Designing A Warm Bedroom For The Winter
Designing a warm bedroom when it’s cold and wintry outside is a simple luxury within the reach of most home owners and renters. Just a few simple tips and you’ll be toasty and cozy in no time. Your bedroom is quite possibly the comfiest room in your house. It’s the place where you can lie back and relax, with a good book and a strong wifi connection. However, designing a warm bedroom isn’t just about being covered in blankets with a soft mattress beneath you. You can dig through the wardrobe and put on your own comfy style parade. Dress…
Is Your Living Room Ready To Fight The Chill?
Is your living room ready to fight the good fight against winter chills? Autumn is coming to an end for some of our readers. And with that comes wind, rain and, most of all, the cold. It’s time to batten down the hatches, put on the woolly protective gear and prepare for a battle against winter. Being living room ready means beating the winter blues and having a wonderfully warm and cozy time. Your living room is going to be your headquarters throughout the gloom, so here’s how you get it in fighting condition. Being Living Room Ready #1: Reinforce…
Beat Winter Blues With These Home Improvements
Beat winter blues with four surprisingly easy home improvement ideas that will keep you snug as a bug in a rug. Everyone tries their hardest to prepare their home for upcoming seasons. To beat winter blues, most people will have heating units and radiators cleaned and refreshed to prevent them from getting blocked. Others will have their insulation inspected and perhaps replaced. Are you one of the fortunate ones considering replacing your central heating with a completely new system? Then when the glow of summer arrives you may find yourself installing window film to keep the solar rays out. Others…
Autumn Home Styling With A Difference: Hygge (hue-gah)
Autumn home styling isn’t simply about adding leafy motifs to your decor and putting throws on the sofa. Far from it, actually. Now that we in Australia are in the full swing of autumn, it’s time to start thinking about changing your home decor to suit the season. In the warm weather, we tend to declutter with spring cleaning opening all the doors and windows to refresh the air. Whereas in autumn and winter we seek the warmth of interior home comforts. After all, with the weather turning cooler more of us want to enjoy the great indoors rather than…
Luxurious Winter Bedroom Ideas With Suede, Velvet and Faux Fur
In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s time for luxurious winter bedroom ideas and we have the BEST new luxe looks. You’ll sleep beautifully with new directions in suede, velvet, and fur so channel your sexiest gypsy bohemian. When it comes to a rich mix of luxe then layering is the perfect bedtime partner. New this season are shades of dreamy smoke, cool teal, rich blue, and luxurious molten gold all in velvet and faux suede. Layer up with a textural mix that will make it hard to get out of bed. Winter Bedroom Ideas: Morrison Smoke and Parker Teal Platinum is…
Why Provincial Furniture Is the Choice of Modern Homeowners
Provincial furniture, whilst historic in origin, is one of the trends a modern homeowner is looking for to improve the décor of their homes. While some prefer a more rustic look, others consider a complete blend of the traditional with modern to be de rigeur. The tastes of many homeowners are largely reflected in the kinds of furniture that they choose. If you are thinking of a contemporary way of designing the look and feel of your interiors, the provincial furniture will certainly prove to be a great option for you. These items are perfectly designed in such a way…
Get Ready for Winter : Firepits
Firepits are the greatest invention for enjoying glorious evenings outdoors in the winter. They are flexible in design, available as wood-burning or gas, and create a feature for entertaining. Now that I live in the beautiful Mount Lofty Ranges, in a quaint English-style village, I know what it’s like to be cold in the winter. Sometimes the temperature difference is 10 degrees between the city and the hills. That’s great for summer heatwaves but not so fabulous when it’s 9 degrees in winter.
Yana Molodykh Designed Art Deco Apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine. Small + Stunning.
Yana Molodykh channeled ‘Sex and The City’ for a tiny 85 m2 apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine, which is now a glorious Art Deco-inspired space for a young couple. Fountain Boulevard is a modern and private residence for a cosmopolitan couple. Having lived in the big cities of New York and Moscow, the young owners wished to buy their first home together in their home town.
How to Decorate Your Home for Christmas
It’s that time of the year and Christmas is getting near. Some of you may have started decorating your homes early, but there are still some people who didn’t have the time. If you still haven’t put up your festive decorations, don’t panic, because you can do it fast. You just need to know a few tricks in order to decorate your home quickly and with taste.
Pastel Interior Decor for Modern Homes
Pastel interior decor is a soft alternative to moody blues, industrial grey and modern pops of colour. Now you can take the guess work out of designing a new bedroom or living room with beautiful curated packages. NATHAN + JAC curated collections of bespoke and on-trend interior curated looks include Bedroom, Living and Accessories packs, handpicked by founders and Melbourne based stylists; mother/daughter duo Tammy Nathan and Jacqui Zarkovic from Styling Properties and Bec Astrinakis from Rebecca Ellie Studio. To READ MORE please click on the title.
New Florence Broadhurst Bedlinen AW 16
Jump into bed this winter with one of my favourite Australian designers – the iconic Florence Broadhurst. The new Florence Broadhurst Autumn/Winter 2016 bedlinen collection has just been released and it features some of her most inspirational and iconic designs that will surely bring a warm glow to the coldest of bedrooms. If you have a love affair with denim and indigo blue, then you’ll love the new collection of bold patterns, moody blues and soft mink. This gorgeous new collection includes Birds of Paradise Denim and Florence Indigo –featuring moodier blues that create a hint of dark drama mixed…
Are Men Taking More Interest In The Bedroom?
I had a wonderful interview on my 88.9FM radio show with Dimity Green, Product & Marketing Manager for Legend Australia. If you saw my article on Get Into Bed with the Best of British then you’ll know who is Dimity Green. We touched on the issue of designing bedlinen for men, because not all men have a female partner, or indeed a partner at all, to buy bedlinen. So many men do buy it for themselves; and they generally have different criteria. But are men taking more interest in the bedroom than they used to? Bedrooms, or the the styling…
Inside Christina Aguilera’s Beverly Hills Estate
From the moment you enter Christina Aguilera’s Beverly Hills Estate, you know you are going to have fun. With a powerhouse voice, Christina Aguilera has risen to global stardom for actually having talent. How refreshing. She’s also a gal who is determined, opinionated, bold and colourful; her home reflects that. So come on a fascinating journey into Christina Aguilera’s Beverly Hills Estate with interiors by Woodsen and Rummerfield’s House of Design. The entry foyer is a showcase for Christina’s love of pink, and the unexpected, with a D*Face painting commanding attention. The David Hicks inspired wallpaper has been cleverly used…
A Sea of Colour for The Bedroom
While the cold wind is whistling past your house and the heating is in over-drive, you probably aren’t thinking too much about warmer weather…except if you are fantasizing about being on a hot sandy beach with a fresh majito..now THERE’S an idea. How about a sea of colour for the bedroom instead? But very soon, bedrooms will be awash with ocean blues, aquamarines and sand or driftwood neutrals with Legend Australia, one of the country’s leading bedlinen designers and manufacturers, releasing the first of its Spring/Summer colour palettes for 2015/16. Pacific Navy by Royal Doulton is bright, bold and…
How to Add Feminine Charm to a Bachelor Pad
We’ve all done it. Met a guy, love him but dubious on his decor. Of course it’s a romance busting move to try and change his decor…particularly if you don’t live in his home. So how can you add feminine charm to a bachelor pad without ruining the relationship? Sarah Cichy is the Founder of Sydney’s Homewares and Décor Public Relations agency, Piccolo PR, and she investigates this tricky balancing act. Creating a harmonious balance between gender-specific elements is essential when designing an inviting room fit for all. Traditionally, men are more inclined to purchase ‘functional’ furniture that are practical…
Hi, I’m Penelope Herbert, Interior Designer and Blogger. Welcome to Don’t Call Me Penny.
