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Bring light with mirrors
Jul 24th
Painted stair treads
We all know that a cheap way to change the effect of a room is paint, but have you thought about painting your stair treads? Painted stairs using hard wearing floor paint is a contremporary quick fix to change the hall. If you have a little more money to spare striped runners are a fashinonable design and can be fitted on top of painted stairs, with metal stair rods or without.
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Hall Floor Design
Jul 24th
Wood or tile flooring are great in the hallway because they’re easily washable, but if you’re looking for something a little softer on the feet a carpet is the obvious choice. Carpets also muffle the sound of people running up and down stairs. Choose a hard wearing, good quality wool blend, particularly on stairs to avoid it going bald across the front of the treads. Other options include natural floor coverings such as sea grass or coir which look clean and contemporary and are incredibly hard wearing.
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Hall storage ideas
Jul 24th
Hallway Design is often ignored, but it’s the usually the first room a visitor sees, and we all know how first impressions last! Use the hall to provide insight into your family personality and display photos, paintings, rugs or bold wallpaper. The hallway is also the first thing you see when you got home each day so make it refreshingly clear and uncluttered. Keep clutter out of the way using clever storage ideas.
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Get the Look Royal Britannia
Jul 20th
As the name suggests, this interior design style has a traditional feel and uses large furniture peices and feelings of 1940′s wartime items in a contemporary way. Chose bold but simple patterns inspired by the reworking and re-colouring of classic men’s suiting fabrics e.g. tweed, herringbone and plaids to coordinate a cheerful combinations with upholstered furniture that has patches of appliqué, cushions, throws, lampshades and even wallpaper!
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Coordinate a room
Jul 20th
Mismatched pieces of furniture in a room can look out of place. Create a cohesive room by redecorating or recovering them in the same colour to bring the room together. If you have a painting, photograph or fabric that you want to be the focal point of the room, isolate two or three of the most prominent colours from the item to form the basis of your colour scheme and the article itself will draw the colours together to make a beautiful interior design. More >
Colour Scheme Theories
Jul 20th
Complementary or contrasting colours are opposite each other on a colour wheel, such as orange/blue, red/green, yellow/violet. Interior designers often use these contrasting combinations by painting walls in one colour, such as blue, and then use the complementary colour, in this case orange, as an accent through smaller objects like a lampshade, cushion or clock.
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Get inspired with your home design
Jul 20th
Interior design inspiration can come from anywhere – a picture on a wall, a friend’s house, an office or coffee shop you’ve visited, magazines, adverts, TV, holidays or travels etc. Look around you for colour schemes which work well together. Create a mood board with anything that inspires you like swatches, magazine pictures and colours.
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Top tips for paint colours
Jul 20th
Colours can seem very different when they are positioned next to other complimentary or contrasting colours in a room so hold a colour swatch next to your furniture or accessories before you buy.
Dark colours will almost always make a room look smaller so use very bright or dark colours sparingly in smaller rooms. If you’re desparate to use a particular colour, use it in a small area (perhaps just one wall) alongside lighter colours and make it into a feature. More >
How do I chose a colour scheme?
Jul 20th
The design and colour scheme of your home is very important – these days many of us not only use our home as a place to rest, relax, bring up a family and entertain, but also where we work. Choosing the right colour scheme has been proven in studies to influence your mood where red is energising; amber – emotional; green – restless; blue – peaceful More >
Interior Design: Where do I start?
Jul 19th
The first thing to think about when creating a new room design is to think about what you will use the room for? A living room isn’t used in the same way for everyone – do you watch TV, read a book or practice yoga? Do you entertain guests or children? The use needs to be the priority, and the design should be around that.
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