The Botley-based home decor firm celebrating two years in business

The Botley-based home decor firm celebrating two years in business
Tilly Wilson from Botley owns Collecting Seashells <i>(Image: Collecting Seashells / Canva)</i>

Tilly Wilson from Botley owns Accumulating Seashells (Image: Gathering Seashells / Canva)

A HAMPSHIRE mum who swapped a occupation in journalism and advertising and marketing to launch her own house décor organization is celebrating its second birthday.

Tilly Wilson, from Botley, retired her pen and notepad to fulfil her aspiration of producing her individual agency, Accumulating Seashells.

Born out of lockdown and Tilly’s adore of decorating her property, Amassing Seashells is an on the internet residence décor boutique, providing its clients with a host of hand-picked treasures.

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By bringing jointly lovely parts and the most up-to-date developments, Tilly meticulously selects products to aid consumers layout distinctive areas that replicate their identity and echo their type.

“It’s the small touches that create authentic areas which genuinely mirror the folks who dwell there, telling their story and accentuating individual memories,” she says.

One thing that sets Collecting Seashells apart from other impartial on the web stores is the absolute perseverance to creating the knowledge as favourable as attainable for the client.

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Tilly provides: “We’re all about all those finishing touches. Just about every buy is independently reward wrapped in lovely seashell tissue paper which I developed myself, and we write very little notes to prospects if we know it’s for a exclusive situation.”

With the assist of General Manager Katie, all the items stocked by Amassing Seashells are curated and hand-picked by Tilly.

With each other, they regularly attend trade fairs to meet new suppliers and are incredibly certain about only selecting products they would place in their very own household.

In upcoming, they hope to diversify and offer collections that press the boundaries of the brand.

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A new selection was curated specially by Katie and is designed for the 1st-time customer and college student markets, giving more reasonably priced, but equally exceptional and fashionable items for the 1st shift away from house.

To reward returning prospects, a loyalty programme where by individuals can generate ‘Seashells’ and convert them into cash off vouchers was also introduced at the conclude of final yr and has been nicely-obtained.

Less than building is a pre-beloved on the web market for shoppers wanting to offer some of their classic home décor.

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“We want to be sustainable as properly,” adds Tilly. “As substantially as we are selling new property accessories, we want to persuade our customers to recycle what they no more time want. Our marketplace will give them a free of charge system to do that, all with the aim of helping minimize the volume we toss away.”