How to add personality to your kitchen
The kitchen is the engine room of the home and like many of you I’m sure, we spend most of our time as a family in the kitchen. In fact, that is one of the main reasons we wanted to switch the rooms around last year – it didn’t make sense us all cramming into […]
Style your home using Colour Psychology
So how are the new year intentions going! I’ve been overwhelmed with work not to mention the house renovations. What a new years fail already as my main intention this year was not to feel too busy! But with lots of exciting projects on the go I’m not grumbling though. The next few weeks see’s […]
Next in my series of blog posts about seasonal personalities is autumn. Now just to quickly recap, I’m exploring the psychology of colour because I think it’s an wonderful tool to streamline the design process. We are literally bombarded with visual stimulus, trends, latest looks, magazines, not to mention the rabbit hole that is Pinterest. […]
It’s no surprise that I’m absolutely fascinated by the rich and diverse world of colour and I’m fascinated how the psychology can provide a framework to pull together colours, textures, pattern and styles that will work together. As a designer it’s something I get to indulge in every day, and after twenty years in the […]
How to make a birdcage pendant light
One of the things I loved most during my time judging The Great Interior Design Challenge was seeing the breath taking ingenuity, and puff of smoke brilliance of the contestants ability to make something out of nothing. The fact that they only get £1000 gets often critisised and along with the timescale undoubtedly compromises the […]
I recently got one of those pinch me commissions, to design a She-shed, by the lovely people at Hillary’s. A staggering 51% of sheds are being bought by women and I’m beginning to understand why. No longer the sole domain of man, she-sheds are a place outside the home where women can have some space […]
