Stripes, Spots, Sunflowers or Stars – How to Decorate Your Room Using Pattern
October 21, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
From a beautiful forest to a bustling supermarket pattern is everywhere we look. Whether it is the soft veins along a long leaf or the checkerboard of vinyl tiles the forms, lines and variation in colour of a pattern are often what gives an object or area interest, texture and its identity. When it comes [...]
Homemade Comforts
September 26, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
Changing the cushions is the simplest way to revamp a room or old settee. You avoid dustsheets, brushes and paint, and if you go off the print you can use the material for something else, hide it in another room, or pop another cushion cover over the top.
You’ll need to source inexpensive material. My top [...]
Sweet Dreams – Coordinated Bedroom Sets
September 14, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
Unlike some other areas of the home, the bedroom is one of the most straight forward and easy rooms to design. Whether it be your master suite, spare room or child’s room, a few simple steps will give the space a sense of style, cohesiveness and sense. The most effective way to do this is [...]
Luxurious Lounge Curtains With a Contemporary Edge
September 12, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
Bar their practical uses, curtains are most frequently seen and most effective in the warmer and more relaxed areas of the home such as bedrooms and living rooms. Their sumptuous, elegant and textured presence helps give these rooms that extra level of luxury and cosiness and also enhances the feeling of height within a space. [...]
Del Monte Orange or Seventies Settee Beige?
August 3, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
With every new range of increasingly ridiculously named paint that hits the shelves of our DIY stores, the (should be) simple task of choosing tin in a colour you like becomes ever more difficult. If you have attempted to do this lately, you will know exactly what I mean. Those geniuses in marketing no longer [...]
All White Rodders!
August 2, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
The all white scheme. Simple right? I mean, it’s just… white. In theory that may well be true, but in practice a minimal scheme is a very delicate and difficult style to pull off really well. It takes a keen eye and lots of attention to detail. When done too strictly, it can feel clinical [...]
Black & White, Classic Combination or Scary Nightmare?
May 25, 2009 by philippa.rowlands · View Comments
Many people are scared of using black when decorating as they think it can enclose spaces and make rooms feel smaller and darker, they are however wrong to think like this. When teamed with the right combinations it creates a classic statement and can in fact open up spaces and capture the room in a [...]
Stylish and Sumptuous Modern Sofas
March 17, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
We sit on them, we lie on them, we read on them, we even eat on them. Bar their wives, children and hearty homemade cooking, sofas are to most the thing they look forward to on their drive home from work. Whatever shape or size the British population loves to put their feet up in [...]
Luxurious Loft Style to Aid Your Renovation
February 12, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
In the current economic climate where selling your house is a daunting and unlikely prospect, renovating and extending your current home is an ideal next best solution and can also help to add further value to your property. The most obvious renovation to consider in most properties is making your loft area a habitable space [...]
Top Tips for Giving Your Home a Spring Time Revival
January 25, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
Just as the world outside takes a fresh facelift every springtime it is also important to revive your home to create a new and clean energy for the year ahead. It is time to think light, bright and clean. It is time to think new, fresh and exciting. Whether it be the seaside, countryside or [...]
