Category Archive for 'home decor'

Christmas Ornaments

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Traditionally today is the day to put up the Christmas decorations in our home. Many of our clients ask us about decorating their homes for Christmas, particularly about the latest trends and where to buy the Christmas Ornaments..

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Eco living

Friday, November 16th, 2007

This is very weird. I was just about to write a post about eco-materials and was searching for previous eco-related posts so as to be able refer back to them. Well, I couldn’t find any! We have been running this blog for two years now and surely we have written about being green, the importance […]

Ikea Catalogue 2008

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

There was a time when I was so excited to receive the new IKEA catalogue that I immediately dropped everything else in order to browse through it. But those days are long gone. I only just opened the new catalogue today, having received it more than a month ago. And I’m yet again quite disappointed..

This […]

Wall covering

Friday, March 16th, 2007

As I mentioned in my previous posts regarding wallpaper, the new trend is to have unique or customised wall covering. Here are a couple of suggestions:Instead of wallpaper, use stickers or images like this hanger on your wall:
Check out Marmarco for other ideas. Alternatively stencil large images such as cherry tree twigs, large palms leaves […]

Happy New Year

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Firstly we wish all our readers a Happy New Year!Secondly, further to our article about the timing of Christmas Decoration - this is to remind you that today is the day to take off and put away all your decor. This is not only tradition, but according to some customs, it’s bad luck if you […]

Trendy Christmas decoration

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

In the previous article we discussed when it’s the most suitable time to put up your Christmas Decorations. If you decided not to do it on St Nicholas’ day (6th dec) which was yesterday, the next traditionally suitable day is the St Lucia’s day (13th Dec).
In the meantime you should purchase or make all the […]

Silly season

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

The silly season has started - the office parties, dinner parties, shopping trips, Christmas decoration dilemmas. This comes with the usual stress, over eating, binge-drinking and panicking.  Most of us are competitive and we want to provide or organise a better happening than last year, and certainly a better one that others do.
Here is a […]

Halloween

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Winter is here again - the weather’s getting greyer and colder, the clock went back to GMT making the shorter-getting days even shorter - and, as a consequence, most of us are getting grumpy, sad and miserable. Before the sparkling Christmas decorations go up and the office parties start, there is not much to cheer […]

Design mistakes

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Being an interior designer has its disadvantages. We never finish our work. Not only do our minds keep going after the end of the day, but friends and family members constantly ask us for advice regarding their homes. Mainly about decoration issues, but sometimes about spatial design too. However, they hardly ever follow our advice. […]

The Perfect Home

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Did you watch The Perfect Home last night on More4?
At last someone publicly questions the British housing phenomenon of living in reproduction buildings. We designers don’t quite understand why anyone would want to live in a new building that looks two hundred years old??? OK, wanting to live in a period house or wanting to […]