Broaden Your Horizons – Part 2 – Add Visual Impact To Your Dining Room
June 22, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
In our next instalment of Broaden Your Horizons, we are taking a look at dining rooms and expressing some ideas for change. It is one thing to see dining rooms in their functional sense – for eating, entertaining and yet more eating – but what about the visual?
Visual Impact Method 1 – Focal Points:
A focal [...]
Broaden Your Horizons – Part 1 – Try A New Colour In Your Lounge
June 21, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Welcome to our new feature for interior design inspiration – Broaden Your Horizons. If you haven’t guessed already, this special feature is about looking further into interior design and seeing around the corners. It is about looking beyond the familiar in decorating and embracing some fresh ideas for the home.
Perhaps it is the onset of [...]
Style Revival – Part 5 – 1960’s Flower Power
June 18, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Up until the 1960s, 20th century Britain was in the habit of looking to the American’s for home interior styles – you only have to think of the Hollywood Glamour years and the 1950s Rock & Roll era for evidence. All that changed in the swinging sixties though as super hip London became the leader [...]
Style Revival – Part 4 – 1950’s Rock & Roll
June 17, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
After the war the 1950’s really took off again in terms of interior design and decorating the home became fun once more! It wasn’t just about putting some new décor pieces up either – everything changed.
A new life had begun and this was shown immensely in home decorating – anything that was old and with [...]
