When we buy our first house we can’t afford new stuff to fill it but with thought, there are lots of ways we can upgrade our home decorating and freshen up the design of our homes.  For a quick home refurb and refresh, the best place to start is in the living room.  Looking atContinue Reading Charity Warehouse Comes Up Furnishing Trumps

There have been the usual selection of adverts on commercial and catch up tv for decorating and house refurishment products. The secret to getting the job done swiftly and with no time, energy or cash being wasted is probably to engage a professional interior designer and decorator to really look at the rooms you wantContinue Reading Spacial Awareness Needed For Room Decor Appeal

I have taken to looking at lots and lots of magazine on a new online gizmo that I saw advertised.  I cannot believe how fantastic this idea is – so many publications in front of my very eyes.  There seems to be a limit of 6 months back issues available per magazine, but even so,Continue Reading Inspiration From Homestyle Magazines Really Counts

Whilst waiting for a favourite decorating / furnishing and design programme to come on, I was watching one of those bargain / antique searching shows – originally recorded and shown some years ago but essentially an over excited auctioneer was racing around parts of Norfolk, seeking out good procelain, jewellery, small furniture etc. to beContinue Reading Battered Metal Chairs Make Designer’s Day

The best possible and quickest way of changing the colour in your home takes just a bit of  planning and preparation, but the results can be very long lasting. If you want to make the room’s social appeal greater, then choose warm colours from the reds, yellows and oranges.  These hues encourage activity and lifeContinue Reading Choosing The Right Colour Combinations

The early days of living together as a family can be the stuff of dreams, or quite possibly, nightmares.  The concept of  having to share and compromise, always agreeing on what colours to choose or what second hand furniture would be best bought to make it home. . . . This memory came flooding backContinue Reading Keeping The Costs Down By Staying Over

When you are furnishing any place, be it a child’s bedroom, an office in the home – even a new dining room, there needs to be serious thought about a few things first.  It’s an expensive job and extremely unwise to go racing in to the huge furnishing superstores without a really good idea ofContinue Reading Avoiding The Commission Based Sales Push

We need to keep our eyes on trends in fabrics and furnishings these days otherwise it’s proving very easy to fal behind with what’s happening in the world of homecare.  For some years there was a tendency towards a rather bleak black, black and grey, black grey and red . . . .   Personally IContinue Reading Breaking Away From The Chain Store Decor Effect

I have now got to the point in the year when it’s obvious that certain property jobs need attending to.  I have a window cleaner come fortnightly and this spring they flushed out the guttering all round, and cleaned the soffits and barge boards – so goody, that difficult bit’s done.  It’s the inside ofContinue Reading Benefits Of Engaging Interior Design Team

Oh the joy I felt when a chum said he was coming over from his home in a nice sunny mediterranean isle to do some decorating jobs with his brother, and would have 2 weeks to help me with my own house . . .   I walked him around my house using my iPad onContinue Reading To Paint Like A Trojan – To Coin A Phrase