Interior Design Ideas: Enter the Dragon into Your Kitchen
January 27, 2012 by Helen Green · View Comments
Today we turn our attention to kitchens and what better style to adopt if you love shiny surfaces, high-tech gadgets and designs which call out to be the hub of a home.
Flooring:
For practicalities tiles, wood (or wood laminate) or stone floors are ideal. To take away the coldness an elegant, yet functional kitchen rugs are [...]
How to Create a French Styled Interior
August 21, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Flamboyant and sophisticated are two words that can best describe the bold, chic style that can be found with a French styled interior. Sensuous curves, royal patterns and lots of blended colours have carried through the centuries, picking up a little more along the way. Everything is game for decorating, even the ceiling and bookcases!
White [...]
How to Create 7: How to Create a Shabby Chic Home
July 17, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
In this final part of this mini-series we’re going to give you some interior design ideas and suggestions on how to create a shabby chic interior design look in your own home. Please don’t be disillusioned by this interior design style, it takes careful consideration and an eye for detail to pull this style of [...]
How to Create 6: How to Create a Happy Home
July 16, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
This may be somewhat contentious however, there are interior design ideas and tricks that you can use to try and make your home a happy one! We all like to think that we live in a happy home and yet the toll daily lives sometimes makes this seem an impossible task. Today we’re going to [...]
What’s Your Interior Design Style? Country Cottage Chic
July 5, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
The basics:
With its roots in the British countryside this interior design style includes age-worn furnishings and furniture with natural (or deliberately stressed) chips and scuffs and faded fabrics. The aim of this style is to crate an elegant room which is causal and welcoming. One of the main features is that of recycling old furniture, [...]
Be Colour Inspired by Summer’s Fresh Bouquets 3: Mediterranean Cascading Geraniums
June 22, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
Geraniums are a really nice species of flower that are used to decorate many homes around the UK. Mediterranean cascading geraniums are characteristic of their overflowing bouquets of bright red contrasted and against pretty pinks and stunning whites. There are numerous different species to take your colour inspiration from and a mix-and-match of many of [...]
Inspiration From Morocco 1: Kitchens
January 31, 2011 by Helen Green · View Comments
I couldn’t wait to do a series on Moroccan décor in the New Year…I knew that I had to get the series out on ‘new home trends’ and the ‘colours of the year’ before anything else but I’m just very excited about this particular style for 2011.
We spoke about Global style being a major [...]
Lets Hear It For The Kids! 6 – Perfect Playrooms
September 25, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Playrooms are great if you have the space for them – its hard to work a play area into a smaller bedroom after all. If you can have a separate room for children to play in, the decorating of this room can be easier as you only have to focus on one thing – making [...]
Lets Here It For The Kids 1 – Colourful Bedroom Ideas
September 20, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
This week we want to make your children our priority and give helpful advice, inspiring ideas and amazing tips for decorating their bedrooms. From the moment they come into the world they are special and the least we can do is give them a comfortable home full of unconditional love!
Our colourful bedroom ideas are going [...]
Fabulous Film Decorating Inspiration! 3: Alice In Wonderland
September 15, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Tim Burton’s remake of the classic Alice In Wonderland had everyone talking over tea and cupcakes this summer; it influenced everything and I mean everything! Most importantly though was how it made us go all whimsical and look at home decorating as if we were blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. Oversized items were [...]
