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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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
If you’re thinking about going to the Home Show at Excel, but haven’t bought your ticket yet, don’t bother. I went yesterday and wasn’t very impressed. It’s not about ideas for homes – it’s more like a furnishing bazaar and upmarket food hall. It’s really not worth it. Most of the “exhibitors” don’t even offer [...]
There are a few golden rules when it comes to decorating successfully. There are also a few no-no’s that can make your home look like a designer crime scene. To avoid being ridiculed by the design-conscious, at least do not commit any of the following three absolute no-no’s:.. This is a preview, read Decorating No-Nos [...]
It’s Christmas time again. Have you done your Xmas deco yet? If you’re after the designer look, this is what this year’s look is all about: The keywords are opulence and decadence. Black is the dominant colour paired with ivory, red, silver, gold, bronze or pink (the trendiest of all). Luxurious materials define the look [...]
Interior Design & Decor Ideas for the autumn The clocks went forward yesterday, and the days will get shorter, colder, greyer and, until Christmas, it is officially Autumn. During these months we tend to spend more time indoors and surround ourselves with warming, comforting, relaxing foods and objects. We take out our winter duvet, the woolly [...]
Hi, Welcome to our new online service – our interior design blog. We’ll publish every week interior design ideas and decorating tips that our clients have found useful. If you have any suggestions or questions you can tell/ask us by adding a comment below the posts. Hopefully we’ll be able to help you to create [...]