How to Create a Cottage Style Home
We all fell in love with Kate Winslet’s stunning country cottage in The Holiday. Quaint, perfectly formed with beams and thatched roof and a host of details that made it…
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Oriental Décor in a Modern Bedroom
We’re just starting to get the first glimpses of spring with ever-so-slightly longer days and brighter skies. Soon, we’ll be welcoming in the first buds bursting through the ground. What…
How to Transform Your Home’s Smallest Spaces With a Sofa Bed
With the Christmas holidays just around the corner, you might be casting an eye around your home, wishing it were about 10 times bigger. Where will the tree go? Do…
How to use sofa beds for space saving
If you ask us, sofa beds have a bit of an undeserved reputation. Too often, people tell us that they’re unsightly, uncomfortable, or unwanted. But we know that that’s simply…
Styling Your Bedroom: How to Decorate with Blue
The psychology of the colour blue is well researched. The colour of the calm sea and a clear sky, blue provides us with feelings of peace, security and tranquillity, making…
Cosy Up Your Bedroom For Winter
The temperatures have dropped (finally!), the clocks have gone back, the central heating has come on, the wood burner is back in action and, in short: winter is on its…
How To: Create The Perfect Bedroom Atmosphere
Creating the perfect bedroom atmosphere can be a tricky subject. What’s atmospheric to one person might feel stuffy to another, and what another person considers calm could feel cold to…
Hotel chic for your bedroom
A few weeks back I stayed at a swanky hotel for work. I'm usually more of a B&B or Airbnb type as I prefer quirky and homely interiors and homes with personality as opposed to 'designed' rooms. However, every once in a while it's just lovely to indulge something a little more luxurious and have room service available, don't you think? And that made me think.
7 Creative Bedroom Ideas to Try This Weekend
When it comes to our bedrooms, most of us will naturally go with décor that's calm and serene. And of course, that makes sense when we want our bedrooms to be a sanctuary away from the rest of our house - somewhere we can go at the end of the day and recharge our batteries. However, what often happens is that we try so hard to make our bedrooms look 'calm' that they can very easily cross the line to 'boring'. And if there's one thing that's not very enjoyable at all it's a boring, bland, flat room with no personality.
How to Create a Focal Point in a Room
Creating or making best use of a focal point is really important when you're designing your room scheme. A focal point is one specific feature within the design, that draws the eye towards it. It stands out and says, 'look at me' and you can't help but see it. Often it's an existing feature within the room, like a fireplace or stunning bay window, but often we need to create our own focal points from key furniture items, soft furnishings or accessories. Once you get the hang of it, it's really easy to do, and you'll find yourself naturally doing it as part of your interior decor.