MR

MR is a collaboration between Mariel (Osborn) and Rivca (Burns) spanning different mediums and formats. For Covet MR focuses on Modern Recycling, where the pair specialise in reclaiming materials or furniture and fixing them up in a beautiful way, or making something totally new from them.

Their first pieces for Covet have been the sofa seats and pallet shelves, which are custom made, to order, so you can have a bespoke up-cycled piece of furniture that fits perfectly into your house.
 

Looking forward to renovating some chest of drawers, and also some cane furniture (swoon!) the pair wanted to show us how easy it can be to make new and useful things for your home.

Here we are featuring their new project - a coat rack, and you can make one too!

To make this coat rack you will need:
2x pieces of fairly wide, flat wood. (We are using old bed slats!)
4x screws
doorknobs with screws (we have used 11)
4x rawlplugs
paint
a paintbrush
a drill
a screwdriver
a saw

 

1. Paint your pieces of wood whatever colour you want your coat rack to be. We just used some leftover white paint that was in the cupboard. You may need to do a few coats, and if you do, you'll need to let the paint dry in-between layers. We did 3 coats.

 2. Lay the pieces out how you want the coat rack to look.

3. Draw along both of the edges of the top piece, to mark on to the bottom piece.

4. When you take the top piece off, the bottom piece will look something like this. These marks are where you need to saw this piece of wood.

5. Once you have sawed that plank, you can glue your pieces together to make a flat cross. When we made ours, we added a short coloured piece on top afterwards as a decorative feature.

6. Now you need to mark out where you'd like your "hooks" to go.

7. You need to drill holes in these points...

8. Then poke the back screw bit in...

9. Then you can screw the fronts on...

10. Drill holes in the wall where you want the rack to go, and pop the rawlplugs in. Then screw the coat rack into place!

Now you can have a go at this yourself! We didn't measure anything out on ours as we didn't want it to be too symmetrical or perfect. We loved the idea of just whipping this together too, and it is a very fast project to do.

Though if you don't want to make this yourself, get in touch via email, and we can make a custom order for you. (Email us at hello.covetinteriors [@] gmail.com)

Home...

Our house has an office and a studio in it. Here we live, dream, work and play. Having our home function like this has taken a while, but it feels like a creative and hardworking place that complements every side of our lives.

We have been collecting our friends' artwork for the last couple of years, and recently moved into a house where we can present it in the way it deserves. Having the space and a place we can spread out in has been one of the contributing factors to me starting up Covet, and I feel proud to have friends making such beautiful work that I want to surround myself with! Because of this I actually wanted to share some images of our home, where there are some really lovely pockets of artwork.

 

Our hallway is lined with a diverse array of prints, from L- R we have a Dazed and Confused magazine cover, Aliyah Hussain, Callum Higgins (Yes Blythe artwork) Giorgio Moroder record sleeve, my glitter box art work, and Mr Hass. Then above the door is a Supermundane print. I love the diversity in the types of image here. The colours and textures are really appealing to me, which is why they fit together so well, despite how different they are.

The front room is framed by curtains that I hand dyed. They make you feel like you've been dipped in the ocean in the day, and at night they brighten up the room, making it feel a lot more summery than it is! (The curtains, pad cushion and day seat can be custom made for you - order through the Covet website.)

This little corner, complete with a Covet day seat for reading is headed by an incredible piece by Maurice Carlin, which is from his Temporary Custodian project. This piece is a fragment of a much, much larger artwork which has been divided up and distributed (temporarily) to individuals and collectors all over the country, and explores ideas of lending and the value of art.

 -details from Maurice Carlin's piece.

The piece above the fireplace was a moving in present (as I LOVE mermaids) and is by Alex Frazer.
The Mountain pompom was made by me for a photoshoot and I will do a tutorial some day soon, as the shapes, patterns and characters that you can make with them are endless, and I want you to be as obsessed with them as I am!

 -risographs and glitter boxes by me.

-detail of Austra tour poster

Our dining room has a few select pieces, again with a slightly tropical feel!

From L- R Silent Barn listings from 2013, poster by Steve Hockett and Daniel Pickles for their marshmallow based exhibition, DR ME poster, gig poster by Lucy Jones.


The print in our bathroom is by Rob Bailey from his exhibition in Common in Manchester, last year.

Their wobbly legs are so cute, and I made some vinyl splashes to enhance the watery theme of the room! I really love this idea of adding fun and decorative detail to plain walls, so I would like to do some more soon. I will add a tutorial up here too as it is so easy and they also don't damage the wall at all, so you can add a bit of fun to a wall even if you are renting.

Our house actually contains quite a lot of work by the Covet contributors. I guess that's why I asked them to be involved in the project from the beginning, as I knew how well some of it already went together! John and Aliyah's illustrations in particular are playful and colourful and we have quite a few of their pieces up, including "Natural Selection", John's first risographed piece.

- illustrations by John Powell-Jones.

We don't have loads up in the bedroom, but to carry on my plant obsession, above our bed we have a cactus print by Caroline Dowsett which I adore! And you can also see here the wiggly Matisse style plant cushion that was made for me as a Christmas present!

We have a way to go, but having a house with lively walls makes everything better. Nice artwork and plants. That's a step in the right direction!

What I find strange, is that blue and green are the colours that I used to be least drawn to in my work, and the whole house is full of them. Maybe I'm coming around!