Keep Calm & Carry On 3: Interior Design Dining Room Ideas
December 21, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Re-shuffling your furniture and furnishings to accommodate extra diners over the festive season can be a daunting prospect, however, with our tips and hints you’ll be able to keep calm and carry on to create a room fir for both formal and informal dining.
Update the Chairs and Table:
A great way to redesign your dining room [...]
60 Minute Makeover 10: Trendy Purple & Aubergine Colour Schemes
October 3, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
In this video you’ll see how the team made three rooms into bright modern spaces for a young family using trendy purple, gold and cream colour schemes.
The main bedroom was garish and gaudy with dark ink blue and bright yellow colour combinations which swamped the room. One hour later the team had turned the room [...]
Transforming an Out-dated ‘Pink Palace’ and ‘Stepping into a Dream’
September 15, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
The 60 Minute Makeover is all it took for the team to transform an outdated, dark and depressing bedroom into a bright, feminine and glamorous bedroom.
Inspired by 19th century Chinese silk panels depicting ‘The Tree of Life’ pattern the bedroom was redecorated in light reflective colours and soft furnishings to maximise the space. Old fitted [...]
Inspiration From Morocco 7: Patios
February 6, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Lets face it – it is still winter and the patio is as grey and dismal as the British skies; but on a positive note you can look forward to giving it a makeover for the warmer months. Visions of gathering on the patio on a warm and sultry summer evening or enjoying the first [...]
Fabric Facelifts 4: Make Your Own Curtains
December 2, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Making your own curtains – with lining we may add, is a relatively easy project to take on. If you already have experience using a sewing machine then you are going to find this easy peasy! By using a sewing machine, the time taken to make lined curtains is not much different to making those [...]
Mission Possible 2 – To Update Your Dining Room On A Budget
August 24, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Special Agent TF, your mission is to update our dining rooms on a budget. We would love to know how we can create various looks without upsetting our bank managers – more formal, more fun, more dramatic and simply more special is all we are asking for!
Start With A New Wall Colour -Painting the walls [...]
Broaden Your Horizons – Part 3 – Change Your Window Dressing
June 23, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
We do want you all to broaden your horizons because we think you deserve it! The good news is that we don’t expect a lot of work on your part and we are not asking you to completely overlook your entire home design. It is a lot easier than that – so easy that you [...]
How To – Part 4 – Make Dark Rooms Lighter
May 20, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Nobody wants to live like a hobbit – dark spaces not only make it difficult to see, but they create the wrong atmosphere. When you think about how the gloomy winters can make you unmotivated, tired and generally unhappy – the last thing you want is to have a home that reflects it.
The summer comes [...]
Safari Style
June 11, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
A jungle or safari theme can transform a drab and dreary into an exotic and exciting place to be. The inherent mystery and danger of the jungle make it a theme that intrigues and inspires decorators and designers. Striking animal prints, lush vegetation, and exotic African art, make for a decorating pallet that’s hard to [...]
Curtain Fabrics
May 9, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
Tried and tested for hundreds of years, fabric curtains are without doubt the most popular window treatments on the market today. Fashions and fads have come and gone but curtains remain untouched and changed. If anything, curtains have become more popular even than before the introduction of their more modern competitors, and this
has much [...]
