end of financial year – The Interiors Addict

EOFY homewares sales: grab a bargain this week

You can’t beat EOFY for an excuse to treat yourself to a homewares bargain and, if like us, you find yourself in Sydney lockdown, you probably don’t need much talking into a little gift to self regardless! So here’s few goodies we’ve spotted!

Angus and Celeste create beautiful contemporary ceramic and porcelain pots, planters, and tableware. If you’re looking for new homes for your green plants and a way to brighten up and decorate your life, head on over to their Imperfects Sale while stocks last.

After 11 years, creative design studio Evie Group are saying goodbye to their product collection as they transition into a graphic design studio. Enjoy 50-to-70% off the last of their award-winning pieces ranging from homewares, lighting and small furniture.

The Sheet Society have up to 30% off a wide range of bed linen until tomorrow (Wednesday).

Leaf Supply are still delivering (safely) around the Sydney area and you can get 20% off pot and plant packs with the code LOCKITDOWN20.

Create the home you love with Tilly Living‘s EOFY storewide sale. Save a further 15% off when you use the promo code EOFY15 at checkout.

Originally $296 and reduced to $166, with the promo code you can get the Acacia Wood Serving Trays for $138.55!

Sagitine make storage stylish and from 5pm tonight (Tuesday 29 June) they’re having a 48-hour 20% off flash sale.

Valid until Wednesday (30 June), Koala Eco will give 20% off your entire cart plus a sample size of Laundry Wash with each delivery. All products are plant-based and made with Australian essential oils. Use the promo code JUNE20 when you check out.

Sage and Clare have decent discounts on a large range of linen, pyjamas, cushions and more while stocks last.

Need help getting started on a decorating project you’ve been thinking about? Or do you need some one-off design advice on areas that you are stuck on? Interior designers Hayward and Co. are offering their initial consult for $195 instead of $220. Their e-decorating online design packages have also been reduced for the first time ever. The online design package includes personalised concept board, floor plan, shopping list, and design notes.

Thinking of renovating or building? You can currently save more than 50% on BuildHer Collective’s popular online course.

LANGDON LTD have an EOFY sale with 30% off storewide. Discount applied at checkout.

Brosa see 180% increase in furniture sales since Covid

There’s no denying that COVID-19 has pulled our focus onto our homes and furniture retailer BROSA is living proof, with a massive spike in sales and social media followers since…

New financial year resolutions and the last 12 months

I love a new start. I always LOVED getting a new pencil case for the new school year and starting off a new notebook with the neatest handwriting. Ring any bells? So I love the chance to start afresh that a new year brings, as well as the opportunity to look back over the previous one, celebrate successes and identify weaknesses to improve on going forward. Being a business owner, I now do this twice a year; in January with everyone else, when I usually vow to lose weight/eat better/sleep more/read more, spend less on shoes etc, and then again in July, when, as a new financial year starts (on my birthday), I assess and make promises to myself about my business life.

So, it’s been my first full financial year as a self-employed business owner and it’s been a massive one. I’m looking back with a lot of pride but also full of ideas and hopes for 2014/15. So, what did I achieve this year? I took on my first employee, I made more money than I did in a year in my previous job as an employee, and I proved that it is possible, with the right technology and the right support team, to run your business (well, my business) from anywhere. Traffic, which is the big indicator of success as a blogger has climbed and climbed and last month, happily, saw my biggest month ever, with more than a quarter of a million page impressions and more than 85,000 unique browsers in just 30 days (Did I mention I’m big on transparency? No fudging figures here!). It still blows my mind, believe me.

We now post four times per day Monday to Friday (this figure was sometimes only once a day a year ago). We had three reader events, all sellouts with wait lists (ok, they were free to attend, but you get the point). On a more personal note, I was honoured to help ghost write interior designer Greg Natale’s book, The Tailored Interior, due out in November.

So, this now brings me to what I’d like to achieve in the next 12 months (and I do feel a little anxious about publishing it to the world here)! I’m a great believer in the power of accountability, so I like to put these things out there so other people know about them and to keep myself on track too. Write this stuff down, people! Don’t just keep it in your head!

I’d like to increase unique browsers to more than 100,000 per month, I’m going to open an online store selling homewares, which will be attached to the blog (there’s been a lot going on behind the scenes on that front for months!) and we’re going to have even more events and take them to places other than Sydney and Melbourne, due to popular demand. I’m also going to give you video content (I said this last year and didn’t follow through, sorry!) and I want us to start posting seven days a week, every week. And, of course, I want to make more money!

I’d also like to sleep more (I do believe this is related to my work life as well as my personal life), I’d like to switch off from my constant connection to the internet one night per week (let’s keep it realistic!) and I’d like to get better at, and more organised with, the financial and accounting side of running a business.

There’s a part of me that cannot wait to get back to Australia and back to working full-time. Bring it on, 2014/15, I’m ready for you!

What are YOUR business goals for the next financial year? Do you make them? Do you write them down and tell other people about them?