December 2008
Art At Home: Creating Your Art Room
December 23, 2008 by james.brennan · View Comments
Finishing touches are optional but homely touches such as matching soft furnishings such as curtains, beanbags, cushions (on a cosy armchair, perfect for tea breaks) will help personalise your studio, helping you to relax and be inspired. Perhaps some of your hand painted wall art would help inspire and motivate!
High Style Heating and Feature Fireplaces
December 22, 2008 by katie.barrett · View Comments
Now the winter cold is well and truly upon us the need for effective heating appliances becomes ever more apparent. Until recently, good heating has required ugly and intrusive radiators and dated fire surrounds. Lately, however, there has been an upsurge in new and designer chic heating appliances. From fire balls to heated tower rails [...]
Stylish Storage Solutions for Your Home
December 21, 2008 by katie.barrett · View Comments
Alongside the day to day activities of keeping us warm and dry, we also require our homes to be an undercover storage container for our lives collectables. From old photos to Christmas decorations each and every one of us devises various methods to hide these things until they are then required. As this article will [...]
Welcome the Christmas Spirit with Your Own Home Bar
December 20, 2008 by katie.barrett · View Comments
If you consider yourself the ‘Hostess with the Mostess’ and love to entertain your friends and family; the perfect addition to your house would be a home bar. Whether large or small, every home can incorporate a bar area in to their kitchen, dining room, games room or lounge. Unlike common conceptions, your bar does [...]
Set the Table, Set the Mood for Christmas
December 20, 2008 by james.brennan · View Comments
Whether you are having a cosy Christmas meal with the family this year or planning Yule Tide party for all of your friends, remembering to set a festively themed table will really help set the correct mood whilst giving proceedings a natural centrepiece to gather around. With the help of the guide below, setting a [...]
Ensuring Festive Cheer
December 20, 2008 by james.brennan · View Comments
As the focal point of your home during the festive months, your Christmas tree is the physical embodiment of Christmas spirit. It plays a vital part in creating that magical atmosphere that comes into your home only once a year. Therefore it is certainly not something you want to get wrong!
The choosing of the tree [...]
Memorabilia as Decoration
December 18, 2008 by james.brennan · View Comments
If you are thinking about adding some decoration to a tried and lifeless room at home but are stuck for ideas, why not take a break from the same old pictures and ornaments and all of the other boring things that fill homes in the United States of Generica and instead inject some of your [...]
Beautiful Display Cabinets
December 17, 2008 by james.brennan · View Comments
A display cabinet is usually a box-shaped form but can also be bought to fit corners. They can be stand-alone pieces of furniture or built into or attached to a wall. Typically they are made of wood or steel, with taller cabinets made up of a concealed storage area at the bottom and glass fronted [...]
Setting The Mood with Christmas Lights
December 16, 2008 by james.brennan · View Comments
The lights in your local town are on, late night shopping has begun and the morning air tastes just that little bit fresher, summer may be barely over yet somehow Christmas is almost upon us once again. Every year it seems to creep up on us so fast. But it doesn’t feel like Christmas! It [...]
Exterior Christmas Decorations
December 15, 2008 by james.brennan · View Comments
Decorating the exterior of your home for the Christmas holidays is an essential but criminally overlooked part Yule Tide plans if you have children or you are having guests over for a get-together at any point. the front of the house is the first thing people see when they arrive so setting the tone [...]
