In terms of choosing furniture in your home, picking out your dream sofa is up there with the most important. I’d say it’s probably the second most important behind choosing your bed (you spend more time in your bed!).
There are plenty of factors to take in to consideration such as colour and style to make sure it fits in with your living rooms colour scheme. You also have to pick a fabric that you will enjoy spending time on!...
13.5.13
5.12.12
DIY v Interior Designer?
So you decided to take the leap and have made your mind up. Time to redecorate! So who should do it? Should you hire an interior design company or should you go it alone? Well we found this little infograph that may just help, it weighs up the pros and cons whether or not to hire someone to help or to wade into the world of interior design on your own.
Whilst mainly targeted to the American market the...
24.11.11
Our 9 top colour tips to brighten up the house for Christmas
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21.9.11
Simple design in the living room
After my last post on Copenhagen Design Week, I've been thinking about how to incorporate some great functional design into my living room.Danish designers have got it so right, and I think the simplicity of such clean design is missing in a lot of living rooms - especially mine right now. Naturally, the living room is where a lot of time spent - so we usually need to incorporate several parts of life into the interior design of one room....
Copenhagen Design Week
At the start of this month the Copenhagen Design Week took place - a whole week of talks and presentation featuring mostly Scandinavian design.As a big fan of Scandinavian furniture design, I was extremely dissapointed that I couldn't go - and geography kept us apart. But luckily some feedback from the events gave me the chance to learn about some great new designers - and I got some great ideas for my living room, which I am currently redorating (when am I not). Here are some of the things I wish I'd managed to get too.Four...
17.5.11
The Search for A New Couch
It may sound easy - but searching for a new sofa is a lot more difficult than it looks.As the focal point of any contemporary living room, a couch needs to tie together comfort, style, usability and durability - as well as being the right size and shape for the room it is going to be placed in.Yes, sofas have a number of standards to meet -and we haven't even discussed the price yet. Many sofa stores run promotions all year round, so great...
14.5.11
Shining a Light on the Effects of Wall Lamps
Shamefully, lighting used to be the last thing most people thought about when decorating their living room.I have to admit I have done it myself - choosing colourschemes, couches and carpets used to seem far more interesting. Matching lampshades and a couple of table lamps could be found after the job was complete.But my eyes are open now -lighting can set the tone for an entire room on its own. Take these wall lights for example. Not...
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