Kitchen
Turning Over a New Leaf in Kitchen Interior Design
January 21, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
Kitchens are returning to the ‘olden days’ of being the hub of the home, with an informal table for eating or stools along the back of island units. Maximising space is also high on this year’s kitchen trends as we see the use of shelving replace the more traditional wall cupboards.
Colours Inspired by Nature:
Lime green [...]
How to Use Tangerine Tango in Your Kitchen
January 13, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
Irrespective of the style of your home you can easily add this year’s on-trend colour of tangerine tango – orange- into your kitchen. This punchy colour is a great way to liven up a kitchen without having to paint kitchen cupboard doors or re-tile the splash-back unless you’ve planned a complete kitchen makeover.
In country style [...]
Interior Design Cost Effective Makeover Ideas 4: Kitchens
December 8, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
For most families, the kitchen is the most-loved area of the house for many reasons. It’s a cosy place where parents and kids can gather together in a casual atmosphere, relating the day’s events and even doing homework for the kids while the adults prepare the meal. Even singles who live on their own in [...]
Interior Design Ideas – Looking Forward to Christmas – Kitchens
November 10, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
There’s little doubt that your kitchen will be a hive of activity of the festive season. As such, it’s now you should be focusing your attentions on a quick make-over before family and friends arrive and you become embroiled in preparing and cooking festive foods.
As with your lounge and dining room, having a really good [...]
Add a Touch of Sparkle to your Kitchen
October 15, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
In this, our penultimate post on adding a touch of sparkle to your home, we take a look at kitchens and suggest ways you can turn a dull and boringly bland kitchen into a functional and practical kitchen with a touch of design flair and sparkle! Mixing dark with light will add a sparkle to [...]
Feng Shui Interior Design Tips 5: For Kitchens
August 26, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
The kitchen is an essential part of the home and where this room is located can bring content, a good source of energy or just the opposite. Consider where you kitchen is located. When you look out the window, which direction are you facing? Many conclusions can be drawn from where the kitchen is located [...]
Red Interior Design Ideas & Tips
July 27, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Red is a colour that invokes much emotion. It is filled with intensity and really draws the eye. This is primarily the reason it is used in warning signs and in traffic signals – after all, they need to catch your attention immediately.
Due to this, the colour red serves a similar purpose in interior design [...]
Seasonal Style 3: In Your Kitchen
May 11, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
When you consider it any room in your house will normally have a decoration lifespan, as every few years styles change, as do the colours that are in fashion. But if you are thinking of redecorating or remodelling your kitchen, you will know that this can be a costly exercise and in today’s present economic [...]
How To 1: How to Create a Victorian Kitchen
May 2, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
With so many different ways to decorate a kitchen nowadays, it is often a difficult task to actually think of the different ways in which you can adorn your kitchen and create a wonderful looking cooking area. Aside from the contemporary styles, many people choose a Victorian kitchen which is a wonderful way to add [...]
Give Your Home the Vintage Feel 4: In the Kitchen
April 21, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Basically if you’re thinking of remodelling your with a vintage style then there is no really correct way or wrong way. Depending on what sort of style you’re going to go for and what sort of time era that you are going to choose gives you the flexibility to make your kitchen quite unique. Maybe [...]
