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 [...]
Hemmingway’s Kioskiosk – Bringing Serendipity Back to Our High Streets
August 8, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
We often report and complain of the increasingly homogenous city centres we experience across our country and world today. Whether it be Market Street in Manchester, Briggate in Leeds or even London’s Oxford Street, we all know and expect the same key retailers to grace us. From Next to M&S to Topshop to Boots, there [...]
How to Co-ordinate Colours within Your Bathroom
July 25, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
The bathroom is one of the most practical rooms in the house generally crammed to the rafters with appliances and storage. However fundamental and necessary these elements are this practical streak of a bathroom should not mean it can not also be attractive and reflective of your personality. Because of the bland and neutral range [...]
Mood Boards: You don’t have to be a Professional to get a Professional Finish
February 18, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
An essential aid for any interior designer; a moodboard is a collection or collage of materials (photographs, magazine images, text, paint, textures, colours etc) which capture the ambience, intention or feel of a design. It is the easiest and most logical way to physically evaluate or summarise your aspirations and thoughts with regards to a [...]
The Modern Kitchen
February 17, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
Crammed with the latest technologies, gadgetry and materials, the contemporary kitchen has become a real play area for today’s top designers. Recognized as a nightmare to clean, the all white kitchen that has dominated for the last fifteen years has now surrendered to a new breed of boldly coloured, well thought out incarnations, that [...]
