Boxing Day Celebrations
December 26, 2009 by Helen Green · View Comments
It’s finally over for another year and Christmas is now done and dusted. Boxing day is a day to recover from eating too much and perhaps having one to many glasses of wine! It’s also another perfect opportunity to spend time with the family. You could also choose to ‘brave’ the Boxing Day sales, which [...]
Preparing For The Festive Season – Dining Rooms Part 1
December 2, 2009 by Helen Green · View Comments
Preparing your dining room ready for the festive season can begin, now by thinking of the overall ambience, colour and style you are going to want to bring to your festive table.
The traditional festive season colours are red and green, which is fine if you have green or red curtains in your dining room as [...]
Preparing For The Festive Season Lounges Part 1
December 1, 2009 by Helen Green · View Comments
Although many people will be putting up their festive decorations today take a minute to stop and think about how you can arrange furniture to accommodate the people who are spending the holidays with you.
A table placed at the back of a sofa is a great idea as you can use it to put out [...]
Make the Best Use of Lighting in Your Home
October 18, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
Often ignored or unconsidered lighting has a huge effect on the appearance, atmosphere and look of a room. The distribution, intensity and style of lighting can make a room feel bright and spacious or cosy and romantic. Consequently it is advised that when designing a room or changing a furniture layout you consider the supply [...]
The Perfect Guestroom
September 30, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
Have you ever noticed how most of us love playing host but generally don’t like being guests quite as much? The reason? Guest bedrooms! In our own homes we get the best of both worlds- no travelling, a night with our friends or family, food and music WE like and at the end of it [...]
Garden Nightlights
September 24, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
If you’re looking at ideas for garden lighting, the chances are you’re responsible for a home and, possibly, a family. That makes you also accountable for protecting that home and family – a heavy responsibility to bear, but one that can be lightened, literally in this case, by ensuring that your security lighting is up-to-date.
All [...]
Bright Ideas for Lampshades
September 22, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
An inexpensive plain lampshade can be transformed in so many ways. Decorating a lampshade, whether with dyeing, sewing or painting techniques, enables you to match a room’s decor perfectly and to create a one-of-a-kind piece with a personal touch.
Trim
There is a wide variety of decorative trims available in fabric and craft stores that can [...]
A Va Va Vooom Room.
July 12, 2009 by kelly.duggan · View Comments
Everybody wants something in their home to make others go ‘wow’. Something different to give real visual excitement to your room and with the current trends around there is many ways that this can be achieved.
Colour is probably the first thing that many people notice in a room. With trend currently being in favour [...]
The living room lighting plan
July 6, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
Getting the lighting arrangement right in a living room can actually prove much trickier than in say a kitchen or a study, this is due because the way we use our living area is much more random. When in a kitchen, you are either there to prepare food or eat food –simple. When in a [...]
Ten Cheap Ways to Increase the Value of Your Home
June 16, 2009 by james.brennan · View Comments
Despite the fact that it depreciates in value every single day from the second you buy it until the day it needs towing, guzzles money faster than it guzzles petrol and has a habit of breaking down in the most remote and rain soaked parts of the countryside, your sports car is, according to at [...]
