Ways to display and the Law of Grouping
There’s no better way to add a punch of personality to your room than creating a feature from a personal collection. The one thing to avoid at all costs is a home that looks like it’s ripped from a page in a catalogue. Make your house a home by adding a dash of individuality, a […]
Injecting colour into a room scheme is my all time favourite way to decorate. In my view, an all-neutral scheme is just desperate for a bolt of colour to breath life into it. Take this view to the extreme and your looking at decorating in bright bold colours. ‘Colour blocking’ was a big catwalk trend […]
Ideal Home Show
This year I was invited to design 5 rooms sets for Ideal Home magazines stand at The Ideal Home Show. The theme was ‘Industrial Revolution’ which is such a wonderful brief from the editor Isobel. I began by researching the look using google images- and quickly built up some lovely mood boards featuring bare brick […]
Xylo furniture
I’ve just stumbled across a fantastic new company on the web. Xylo furniture take old, well made brown furniture, that’s no longer loved or wanted, (hence very cheap) and pimped it up with gorgeous splashes of contemporary colour. “Xylo source previously owned furniture that was created by master craftsmen using skills and techniques that […]
Upholstery project
I found this tired old chair at a car boot sale at Brighton Marina and snapped it up for £40. It looked in very good nick for such an old chair, I reckon by the shape of it it’s Georgian and still well sprung and filled with horsehair. I gave it to my friend Anna […]
