Simple Decorating Ideas 7: Bedroom Home Improvement Tips
March 20, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Upgrading a room does not have to be a huge undertaking, in fact many times all you need to do is accentuate the features of the room you already love. For example, if you simply love your bay window seat, a fresh coat of paint and some new ready made curtains can make the entire [...]
Bedroom Decorating Trends 5: Furnishing Your Bedroom Correctly
March 11, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
If you listen to experts, the decorating trends in furnishing your bedroom correctly means to make plenty of room for the things you love to be surrounded by. This might involve de-cluttering your space and organising it, but there are other helpful hints which we can offer which are far more exciting!
Your furnishings can overpower [...]
Using Textiles To Personalise Your Home 7: Guest Rooms
February 27, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Personalising your guest room might be one of the more difficult rooms to personalise in general. It is a room in theory you will use very little, maybe using the closet space for storage of some of your clothes, coming in to do some cleaning, maybe having an afternoon nap here.
Unless you know that you [...]
Using Textiles To Personalise Your Home 2: Bedrooms
February 22, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
In this post we’re going to look at bedrooms and how using a variety of different textiles and colours can alter the dynamics.
When giving thought to using textiles personalise your bedroom, the concept of personal is probably more important than any other room in the house. Our bedroom is the place where we have to [...]
Bedroom Decorating Ideas 6: When Your Bedroom Needs An Overhaul
February 12, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
For years you have tried to spruce up your bedroom décor with new curtains, bedspreads and small accessories but the same old feeling keeps creeping back into the space. This is when you know that your bedroom needs a full overhaul. As we age, our taste in design sometimes also changes and starting with a [...]
Bedroom Decorating Ideas 4: Guest Rooms
February 10, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Guest rooms are always a dilemma and if you’re not careful can become a room which is devoid of any real purpose or meaning. Guest rooms in your home should be friendly, welcoming bedrooms. You want to leave a good impression on the guests who spend the night or a couple of days over at [...]
Top Interior Design Tips For August 1- Keeping Cool
August 2, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
August is the last official month of summer before we move into September – with lots of showers and cooler nights. We will be taking a look at how you can use the last of the summer sun to your advantage. Interior design and decorating go through seasonal changes due to the weather conditions outside.
Everything [...]
A Room With A View 7: A Room With A View From A City Apartment
July 18, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
How are things looking outside of your window? It is likely to be busy down below in the heaving city – come day or night. You might have to put up with the chaos unfolding out of your city apartment – busy street markets, impatient taxi drivers making use of their car horns, groups of [...]
A Room With A View 2 – A Room With A View Over City Skyscrapers
July 13, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
The view from outside your window is going to have some effect on your interiors. If you have an urban home and a fascinating view over the city then we have some great ideas how to incorporate that environment into your home decorating. We will be paying some special attention to window treatments which will [...]
Simplicity Is The Key 4: Simplicity Is The Key To Saying ‘I Made It!’
July 8, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
The basic skills of a 21st century woman are quite different to what they were half a century ago. Today, our skills are helping us to climb the career ladder and not to maintain a happy home. Our grandmothers all had the skills of sewing, knitting and using there own pair of hands to create [...]
