December 2010
Bring Out Your Feminine Side 3: Bedrooms & Sumptuous Textiles
December 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
This post on bedrooms and sumptuous textiles, just goes to prove that you don’t have to be a woman to use feminine details – who doesn’t love a bed made up with fluffed up pillows and cosy down quilts? Textiles which are soft on the eye and to the touch, help to relax any hard [...]
Bring Out Your Feminine Side 2: Bathrooms & Curves
December 25, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Bringing out your feminine side when decorating is achieved by showing off curves as opposed to using defined lines and geometrics. Take modern design with its emphasis on geometry; this tends to lean towards a more masculine look whereas the decorative and free forms of traditional décor have a feminine quality to them that speaks [...]
Bring Out Your Feminine Side 1: Lounges & Soft Colours
December 22, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
There is no doubt that feminine décor has a certain quality to it – wouldn’t you agree girls?! What are some of the elements of feminine décor? Curves, soft colours and asymmetry are good examples and they don’t have to be inherently gender focused.
Soft colours are subtle when compared with daring and dramatic bold hues; [...]
Earth Inspired Browns 5: Colour Combinations
December 20, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
With brown being a neutral, it can be combined with all colours on the colour wheel. In a nursery, brown is softer than working with black and it pairs up great with pastel pinks or blues for little girls and little boys respectively. In living areas such as the dining room or lounge, brown is [...]
Earth Inspired Browns 4: Rustic Decorating
December 16, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
If you are a lover of the colour brown, you can even take it as your cue for a decorating style such as rustic, which we wish to look at in more detail in this post. Or if it is the other way around and you want a rustic décor to compliment your rural surrounding [...]
Earth Inspired Brown 3: Lovely Dining Rooms
December 13, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
It is a fact – dining rooms accept brown really well as a dominant colour or as an accent. Earthy browns, as we mentioned in our first post, (Earth Inspired Brown 1: Formal Or Casual?) are versatile in that they can give a formal or casual atmosphere in the home and this is especially true [...]
Earth Inspired Brown 2: Sophisticated Kitchens
December 10, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Brown has become big news in recent years; the days where brown came into décor as a wooden picture frame or other small decorative piece, has now been exchanged for more use of this earthen hue. Now we are seeing a comeback of raw or polished woods for flooring and furniture; we are even seeing [...]
Earth Inspired Brown 1: Formal Or Casual?
December 7, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
When we symbolise colours, it can help to set the right mood and atmosphere in the home; we are going to be taking a look at brown and how this Earth inspired colour can affect our decorating style. This neutral hue symbolises the Earth and represents the feeling of being grounded.
Formal Inspiration For Decorating With [...]
Festive Features 5 – Dining Rooms
December 4, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Who wants to make a bet that this was the room you anticipated the most? Decorating the dining room is actually one of the best parts of Christmas decorating – wouldn’t you agree? Your Christmas dining table all dressed up and sparkling – if you want some ideas on festive features for the table then [...]
Festive Features 4: Bedrooms
December 1, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Beautiful bedrooms become even more beautiful and welcoming this festive season with some extra special features! We take you through some easy steps to personalising your own stockings, to that we have some great tips to giving the wow factor and as a bonus – some impressive ideas for dressing up the windows for some [...]
