February 2012
How to Give a Quick Boost to Your Interior by Adding Texture
February 29, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
Today’s post focuses your attention of bringing new and different textures into your homes. As we’ve already briefly looked at using different textures into your home in our post ‘Be a 2012 Trendsetter – Play with Damask’ amongst others, today we step it up a gear and look at including tactile fabrics and materials into [...]
How to Give a Quick Boost to Your Interior by Using New Colours
February 28, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
Today we look at using new colours to add a new look to your rooms. As we said yesterday this isn’t about complete redecoration projects, it’s about using what you already have and building upon it. As we know colour plays a huge part in successful interior design, it can have a tremendous impact on [...]
Dining Room Interior Design Ideas: Bright & Beautiful
February 27, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
In our last post looking at dining rooms we opt for a simple, yet bright and beautiful interior design style which can be adapted and jiggled around to suit all types of homes and dinging spaces. As we’ve seen you don’t necessarily have to have a separate dining room as tables and chairs can fit [...]
How to Give a Quick Boost to Your Interior Using Fabrics
February 27, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
This week we’re going to share some tips and hints on how to give a quick boost to your home using a variety of different easy techniques and soft furnishings. We begin with the use of fabrics as an effective way to breathe new life in any or all of your rooms.
Sometimes the simplest ideas [...]
Dining Room Interior Design Ideas: Small, yet Stylish
February 25, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
Small dining rooms shouldn’t pose any problems with finding any style, however, many small dining rooms or areas lack definition and can easily become ‘lost’. Fir some this may be advantageous, for others they need to find suitable ways to make their dining area find a defined space.
There are a number of ways to define [...]
Dining Room Interior Design Ideas: Eclectic Mixes
February 24, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
In times of austerity interior design comes to life with innovative ideas to suit all styles of homes and budgets. It shows us that in order to create a stunning interior you don’t have to have bespoke furniture and soft furnishings, in fact you don’t even need to have identical chairs around your dining room. [...]
Dining Room Interior Design Ideas: Sensibly Modern
February 23, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
Simple, yet incredibly stylish, modern dining rooms are devoid of anything irrelevant and packed full of style. Unusual shapes and the clever use of fabrics and materials are the hallmarks of this type of interior design style.
Simplicity doesn’t mean bland and boring – what is does mean is make the room and its furnishings are [...]
Dining Room Interior Design Ideas: Playing with Symmetry
February 22, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
Symmetrical dining room styling is not a new interior design conception. Over the decades it has been used to create stunning dining rooms in both traditionally styled and modern homes. The great advantage of playing with symmetry is that an elegant and refined look can easily be achieved.
The principles of symmetry mean that each side [...]
Dining Room Interior Design Ideas: Smoky Neutrals
February 21, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
In today’s post we turn our attention to modern dining rooms in this year’s on-trend smoky neutrals. White white, beige and dare I say it magnolia, are still amongst the top colour choices for dining rooms, this years smoky neutrals are a welcome change. Without being ostentatious or too formal soft greys are an ideal [...]
Dining Room Interior Design Ideas: French Country
February 20, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
This week we’re going to focus our attentions on dining rooms. It wasn’t that many years ago when every home had a dining room or a table at which the family would gather everyday for their meal. Then many of us went through a phase of eating our dinner perched on our laps while watching [...]
