Sophisticated and Modern Dressings for Bay Windows
September 13, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
Bay windows offer a unique expanse of window to maximise the feeling of light and space within a room. Their unique shape creates a natural focal point and a beautiful area for seating, dressing tables or a simple console table. Although a charming feature in any home, difficulties do arise when looking to dress the [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Colourful Credit Crunch
June 24, 2009 by kelly.duggan · View Comments
2009 will always be remembered as the year of the mighty Credit Crunch, and in the interior world as the year of the colours. Although these may seem unlinked they are actually quite synonymous. This year is the year of staying in, and the living room has become the place to be, grab the [...]
Lovely Living Rooms
May 30, 2009 by kelly.duggan · View Comments
The living room is possibly the most used room of any house. It is where we watch TV, entertain friends, chat over coffee, and throw ourselves about while playing certain computer games. We use it as a play room, a study -with our laptops on knees, a dining room – with plates on knees a [...]
For the old romantics out there -Love Seats
April 16, 2009 by kelly.duggan · View Comments
Back in the days when showing your ankles was risqué and being seen canoodling with the opposite sex was a full blown ‘put them in the stocks and flog ‘um’, type scandal, Love Seats were a welcomed solution for courting couples (that’s people dating for the younger readers out there). They were able to sit [...]
Get the Most from Open Plan
March 30, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
Whether it be a sleek city centre apartment or a rural barn renovation open plan is the latest big thing in contemporary design. The feeling of space, flow and clarity has been utilised by most architects and designers who believe spacious and well thought out living is a key indicator for a good standard of [...]
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 [...]
Swivel Chairs, The Modern Day Rocking Chair
February 25, 2009 by kelly.duggan · View Comments
The term swivel chair always conjures up the image of those uncomfortable squeaky rigid seats on wheels you’re forced to use in an office. The only time they were any fun was during the annual ‘chair race’ at the office party….and even that usually ended in tears. But, it is becoming apparent that they don’t [...]
Ottoman Furniture
February 19, 2009 by katie.barrett · View Comments
An ottoman, also known as a footstool, tuffet or pouf. is an upholstered padded seat or bench with neither back or arms and is commonly used in the living room as a footstool, small seat or improvised coffee table. The design was introduced in England as far back as the 1800’s and it’s simplistic yet [...]
