Organic Cushions

Some organic colour for your home

We have a selection of organic cushions, all ready made up looking for a home.

All at a feel good price

Just email, call or visit to view.

We can also courier to you.

Acacia Persimon

hand screen printed on organic cotton

40 x 32cm

$55 cover $75 with feather inner

Front & Back: Anticipate Wildberry & Stilton

printed on organic cotton

44 x 39cm

$40 cover $60 with feather inner
SOLD BUT ANOTHER CAN BE MADE

Bicycles printed on organic cotton

39 x 30cm

$40 cover $60 with feather inner

Front & Back of Birch and Delft Inky Blue

Hand Screen Printed on Hemp & Organic Cotton

43 x 30cm

$40 cover $60 with feather inner

Birch & Gingko in Olive & Almond on Cream

Hand Screen Printed on Hemp & Organic Cotton

40 x 31cm

$96 cover $116 with feather inner

Fantail's Flowers in Berry

on linen with organic cotton back

41 x 41cm

$40 Cover, $60 including feather inner

SORRY SOLD OUT
However, a custom cushion can be made with the actual fantails. Please contact us for a price.

Grow Chocolate & Teal

Digitally printed on organic cotton

41 x 33cm

$45 Cover, $68 including feather inner

Hills of Home

Printed in NZ on Linen with Grey Linen back.

39 x 32cm

$40 cover, $60 including feather inner

Karo & Spinnafex in Moss

Printed in NZ on linen

50 x 50cm

$40 cover $68 including feather inner

Flowering Gum & Little Forest in Olive & Robin's Egg

printed on hemp & organic cotton, piped in hemp & silk

39 x 32cm

$96 cover $116 including feather inner

Front and Back: Nature Nurture

printed on hemp & organic cotton in NZ with an organic cotton trim and back

49 x 30cm

$40 cover $64 with feather inner

Rooftops Snow on Berry

Hand printed on hemp & organic cotton

37 x 35cm

$109 cover $133 with feather inner

SOLD BUT ANOTHER CAN BE MADE

Sumor Charcoal on Black

organic cotton with charcoal linen back

$40 cover $64 with feather inner

SOLD OUT NO MORE SORRY

Swirley Owls in Pink

100% Hemp Twill

45 x 45cm

$87 cover $112 with feather inner

Thirty Nine

digitally printed on GOTS certified organic cotton

40 x 30cm

$40 cover $60 with feather inner

Front & Back: Trams & Bicycles

Printed on hemp & organic Cotton. Back NZ grown woven & dyed wool

43 x 30cm

$55 cover $75 with feather inner

Wee Jubilee in Fuschia with fuschia cord trim and back.

Printed on organic cotton

49 x 30cm

Was $60 Now $40 cover

$64 with feather inner

If you see anything you like Contact Verdant

There are other cushions made up not shown here as well as loads of fabrics to choose from for a custom made cushion service. Along with all manner of organic soft-furnishings, including curtains, blinds, re-upholstery, new furniture, rugs, throws & flooring. All hand picked and chosen for their low ecological impact.

Being Environmentally Aware

Being Environmentally Aware

At Verdant we practice being environmentally aware which means that with everything we do we consider the impact it has on the environment. Often this isn't easy to follow through. But here are some things we do do.

Paper: Where possible we choose electronic methods like emailing quotes and invoices rather than printing and posting. If printing is needed our printer is set to print double sided on recycled paper, and any missprints are kept as scrap paper for notes. We also ask all suppliers to email invoices and statements where possible.

Transport: This is one area we could really improve on. Being very idealistic I thought of riding around town on a bicycle with my samples. However, since Wellington has many hills and I live on one of the higher ones, my two attempts to return from the shops after gliding down the hill meant I walked all the way back home (and that was just carrying a bottle of milk!) My current thought is a Cargo Electric Bike, however, as I sometimes carry large 3 metre bent rods, I would be in serious risk of knocking someone else out! I am saving up for one of these. Meanwhile I drive a Toyota Corolla hatchback which fits lots of sampling and a huge ladder. This was purchased with a lot of analysis about fuel efficiency. I did seriously consider a Prius when I bought my Corolla several years ago, but discovered that the battery at the time, didn't last very long, and was still made from some very hefty metals that is hard to dispose of effectively at the end of its life. So now, we are just waiting for an electric or hybrid station wagon to come onto the market. I sometimes even use the bus, but not as often as I like. When I do make a trip somewhere in the car I add other things to my list to do in the same area.

Packaging: Sometimes the packaging our product comes in is not the best. So it gets stashed in the basement and re-used when something needs to be posted or couriered, or if its past it, it goes in the recycling bin. Traditionally curtains and blinds are packaged in non-reusable plastic bags. However, we have just received some new Organic Cotton Calico of which we will be whipping up curtain bags to transport our curtains to their new homes! Yay!

Scrap fabric: Draught Stops and Door Stops are made from scraps big enough to use, while anything smaller is used to tie packages. All the natural fibres left over from stitching and cutting out will be sent to Northland to The Papermill to be shreaded and used in recycled paper!

Suppliers: It is a hard road to sustainability. If I come across a supplier who is not sympathetic to my plight, then I generally stop dealing with them. Even if they may have one product that fits the bill. Other suppliers can often be swayed to look into things more for me.

Creating Eco Interiors: The biggest part of our job is finding materials for our home that tick many different boxes. Is the soft furnishing fabric grown organically? Where does the organic fabric come from? How has it been grown? Does the material derive from petro-chemicals? Will the wooden furniture last a long time? Can you replace the virgin material within your lifetime?

Good home design

Some simple measures of good home design

I thought I would share a few of my measures when it comes to home design.

1. Taking time to let the process evolve

2. Get inspiration from collecting items or materials

3. Involve experimentation with materials

4. Have a process of elimination

5. Pay Attention to detail

6. Be sympathetic and in harmony with the environment

7. Take responsibility for the environment

8. Multiple uses for spaces

9. Involve both professionals, yourself, friends and family in the building

1.Taking time to let the process evolve

Taking the time to choose a space and materials, can help in the flexibility and evolution of the design.

The trusting of instincts is often a good indicator when something is right. And this can only happen when there is no time constraints. Time and time again, I have clients who find something they like, only to go through a multitude of options only to find they go back to the first thing they were attracted to. Those that are pressured to make a choice due to a deadline often end up not being so happy with their choice.

Ideally as needs change the flexibility of being able to evolve the building or create it in stages.

2.Get inspiration from collecting items or materials

The collection of materials can help inspire a certain look or feel to a place. Often things that people collect have common threads, so it is good find out what that common thread is and get inspiration from those.

3.Involve experimentation with materials

Experimenting with raw materials can help create discover something new and interesting.

4.Have a process of elimination

Just as important as collecting, eliminating things can help create a clear picture and get rid of unnecessary things to declutter. I love William Morris’ quote;

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not believe to be beautiful or useful”.

Beautiful and Useful don’t have to be mutually exclusive. A useful thing can also be beautiful thing. In history, some buildings like Victorian and Edwardian Villas have been built with ornament. Much needed fixtures and fittings are often decorated with detail to create a more personalised look to a house. Much the same as those fittings with purposely no detail can be just as beautiful in its simplicity and form. Although I also believe something beautiful doesn’t have to be useful.

Sometimes collections of things such family heirlooms or things collected on holidays may not be beautiful on the outside, but having them around evoke beautiful memories of people and places.

One person’s junk is another person’s treasure. The collection of materials need to be done carefully and justified otherwise it could be just junk. It is no use buying a sink just because you need one and its measurements fit. The question has to be asked whether the sink is attractive and will look right with other things.

5.Pay Attention to detail

I believe the beauty is in the detail. Making choices of building materials slowly when developing a plan can ensure every detail is correct and not compromised on because of time.

6.Be sympathetic and in harmony with the environment

Taking cues from the natural landscape and possible raw materials to design a home. This can also be experimenting.

7.Take responsibility for the environment

Taking responsibility for your own survival, by growing and raising your own food and necessities, and taking care of your own wastes. Being self-sufficient can create a much bigger appreciation and of course a responsibility to the environment rather than relying on Out of Sight Out of mind mentality.

8.Multiple uses for spaces

Having multiple uses of a space ensures that the space would get maximum usage. This would be exceptionally good for small spaces.

I love Bill Mollison’s idea in Introduction to Permaculture, of having a combined greenhouse and chicken house, so the chicken’s heat provides warmth for the plants, as well as providing fertiliser.

9.Involve both professionals, yourself, friends and family in the building

Professionals help in the areas where others may have limited skills to get the details just right. The borrowing of friends and family to build can be a productive social activity. In the many times I have painted and made things, whether by myself or with others, occasionally when I look at the piece I have made or painted, I recall what I was thinking at the time or conversations I have had with people who have helped. As long as these were positive thoughts and conversations, these items seem to possess a positive energy and a sense of pride. In the times I have made things from scratch with limited skills, the finish may not be perfect, but in the process I have learnt things.

Wallpaper

W A L L P A P E R I N G

Adorn the walls with printed recycled wallpaper, or add texture with handmade paper from the mulberry tree.

We ensure all our wallpapers, come from a sustainable source. This means they are either from recycled paper or paper pulp from FSC or PEFC certified wood. There are no nasty vinyls or polyesters in our wallpapers, and the inks used are water based, meaning they are a lot healthier for our homes than some of the alternatives.