Colour Infusion With Orange 4: Bedrooms
November 25, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Why would you choose orange for a bedroom? For one, it is great for shared bedrooms as it is neither too masculine or too feminine – especially when paired with a neutral such as grey. Second, it brings warmth and a little energy to rooms with a rest/play ethos and then there is the fact [...]
Unstoppable Colour Trend Grey 4 – In The Bedroom
October 28, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Whoever said grey was miserable – whoever coined the phrase ‘grey day’ as being a negative one? These days, if I am having a grey day then I am probably happily decorating my home with touches of this years unstoppable colour trend! In the bedroom, grey creates a calm mood – a warmer shade alongside [...]
Room By Room Essentials 4 – Bedrooms
October 7, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Aside from the bed, could you think of other necessities for the bedroom? Take a look at our essential list for bedrooms that will help you get the most out of your personal space and help to get priorities right (we all want a wall hung water fountain and a plasma screen right – all [...]
Autumn Decorating Preview 5 – Mad Men Trend
September 3, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
The television series Mad Men has had a great reception here in the UK and has inspired everything from catwalks to home decorating; the latter in which we will take a look at in more detail. The show is very stylish and has helped to reinforce a love for all things retro chic along with [...]
Autumn Decorating Preview 2 – New Colour Trends
August 31, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
A new season is a great opportunity to change the colour scheme in your home and to help transform the mood within each room. With autumn on the horizon, now is a good time to start thinking about the possibilities of colour change and to look at the hues that will set the scene in [...]
Mission Possible 4 – To Update Your Home Office On A Budget
August 26, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Special Agent TF, your mission is to update our home office on a budget. After spending a large bulk of our decorating funds on every other room in the house – our home office has been left until last and we must find budget ideas all the way!
Creative Ideas For Displaying Reminders and To-Dos – [...]
Top Interior Design Tips For August – Using Summer Colours
August 5, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
A change of colour can do wonderful things to your home interior and changing colour schemes with the seasons is a great way to alter the mood and atmosphere of a room. Summer colours are light – white, pastels and sherbet tones for example. Brights are also seen as a good accent for the summer [...]
Go Continental – Free And Easy Living
July 22, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
If you have been reading our feature on going continental and decided to turn your backs on a style that that sounds too expensive to achieve then just wait a moment! True – the majority of traditional looks for the home do look expensive with their extravagant furniture (such as four poster beds) and beautiful [...]
Broaden Your Horizons – Part 6 – Be Inventive In The Study
June 26, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Not everyone has a designated study room and not everyone needs a dedicated study room. What about those of you who do? Studies don’t get half as much attention to detail as other rooms in the house and for those of us who rely on our study to inspire or spark creativity – it is [...]
Style Revival – Part 5 – 1960’s Flower Power
June 18, 2010 by Helen Green · View Comments
Up until the 1960s, 20th century Britain was in the habit of looking to the American’s for home interior styles – you only have to think of the Hollywood Glamour years and the 1950s Rock & Roll era for evidence. All that changed in the swinging sixties though as super hip London became the leader [...]
