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Feliz: organic and luxuriously fresh bedding

The second collection of bed linen, cushions and prints from Feliz is simply gorgeous. Filled with pastels, watercolour and embroidery, the whole range is the embodiment of organic and luxurious freshness. And looking at the beautifully styled photos below, I’m very envious of anyone who gets to calls that their bed!

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Created via a mix of both screen printing and embroidery, everything is produced locally, something that is very important to owners Jane Forbes and Melissa Alessi. “What we do feels light years from mass production,” says Jane. “But it is the handmade aspect that we love and want to preserve.”

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With this notion in mind, the duo decided to also create a kids range, which saw them use timeless images like bikes and SLR cameras, believing these objects need to be preserved. “We live in a digital world but bikes and cameras weren’t meant to be nostalgic,” explains Jane. “They’re fun, synonymous with youth. Bikes never lose their cool and we hope kids will always be able to identify cameras, skipping ropes, hoola hoops and vinyl records.”

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The adult range is also seeing Feliz go off in a new direction, with this second collection seeing the addition of both an embroidery and watercolour design. The end result is soft and striking, with an understated simplicity and versatility, that between you and me, I desperately want to get my hands on!

Shop Feliz online.

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Cotton On KIDS are back with a second linen and bedroom range!

After a hugely successful initial collection earlier this year, Cotton On KIDS are back with a second linen and bedroom range. It’s wonderful and just quietly, I’m a little excited that the linen goes up to queen size!

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Due to hit stores and online in late September, one half of the design duo behind Cotton On KIDS, Sarah Lawrence, says customers can expect to see a range of fresh new styles including soft pastels, polkadots and tassels for girls and bright block colours, bold zigzags and stripes for boys.

“The new collection houses a fabulous range of bed linen including colourful sprinkle sheets and loads of fun new cushions that will look equally as fabulous with the first range as they do with other styles in this new drop,” explains Sarah. “We have also focused more on bedroom decor in this collection with geometric-print lanterns, tulle-covered fairy lights, statement garlands and brightly coloured wall stickers in all shapes and sizes.”

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Designed to be mixed and matched, the range aims to inspire kids and parents to re-create their bedrooms and turn them into a sanctuary where they can sleep, dream, play and have fun. The 100 percent cotton linen range is available in a variety of designs suitable for single, double and queen size beds, ensuring everyone in the house including toddlers, teens, and even the big kids (me!) can have fun revamping their bedrooms with fun, bright and on-trend styles.

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Prices start at $6.95 for a wall sticker pack through to $69.95 for a queen doona cover, making it an affordable option for growing families.

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High quality kids’ linen without the high price tag

If you like high quality but affordable kids’ bed linen and pyjamas (who doesn’t?!) with a more classic feel, new online brand Hickory Hill Home is for you.

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Specialising in natural fabrics and timeless designs – think seersuckers, ginghams, linens and cashmere — these bedroom goodies can be mixed and matched to create beautiful bedroom sanctuaries.

Coming in muted tones of pinks, blues, taupes and greys, co-founders Edwina Wills and Gendy Parry-Okeden decided to start creating kids bedding after struggling to find products that matched their personal aesthetic.

“The only things available had bold and brassy colours or were covered in busy motifs – neither of which suited our styles,” explains Gendy. “
So we created our own.”

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Determined to meet the demand of the Australian consumer, who may otherwise look overseas for cheaper premium products, the duo set out to design durable and affordable bed linen and accessories.

“We want to provide beautiful products without the high pricing or the overseas shipping fees,” says Edwina. “Good quality, stylish basics at affordable prices. We think there is a real gap in the market.”

With a junior and baby range, bedding comes in cot, single, king single and double size with the pyjamas fitting newborns to ten-year olds and for now, there’s even a limited edition size for mum!

Shop online.

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Exclusive first look at Kip & Co’s new kids bedding

As Kip & Co co-owner Kate Heppell puts it: “We’re not trying to be the sophisticated kids bedding company, or even the cute or the pretty, we just want to make a spunky fun kids bedding range.” And boy, do they nail that brief.

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Kate, along with her sister Hayley Pannekoecke and her best friend Alex van der Sluys, make up the Kip & Co team. Founded in 2012 they also design bold and beautiful adults bedding, but it’s their new kids range, that we got an exclusive first look at, that has really got our attention.

A particular favourite is the scribble print, “the kids version of the polka dot,” which was drawn by Hayley’s then four-year-old daughter, Chloe.

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“We had kind of tried a scribble print before but we had never thought to say to a child can you have a little play for us,” explains Kate. “So Chloe did all these scribbles for us and we just ended up doing this big repeat of them. We didn’t want it to be age specific, just fun and colourful.”

It is this type of collaboration that sees Kate favour designing for kids over adults, and having a child herself and Hayley having three, means there’s always a little person to bounce ideas off.

“We definitely do a lot of testing with our kids,” says Kate. “Showing them drawings and prints throughout the design process. Chloe in particular is definitely our inspiration, she is a great sounding board.”

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Other kids prints featured in the range include a reversible bedspread with a pizza print on one side and a psychedelic candystripe on the other, as well some deep coloured velvets with cotton backings.

And if you’re wishing you could turn back the clock so you too could enjoy the lovely bedding, no need, the kids prints are also available for adults!

The new designs launch today. To shop online and get a list of local stockists visit Kip & Co here.

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Cotton On Kids branch into homewares with first kids bed linen and room range

Cotton on Kids will launch one of its most exciting product categories yet on Monday — its first children’s bed linen and room range.

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The 100% cotton bed linen is available in a range of designs suitable for single, double and queen size beds, ensuring there is something for toddlers to teens, and even the big kids in the house who share the same passion for fun, bright, fashion-driven prints!

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The collection includes a range of stylish and fun sheet sets, reversible quilt covers and cushions, printed paper lanterns, removable chalkboards and other decorative accessories. All styles are designed to be mixed and matched, inviting kids and parents to explore their creative side and transform any bedroom into a space to dream, play, sleep, invent and, most importantly, have fun.

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The concept for the new range was born after Cotton On Kids design duo, Peta Baldacchino and Sarah Lawrence, discovered they shared a common frustration about the lack of affordable, fun and stylish homewares in the kids market. “The aim was to steer away from traditional girl and boy bedding options to ensure there was a combination of bright colours, fun patterns and most importantly, a collection that kids and parents will both love,” Sarah says.

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The pair were inspired by simple Scandinavian children’s designs, and then added the Cotton On Kids touch by adding a pop of colour here, there and everywhere.

The range launches online and in store on Monday 7 April 2014. Prices start at $19.95 for a single fitted sheet through to $69.95 for a queen doona cover.