Room of the Week – 60s inspired bedroom
This weeks Room of the Week is a 60s inspired bedroom. From the House to Home galleries this bedroom features brightly coloured geometric patterns that are once again in fashion.
The mixture of patterns and colours in this room creates a widely colourful bedroom. After many years of plain neutrals colour is very much now back in fashion. With Spring approaching it’s a great time to think about adding some excitement to your interior!
Could your interior win you a trip to Miami?
A competition that involves showcasing your interior design skills and could win you a trip to Miami sounds like a dream doesn’t it? To promote the launch of Perfect Penthouse, their new insurance package Trident Insurance has just launched the competition that runs until 31 March and could see you jetting off to Florida.
For a chance to win entrants must upload a picture of their own interior to the Trident Facebook page. The winner is the person whose picture has the most Facebook likes. The grand prize includes Virgin Atlantic flights for 2, accommodation at the Dream Hotel South Beach and £1,000 spending money.
Crate & Barrel
Today we are featuring one of my favourite interiors stores Crate & Barrel. It suddenly struck me last night that despite shopping there for years I haven’t featured them on my own blog. While you previously had to get on a plane to the USA to shop at Crate & Barrel the great news is that they now ship to the UK.
Blanco … a Blog Tour NYC sponsor
A kitchen sink is just a sink right? Wrong – think again! The kitchen sink is a very important aspect of planning a kitchen. There are so many options and your sink needs to reflect how you will use the kitchen. Will you be busy preparing vegetables every night or realistically will you just need a place to rinse out the champagne flutes?
Little Greene Retrospective Papers
Little Greene had one of the best stands at Decorex last year. The giant figures on their stand featured colours from their Retrospective paint range. The group included a giant telephone in Trumpet, a soldier in Atomic Red and a Marigold submarine. Little Greene have now extended the Retrospective range to include some very colourful wallpapers.
Room of the Week – tranquil bathroom
This weeks Room of the Week is a tranquil bathroom. From the House to Home galleries this bathroom has a calm neutral colour scheme that creates a wonderful place to relax and forget about your troubles.
Corporion
Visiting trade shows is recognised as a part of a designers job. We attend great shows but we also go to shows where you find nothing new. Thankfully a recent visit to the Surface Design Show was a designers dream. Almost as soon as I arrived at the show I found the Corporion stand. I was drawn to the occasional table covered with crackle glaze tiles and also the amazing animal print textured tiles on display.
4 products for 4 rooms … hallway living cooking bathing
I’m running a series of blog posts, each covering product recommendations. These are products I have usually specified for clients, so I know they work well. There will be 4 products for 4 different rooms.
Hallway
We recently specified a rug from Stepevi for a clients apartment in Chelsea. We wanted a signature rug for the hallway that would make a statement when visitors arrive. The hallway is finished in a dusky grey colour and the Harvest rug in purple shades works perfectly. The rug is constructed from vintage rugs that have been re-dyed and hand stitched together.
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Miele USA … a Blog Tour NYC sponsor
Specifying kitchen appliances is never an easy job for a designer. Clients constantly say there is too much choice hence they ask for help from a designer – but sometimes we can’t decide either! If you also love to cook, as I do, you’ll probably spend hours reading brochures and reviewing the latest specifications. After all this reading though I think we all secretly have a favourite … and for a long time mine has been Miele.
Next month I am attending Blog Tour NYC in New York organised by Modenus. I will be featuring all the very generous sponsors who make the tour possible on my blog in the next 6 weeks before we leave. Today I am so pleased to be showcasing my appliance company of choice, MieleUSA.
Room of the Week – Industrial kitchen
This weeks Room of the Week is an industrial style kitchen. From the House to Home galleries this room features some hard functional elements that are softened by use of zingy yellow in the accessories.
