Secret Corner - The Calm Gallery

If you love filling your home with prints and typography then you will love this little place!

The Calm Gallery.  Run by young husband and wife team, Lucas and Hayley, they have sourced a variety of fantastic artists to bring you unique, handmade prints, tea towels and postcards. I really need to narrow down my 'to buy' list but I've been trying to source some nice simple, neutral coloured prints for the kitchen for quite a while now but could never find quite what I was looking for.... until now! The prices are very reasonable too, AND there is of course the added bonus that you know you are supporting independent artists.

These guys don't offer a framing service but they do give you a few recommendations on what frames would suit your print if you don't have an eye for that sort of thing which I think is pretty perfect of them.  They have also gone to the trouble of including a little profile about each artist - how lovely of them! I seriously think these guys have done a great job, you can tell that they genuinely had the customer at the forefront of their mind whilst they were developing this site and as a result of this I don't think I'll be buying my prints from anywhere else! My only negative is that they don't offer any sort of custom printing which is a bit of a shame as it would be nice to change the colour to fit in with my rooms but that's just a minor and I can imagine that offering any sort of customisation would turn things a bit manic!

Now on to my favourites! I am most definitely buying this 'complete and utter bollocks' one for our games room.  It's a phrase my husband uses regularly and the games room is somewhere that him and his mates spend a lot of time so I feel it's pretty apt, ha.  I also like this one about beauty because it's true and I wonder why it's not a more well known phrase?! Unfortunately the colours mean it won't really fit into any of my rooms.

I am in love with these eye chart prints which are actually designed by the founders - at the moment I can't really decide which is my favourite and I'm having a bit of a debate with myself about whether to buy one for the stairway or not.... which would you choose?

So that's it.  A completely and utterly fantastico website.  I hope you guys like it as much as I do, I was so excited about writing this post and sharing this little place with you all! I actually had to stop looking because my favourites list was getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.....