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Tips, tricks, ideas and opinions - I blog about the Interior Design industry, new techniques, fabrics, products and goings on in the Interior Design scene.


How to avoid classic kitchen design mistakes

How to avoid classic kitchen design mistakes

Kitchens make homes – it’s not just where we spend time preparing and storing food. Today’s kitchens are important places for socialising and relaxing too, which is why a beautiful and functional space is so important in a home. Style and substance go hand in hand when it comes to successful kitchen design.

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5 tips for choosing the right paint colour

5 tips for choosing the right paint colour

If you’re decorating a room, it’s important to get the colours right. Finding the perfect colour can be tricky though, especially when there are so many options and so much to think about. Keep reading to take a look at some of our top tips for choosing the right paint colour.

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What to expect

What to expect

Explaining a little bit on how we work and what makes us different!

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5 days to a lovely lounge

5 days to a lovely lounge

There’s lots of reasons you just need things to happen at the right time when completing work on your house – little ones running around, getting ready for a big event you’re hosting or just simply a little bit of impatience and wanting everything completed now! The key is a well planned timetable and fantastic trades all booked in and ready to go.

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Autumn/Winter launches at Habitat

Autumn/Winter launches at Habitat

As a long standing lover of Habitat, it was brilliant to head along to view their new range and you can read all about the next collection in my post for Heart Home Magazine by clicking here:

https://hearthomemag.co.uk/


Guest Blogging for Heart Home Magazine

Guest Blogging for Heart Home Magazine

Very pleased to announce my first blog post for Heart Home Magazine is live!

Launched in September 2011, British Interior Design magazine Heart Home is a quarterly publication celebrating all that is unique and good about interior decor and lifestyle.  Championing independent British Designers and inspiring readers to create their own great British Homes

You can read my tips on injecting colour in to your home in unusual ways here


Getting creative with wood flooring

Getting creative with wood flooring

For me, wood flooring is the vanilla of the flooring world – it works with tons of schemes and styles; is practical and easy to keep clean and adds warmth and colour to the room. When chosen right, it provides the perfect base layer to the scheme. When wrong, is looks artificial and oh so boring. I have literally looked at hundreds and hundreds of wood flooring samples during my design time and there’s 3 key ways to get it just right;

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How To: 2. Create a stunning lampshade

How To: 2. Create a stunning lampshade

The next step in the ‘How To’ series shows the stages that go in to making bespoke lampshades

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How To: 1. Make your perfect sofa…

How To: 1. Make your perfect sofa…

There is a lot of detail and knowledge behind all of our designs and so thought I’d share it with you in a new series of ‘How To’ blog posts. Up first – Sofas and Chairs!

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Voted ‘Best of 2013’!

Voted ‘Best of 2013’!

I was absolutely thrilled to receive an email from Houzz.com letting me know that I’d been voted ‘Best of 2013’ as my work is some of the most popular amongst their 11 million users!

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Mark Alexander 2013 New Fabric and Wallpaper Collections

Mark Alexander 2013 New Fabric and Wallpaper Collections

The catalogue for the new Mark Alexander range landed on my desk last week and it is absolutely stunning! I’ve always really liked the designs Mark Alexander produces and made use of the beautiful fabrics and wallpapers in previous projects.

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Tricky Windows – think outside the box…

Tricky Windows – think outside the box…

We all see the beautiful windows on websites, magazine and in adverts – where rooms are perfectly proportioned and windows are the ideal size and shape for the room. They look stunning and really simple to achieve. But in real life it’s not always the case, and dressing your windows to their best can often be very tricky. There might be radiators in the way, a pipe running nearby, lack of wall space, or a bright bright light outside, all of which are little hurdles to overcome to create the right living space. Read the full article


Feature Tiles – update your bathroom!

Feature Tiles – update your bathroom!

If you keep up to date with your home magazines, apparently metro tiles (the lovely old fashioned brick type ones) are now a design cliché. So what should you use instead?

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