaz­ing work of Christina Looker and Alissa Ross (a lovely Face­book friend) who run Made u Look, wedding/engagement pho­to­graph­ers based in Cali­for­nia. I’m so in love with their style.

Please let me live in their world…

And do check out their blog too… gorgeous.

Any­one who reg­u­larly reads our blog will no doubt have real­ised that we love a bit of vin­tage. And we just came across a fab store in Ams­ter­dam called Neef Louis (found via blog 26 Olive Street)

If you can’t get to Ams­ter­dam, then have a rum­mage around their great web­site.

Coulson Macleod loves vin­tage apple crates. But Coulson Macleod didn’t need vin­tage apple crates. Until now…

We are now happy own­ers of six won­der­ful crates, also known as bushel boxes. I have no idea when ours date from, each one is dif­fer­ent. So if any­one knows of this com­pany Swann Mor­ton of Wis­bech (I had a quick search on Google but couldn’t find any­thing) then do let us know. It’s fun know­ing the proven­ance of items.

They are really rather heavy, and are going to make superb props in our photo shoot.

Coulson Macleod’s latest col­lec­tion of lim­ited edi­tion prints… Calm Britannia

Dis­tressed Union Jack flags prin­ted onto nat­ural, coarse-weave, unbleached linen and then encased in a chunky sand­wich of reclaimed wood.

Three dif­fer­ent quotes.

Each print costs £169.

The frames are all hand­made using reclaimed antique Vic­torian roof tim­bers. We’re totally lov­ing all the nat­ural defects in the tim­ber too, they just ooze charm and char­ac­ter. Bring on the knot holes, nail holes, warps, and water marks!

We’ve fallen head-over-heels in love with these prints. So unique. And we par­tic­u­larly enjoy see­ing the linen slightly waft when you open a door!

Very excited over our new pur­chase and thought I’d share it with you.  We were rum­ma­ging in a junk shop yes­ter­day and came across this vin­tage bottle crate…

This bottle crate is from Arnold, Per­rett & Co. Ltd, a brew­ery in Gloucester­shire that was foun­ded in 1820. Arnold, Per­rett & Co. ceased brew­ing in 1924. The site is now used by Wick­war Brew­ery.

Not sure how old this crate is, but it doesn’t date to any earlier than 1887 (that’s when the com­pany changed its name to the ver­sion on the crate).

The best thing about our new crate is that the super­mar­ket plastic herb pots fit exactly into the bottle slots. I’m off to buy 11 more tubs of mint for a fant­astic win­dow planter.

Coulson Macleod now offers a per­son­al­iz­a­tion service.

Coulson Macleod bespoke art. Per­fect wed­ding gift.

The bespoke piece has to based on these best-selling prints from our Love Collection:

Simply pick a sim­ilar num­ber of words and sen­tences that you want to incor­por­ate, and we do the rest, res­ult­ing in a one-off piece of bespoke art­work that’s totally per­sonal to you.

An ideal gift for someone get­ting mar­ried or a wed­ding anniversary.

Our bespoke prints cost £249.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art

The per­fect gift for Valentine’s Day.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion (x 250) vintage-style typo­graphic art print. £199.

Free deliv­ery within the UK.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art

The per­fect gift for Valentine’s Day.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion (x 250) vintage-style typo­graphic art print. £199.

Free deliv­ery within the UK.