{Habitat A/W09 preview}

Oh, how we adore this store. Lucky enough to lay our hands on some preview images of Habitat's new Autumn/Winter collection, we decided to put them straight up on Bright.Bazaar. This collection looks set to continue the current trend for bright, block colours. The Umi table, shown below, screams personality and vibrancy - especially in that gorgeous red, which is offset by the buttercup yellow Bobby floor lamp.

What products do you like? Are you a fan of the current trend for bright, block colours?

Images: Habitat

{New season preview: Next}

Next's homeware ranges have been coming into their own over the past few seasons. Their new Autumn/Winter collection looks set to continue in this fashion, offering some great value buys for your home. Here's our pick, room-by-room, of the best value buys this season from high street and catalogue store, Next:

//Bedroom//

//Bathroom//

//Kitchen//

//Accessories//

Images: Next

{Oh, the glamour}

Over at Bright.Bazaar we love a shopping trip to Heals; there's something so decadent and indulgent about their stores. Perhaps it's because they are always filled with sumptuous textiles, quirky accessories and to-die-for furniture. Or, maybe, we're falling into the same trap as Rebbecca Bloomwood from Sophie Kinsella's famous shopaholic novels - either way, we don't care because Heals rocks!

A splash of hot pink has allowed Heals to inject colour and warmth into their A/W 09 collection

We've been watching as more of the Autumn/Winter range filters into stores and simply can't wait any longer to write about how much we love their new stuff. Check it out...

Swing Chaise - it rotates 180 degrees to form a double bed! £1195; Daphne Tables by Johnny Egg - Coffee Table, £595 & Lamp Table, £350

Louis Console Table, in blue lacquer by John Reeves, £695; Brights Turned Wood Table Lamp, £165; Flocked Indigo Phone by Johnny Egg, £85

The Bright.Bazaar office needs this phone, you know, for practical reasons of course...!

All images: heals.co.uk

{Elle Decoration meets the V&A}

As if the latest issue of Elle Decoration didn't bring enough excitement to the Bright.Bazaar office; now the lovely chaps over at the magazine have teamed up with the V&A to offer a free notebook with the September issue. With a choice of three different designs, one of the notebooks is bound to look fab on your desk. Our favourite is the Feathered Friends cover, which was originally a furnishing fabric, made by screen-printed cotton, and comes from The V&A Pattern: The Fifties.

Elle Decoration September 2009.

Choice of three notebooks - free with the September issue.

Images: Elle Decoration

This month's issue also comes bound in an incredibly tactile cover, which has a sophisticated matt finish. Inside there's everything from: an insider guide to vintage shopping; breakfast with Sophie Dahl; and, of course, pages of inspirational house tours - check it out! We've joined their facebook page - you can too, just click here.

{*Scream* Habitat's Christmas collection}

Yesterday was the press launch of Habitat's Christmas 2009 collection. Held in a mirrored room littered with bright, twinkling lights, amongst neon celling hangings and brightly coloured wreaths; it sounds like 'Bright Lights - Big City' is going to be quite a collection. We promise to bring all the pictures very soon.

Yikes, we've just gone against our promise not to mention the C word for a few months. In the name of interiors journalism; are we forgiven?!

Christmas collection teaser from Habitat

Image: Habitat.co.uk

{New season excitement}

There's a buzz of excitement over at Bright.Bazaar towers. Why? Well, it's one of our favourite times of year - the start of the Autumn/Winter season. Soon all the main stores will be unveiling their new collections for the coming season.

Often, with the new season, comes a whole host of stunning catalogues: a modern, slick and inspiring offering from Habitat; a bumper issue from Ikea; and more recently, great value homeware offerings from most of the supermarkets. All these, along with countless other lifestyle stores, are soon to be bursting at their autumnal seems. Full of items perfect for making our homes cosy and relaxing; preparing us for the colder times ahead, the A/W collections are always our favourite. We're wondering if the new collections will borrow from the catwalks. Often crossing over in their trends, the interiors and fashion world tend to mirror one another's key looks. These Vogue pictures suggest we should expect glossy, velvet, jewel-like colours. The fashion mag advises sticking to teal, berry and Sapphire colours to obtain the freshest look for our wardrobe. Well, if anyone should know what looks good, they should! We think these colour's look great, so here's hoping for a similar theme in interiors this season.

From top: Christopher Kane, Bottega Veneta.

Images: Vogue.co.uk