Interior Design Ideas: Enter the Dragon into Your Dining Room
January 25, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
It has to be said that many Chinese adore antiques, especially in their dining room. Ornate dining room tables and chairs, along with sideboards and cupboards are much sort after, along with antique diner services, plates etc. Many of the genuine Chinese antiques command very high prices, as such the revival of antiques has gathered [...]
How to Use Tangerine Tango in Your Dining Room
January 11, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
Today we focus on using orange in the dining room. This rich, warm yet vibrant colour is ideal for stimulating taste buds as well as interior design. You can adopt a 1980’s revival approach and recover dining chairs in a zesty orange to add impact to the room. If this all seems too much splashed [...]
New Colours for Summer 3: Cool Blues
June 15, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
If you have been looking to redecorate any one of your rooms throughout the home, why not try using some cool summer blues as dominant colour. Using a light shade of blue is a really stylish way for you to help accentuate certain parts of the dining room. You can actually use a lighter shade [...]
New Colours for Summer 2: Clementine
June 14, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Summer is a time for barbecues, house parties and summer picnics but for some, this is the season to get handy with a paintbrush! If you do plan on having guests around this summer then you may already be thinking of redecorating your home or maybe just one area of your house.
A perfect colour for [...]
Interior Design Musical Inspirations: A Whiter Shade of Pale
June 7, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Choosing a music theme to decorate a room is a fantastic way to bring out your personality. This is a very popular way of giving a home a little touch of personalisation. It doesn’t mean that you have to plaster your walls with pictures of your favourite pop singer, but you can incorporate a theme [...]
Interior Design Musical Inspirations: 99 Red Balloons
June 6, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
If you want to take your own design to new levels then why not decide to go for a musically inspired theme. These themes are not what you would expect as they do not incorporate pictures of the artist or images from the music videos. What they do is take the essence from the lyrics [...]
How to Add the ‘WOW’ Factor to your Home 6: Focus on the Fireplace
June 4, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
A fireplace has long been the centre point of the living room in many people’s houses. It is especially the case if you live in a Victorian house. Many of these homes still have the original fireplace and chimney intact. Most of them have now been filled in but you can still decorate these areas [...]
Inspiring Ideas From Far Away Places 3: Turkey
May 25, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
You have finally decided that some of the rooms in your home are definitely looking out of date, and a bit dull looking, they now need decorating and a new style put in place. Not everybody these days has the money available to be able to go out and hire a professional interior designer, but [...]
Shake-up Your Colour Scheme 2: Bright & Cheerful
May 17, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
This time of the year is probably the most popular time when people think about decorating or redecorating rooms in their home. Summer is just around the corner and whether you want to decorate a room in your home as it has become outdated, or maybe you are considering putting your house on the market [...]
Shake-up Your Colour Scheme 1: Trendy Camel
May 16, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
One of the best and most economical ways of decorating any room in your home is to just give your walls a coat of paint. If you do this to say, your bedroom you will be amazed at the transformation that can take place, and in a short space of time. You will [...]
