Style The Art Deco Look
Influenced by exotic motifs from far-flung locales, old Hollywood glamour and sleek geometric designs, the Art Deco epoch offered some of the 20th century’s most iconic and glamorous interiors. Design...
View ArticleSlice Of Paradise
Award-winning designer Nicky Dobree teaches us how to create the perfect holiday home by channeling the glamour of the 1950s starlets who once graced the Riviera. Complete with a perennial colour...
View ArticleRevamp Your Hallway
They say that first impressions are lasting ones and that we make up our minds about a person within the first few seconds of meeting them. Same goes for our homes. Entryways are often the unforgotten...
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Stylish Storage
We might as well just face it, the S word – which comes as such a drag to those who envision a show home level of pared back perfection – is a fundamental consideration for our homes. As much as it may...
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How To Decorate For Christmas
Decking the halls is always a highlight of the run up to Christmas. As the weather begins to cool, cosy layering comes into play; the dark nights call for room-enhancing glistening accents; and more...
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Refresh Your Guest Bedroom
With the inevitable Christmas guest influx on the snow-clad horizon, now’s as good a time as any to get your abode into proper hotel-worthy order. Of course, if any room is to channel that...
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How To Choose Bedding
What with putting the indulgence of Christmas behind us and bidding adieu to another year, January is the month of new beginnings. And what could be a better way to start the year (not to mention,...
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Feng Shui Your Bedroom
Feng shui, a set of traditional Chinese design principles, is an interior design discipline that might just change your life. The practice – which has been around for millennia – aims to harmonise you...
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Personalise Your Home Office
Working from home can be both a blessing and a curse. You’re in comfortable walking distance of the fridge but you’re also dangerously close to the remote. The best way to keep your concentration and...
View ArticleGet Moody
Purist modern interiors are very refreshing and brilliantly uncomplicated but we are quite fond of the attitude change of modern interior projects of late. Offering a dramatic sea-change in the...
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Plan The Perfect Room
Tip 1. Assess Your Space Although Sophie admits that the first stage is perhaps the most boring of the design process, the designer explains that it’s critical – “You really have to do your planning...
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Design A Well-Proportioned Space
Some call it an eye for design that can’t be taught whilst the Greeks had it down to a fine art and even had a formula to prove it – their golden ratio algorithm has been used for everything from the...
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Avoid Common Interior Design Mistakes
Albert Einstein once said, “anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new” which is a nice sentiment until you have to live with it. It’s true – some mistakes do need to be rectified...
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How To Decorate With Colour
Most people find themselves having a love/hate relationship with colour – a design element which creative influentials from Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (“Colour is a power which directly...
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8 Tips For Decorating With Your Partner
Forget money problems, the test of any good relationship is the civility with which a couple endure the trials of setting up house. You both have habits, possessions and styles which somehow need to...
View ArticleHow To Display Art In Your Home
Interior designer and art enthusiast April Russell offers her top tips on art displays
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How to Master Parisian Style Interiors
It’s not often that simplicity really wows. It’s a hard thing to do. Unlike any opulent and intricate styles, simplicity (by definition) is understated, quiet and straightforward. So it’s wowing...
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