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…
4 Tips for The Perfect House Move
Is the perfect house move possible? At a time of stress and some dysfunction, you may need four simple tips to help your sanity when you move house. Making sure you do as much as you can to have the perfect house move is important. Even the few simple tips here will help you be more organised and less stressed. Moving house is such a massive lifestyle change that you need to make sure you get it right as much as possible. Planning is one of the key elements to the perfect house move. So take on board these four…
Think Like A Decorator With Expert Tricks
Would you like to think like a decorator? We all want our homes to reflect our personalities and suit our lifestyle. Those important elements don’t need to be sacrificed in order to create a home you love with the style you crave. Yes, you can easily think like a decorator with a few key tips and a mindset change. One of my key tips is to try and view the room to be redecorated as belonging to someone else. Sometimes taking a step back and not being so emotionally involved WILL help you to make better interior design decisions. So…
5 Ways Interior Designers Save You Money
Yes, interior designers save you money even though you may think their fees are beyond your budget. Well, that’s two myths I can quash in the first two paragraphs. In fact, an interior designer could save you enough money to pay for their fees. Interior designers can save you money in many ways, whilst helping you to create a functional, comfortable and stylish home. In fact, some interior designers (like me) will save you enough money to cover the interior design fees. It’s like getting an interior designer for free! It’s common to think that interior designers fluff around with…
5 Tips on Creating and Decorating Your Open-Plan Home
The open-plan home has been steadily gaining popularity with homeowners across the globe. Over the decades it’s become one of the most powerful statement designs that brings spaciousness, freedom of movement, and timeless aesthetic appeal to any home. In a modern world, the open-plan home design aims to alleviate the stress of everyday life through the smart use of space and decor, while bringing a sense of spaciousness to smaller homes. While undeniably aesthetic in nature, there are certain rules and considerations you should take into account if you want the open-plan design to come to life in your house….
Can’t Work In Your Home Office Disaster?
What has become your home office disaster was supposed to be a glorious and creative space in which you achieved your most fabulous work, right? So what went wrong? Many of us dream of the day our home workspace can become our primary working base. Imagine the freedom of being able to work somewhere you designed. What could be better for productivity? Certainly not the home office disaster you now hate. When the dream becomes a reality, it often doesn’t work out. Your home office is how you always wanted it. You’ve recently painted your walls and splashed out on…
Three New Home Office Trends for 2018
Home office trends are bigger business than ever because having an office at home is now a very normal inclusion; unlike a few years ago when a man told me I was “a girlie in a house”. Thankfully, perceptions have change considerably along with home office trends in decor. Now, if you work permanently from home or just part-time, a dedicated workspace is vital. No more using half the dining room table or perching on the edge of the breakfast bar. Importantly, working from home isn’t about lounging around in your pyjamas until midday and balancing your laptop on your…
Little By Little Unique Interiors Are Created
Unique interiors are those created from the heart with items you really love. Perhaps they were collected from your travels, passed down as heirlooms, or perhaps from another source. Hmmm…. We’ve all been there: moving into a new home and desperately purchasing items to fill up the place. Hardly a plan for unique interiors. It’s a kind of rush to make things perfect. We rapidly scour stores and the web for what we believe we need: a dining table, a bed, a sofa, a desk. The list goes on. However, most of us simply find something appropriate, purchase it, then…
Imaginative Home Renovation Ideas
Home renovation ideas abound when programs like ‘The Block’ and ‘My House Rules’ smash the ratings with viewers. But why? There are various reasons why people want to renovate their home (notwithstanding ‘The Block’): wanting to be house proud, preparing for retirement, or perhaps to simply improve the property to sell on one day. So for top comfort and top selling price, home renovation ideas need to be kept in check. Here are some facts and figures to give you an idea of why so many people are choosing to renovate these days. And whether it’s big or small, you…
Where Technology Meets Interior Design
Where technology meets interior design. What happens when these two worlds collide? There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that technology has drastically affected the way in which we live in many ways. It would be challenging to try and list all the ways that this is true. But one thing we can be sure of is that it when technology meets interior design our homes and lifestyles change significantly. For interior designers like me, responding to the ever-changing cultural landscape is an integral part of the design process. This must inevitably include paying respect to the developments in technology…
Black Flame: The Brave New Paint Colour
Black Flame is the surprisingly versatile new Taubmans 2018 Colour of The Year that’s perfectly paired with whites and tans through to berry tones. As an Interior Designer, I have to keep up-to-date with new products and ideas. What a chore… not! I love it. So I was very intrigued with Taubmans announcement of its 2018 Colour of The Year – Black Flame. Now, I like vibrant jewel colours as much as anyone, but I am also rather partial to dark and moody interiors where appropriate. Like Taubmans 2017 Color of The Year, Violent Verbena, Black Flame has chameleon-like qualities….
Sweetest Re-Love With Annie Sloan Chalk Paint
The sweetest re-love is the recycling that delights and surprises. Look past what’s in front of you and visualise what can be created in the future. If you’re the type who finds fabulous furniture on the side of the road or snags unique eBay buys for the sweetest re-love then you probably love Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. It’s the no-primer no-sanding “let’s have fun right now” paint created by an impatient recycler; Annie Sloan. One of the hottest colour trends of the season are Dusty Pinks which play nice with rose gold, green, grey, orange, rich blue, and white. Create…
New Home Build Pro’s and Con’s
A new home build can be the most exciting and creative process designed to provide you with a dream residence. Or is it all it’s cracked up to be, both negative AND positive? Building your own home doesn’t have to be something that you treat as a daunting or unthinkable option. Many people rule it out without even knowing the pros and cons of taking this path forward. On the other hand, you shouldn’t rush into a new home build without being aware of what it all entails. So, to ensure that you’re fully aware of what’s involved in all…
Open-Concept Bathroom For Master Suite A New Trend
An open-concept bathroom is the latest trend hitting master bedroom suites. Not for the faint-hearted, but they are brilliant. Lana Hawkins explains. Washing up in the same room where you sleep used to be found only in low-budget motels and dorm rooms. But, in the last decade, the open-concept bathroom / bedroom design has become a must-feature in every luxury hotel around the world. The open-concept bathroom can be difficult to imagine, especially with our modern-day notions of privacy, so it’s naturally a topic that incites a lot of controversy in the world of interior design. Most designers and customers…
Expert Advice on Starting a Renovation Project
Starting a renovation project is in equal measures exciting and daunting. ‘Out with the old’ and ‘in with the new’ means making lots of decisions for which you may not be fully prepared. Are you someone who flips through style magazines and luscious interior design coffee table books? Do you wish you lived in a space like those you see in the books and magazines? If you are planning a renovation project, then all the options and ideas can seem overwhelming. Like most projects, a plan and some expert advice helps to alleviate stress and provide structure to your renovation…
Hi, I’m Penelope Herbert, Interior Designer and Blogger. Welcome to Don’t Call Me Penny.
