How to Bring a Touch of Luxury to Your Home
Your living environment has a far-reaching impact on how you feel and plays a crucial role in your comfort and wellbeing. So, making sure your home is designed to elevate your mood and comfort levels is essential. As well as helping you to feel good, it is also crucial your home is a place you feel proud of and reflects your style. Creating a touch of luxury for your home is an excellent way to elevate the space to super stylish levels and ensure that you feel proud of your home. If you are keen to create a high-end aesthetic…
4 Ways To Instantly Improve The Look & Feel Of Your Home
Instantly improve your home with four top tips. Because your home is your sanctuary. When you come through the front door you should feel relaxed and happy. Here’s how to achieve the calm and relaxed home you deserve. Your home should be considered your “happy place” and somewhere that puts a smile on your face. Right now you may look around and realise that your house could use some updates and enhancements. So how can you instantly improve your home? You may not know where to start or what will have the greatest impact. What you choose to do depends…
6 Home Redecorating Tips From Floor To Ceiling
Home redecorating doesn’t need to be complicated. However, when you decide to change the look of your home, it can seem like a daunting task. So you’ll find these simple tips very useful. Whether it is a full-scale upgrade or just minor tweaks, all you need is some home redecorating inspiration and expert tips. Redecorating your home can be fun and very satisfying. So don’t stress out. Use these simple tips to DIY or hire an interior design professional to help you. Home redecorating should start from the floor Design and redecoration can indeed get overwhelming. However, there is a…
Personal Home Touches With Some Simple Steps
Personal home touches are exactly that – the personal touches that make your home unique to you. There are many ways to do this. However, in this post we’ll discuss three of the easiest. When someone walks into your home, they should be able to feel, and see, your personal home touches. Your home shouldn’t feel as though no-one lives there. Instead, everyone should be able to feel your vibe as soon as they walk in the door. If that’s not the case right now, create personal home touches to illustrate your personality, preferences and even travels. If you don’t…
Adding Personality to Your Small Apartment
Moving into a new, albeit small apartment, is an exciting process. However, you’ll want to make your new property feel like home straight away. This is always challenging but can be even trickier if your apartment is on the smaller side. With these handy tips and tricks, you can maximise the space you have and add heaps of personality to your small apartment: Work the building’s architecture With any luck, you’ll be moving into an apartment that looks as good from the outside as it will inside. The style of the property can give you the basis for your interior…
Vintage Embroidery To Enhance Your Existing Decor
It’s hard to deny the timeless quality vintage embroidery pieces bring to your home. Their distinct properties and personalities bring your home to life in a way contemporary pieces can’t. However, some vintage pieces seem to be more popular than others, whether it’s furniture, lamps, or even media from an era gone by. If there’s one type of vintage piece that tends to get wrongfully overlooked quite often, though, it’s vintage embroidery. If you thought embroidery was only for white cloths in wooden hoops, think again. Embroidered pieces are imbued with delicate artistry that is unrivaled, and intact vintage embroidery…
Putting Down Roots: Making a New Property Feel Like ‘Yours’
Putting down roots can be difficult. Many of us move around a fair bit during our early adult years. We move away to college or university, followed by student houses and apartment shares shortly after. Later on, you might move out alone or with a partner until eventually scouring sites like Bloomdale and deciding on a place that we want to stay in for the foreseeable future. It’s this property that you want to make ‘home’, you want to be putting down roots and transforming it into a place where you genuinely love spending time. But what exactly can you…
Redecorating Bedrooms: Style and Savings
Social media platforms like Instagram and Pinterest, are chocked full of images of stylish, modern bedrooms at the moment. Bedrooms that any style-conscious person would be happy to recreate in their own home, if only they had the money. Well, before you shelve the idea altogether, read my post below as it’s stuffed with tips that can help you to re-decorate your bedroom space in this style without having to clear out your savings. If the all white walls are too intense for you, add artwork to add colour and texture. White walls One of the defining features of a…
Increasing Natural Elements to Beautify Your Home
The presence of natural elements can have a very calming effect on us and helps to relieve stress. If you can increase the influence of nature in your home, you can create a far more welcoming and relaxing space for yourself. These are some of the best ways to bring the natural world into your home and increase the natural elements to beautify your home. The Best Natural Elements Are Plants Some good house plants give your home a very natural feel and they’re a great way to decorate the house without spending much money at all. They’re also good…
7 Upscale Additions to Create a Unique and Chic Abode
Think you can’t afford some upscale additions to your home? Maybe you’re right. But what if you’re wrong? What if some upscale additions ARE in your budget? In your spare time, you like to flick through home design magazines envisioning what your beloved home would look like with upscale additions and innovative design techniques. For as long as you can remember, you have always striven to make your home a chic and unique place to live. You pride yourself on updating your themes and schemes on a regular basis. However, there are a few more projects you have up your…
2 Easy Additions to Bring Style to Your Bedroom
Are you looking to add that extra dimension of design to your bedroom? Here are two tips you’ll LOVE (and they are budget-friendly). Adding a load of furniture or trinkets to your bedroom will make it feel cluttered. The balance between useful items and a stylish look can be difficult. For many, the bedroom is the first place that gets redecorated or redesigned. For others, it’s a last minute thought with not much detail. Regardless of your situation, there’s no reason you can’t take a few easy steps to bring some unique character to your bedroom. If you’re looking to…
How to Create a Good Office Environment
A good office environment is crucial whether you work from home or somewhere else. So use these tips to ensure creativity and productivity in your office space… wherever it is. If your team members work within the office every day, it makes sense to make it a good office environment. This means a productive, comfortable space that is welcoming and inviting, for both employees and clients. When your employees work in a happy environment daily, they are naturally more creative. They enjoy higher job satisfaction and feel like an appreciated, valued member of the team. What’s more, as a business…
Five New Year Cosy Home Ideas
New Year cosy home ideas will get you over Christmas and into a new way of thinking about how you like to decorate your home. Once the ‘chrissie decs’ come down, you may be looking for more cosy home ideas. Here they are. As we approach the festive season, many people are focusing their attention beyond Christmas and into the New Year. If you’re looking to make your home more cosy in the new year, there are some simple, easy and cheap things you can do to achieve this. In this article we’re going to take a look at…
Four New Homewares Trends You’ll LOVE in 2019
I’m awaiting the new homewares trends with great anticipation. Homewares are usually those inexpensive items you can replace fairly regularly and up-date your decor at the same time. Bring it on! Now that we are getting to the end of 2018, we have a thorough idea of what the year ahead has in store for the world of new homewares trends. Trade shows have commenced, shops have updated their product range, and experts have had their say. This means that an exciting picture of the top home product trends has been formed. From glitz and glamour to taking a walk…
Do It White! Get White Decor Right.
White decor is misunderstood. You might think that all-white rooms do little to inspire. But a correct understanding of white decor can lead to incredible interior designs. White decor can excite, relax, and create a sense of volume and space in your home. White doesn’t necessarily mean “blank canvas.” It’s a style in and of itself – and one that can create a dramatic effect. But doing white right is difficult. Here are some pointers to get you started. Consider Different Tones In White Decor People imagine that decorating with white involves using a single shade of white, painting all…
Hi, I’m Penelope Herbert, Interior Designer and Blogger. Welcome to Don’t Call Me Penny.
