Seasonal
Dressing Your Windows for the Festive Season 3: Kitchens
December 9, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
This year why not include your kitchen when you put your decorations up? As a major part of the festive season revolves around food and the kitchen, don’t feel left out of the festivities simply add a little festive cheer to your kitchen!
Your window is a great place to decorate; firstly any decorations won’t get [...]
Dressing Your Windows for the Festive Season 2: Dining Rooms
December 6, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Today we’re going to turn our attention to dining room windows, offering hints and tips on ways to dress them up for the festive season. This can easily be done in a way which suits the style of your home and your existing dining room colour scheme.
Traditional:
Red and green are of course the most traditional [...]
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 [...]
Festive Features 1 – Lounges
November 22, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
In this special mini series we will be taking a look at Christmas decorations and festive features for the coming month; five rooms and plenty of wonderful ideas that will inspire you to make and create stunning centre-pieces and more!
We start in the lounge, this is one of the most important rooms to decorate for [...]
Christmas From Around The World – Australia
December 23, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Christmas is Australia is very different from what we are used to in the Northern Hemisphere. Forget white, snowy scenery because Christmas is sunshine and blues skies. You might have heard that some Australians even choose to spend their Christmas at the beach!
The major difference is the weather and with temperatures up to 35 degrees [...]
Christmas Interiors From Around The World – Scandinavian
December 17, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Light colours are used in Scandinavian festive decorations to maximum the few hours of natural daylight during the winter months. Typically homes are well insulated to retain as much heat as possible, and beds have goose or eider feather duvets along with quilted bedspreads to provide additional warmth.
Dried wheat stems are used to make table [...]
Christmas Interiors From Around The World – Northern American
December 14, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Christmas is celebrated throughout the world, with each country having it’s own traditional colour schemes and interior design styles which reflect the idiosyncrasies of their particular country.
Of course with the prolific use and ease of the internet many people are emulating other country’s decoration ideas to ring the changes, whilst others are vehemently stuck to [...]
Don’t Neglect Your Window Dressing Before The Festive Season!
December 1, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Natural and cream colours are ideal for all styles of interior décors as they blend effortlessly with existing furnishings and furniture, providing the opportunity to re-vamp the look of your rooms completely before your Christmas guests arrive.
Cream and neutral tones are perfect for giving the illusion of more space making them the ideal colour choices [...]
