A kitchen is an essential communal space in any home; it’s where many rituals of nourishment and fellowship take place. From preparing and sharing healthy meals to helping children complete their homework, it’s important to conceive and implement the perfect kitchen design. Twenty-first century kitchens come in a diverse range of styles, including aspects of […]
Picture Perfect Living – Creative Storage Solutions
When it comes to interior design, everyone wants a home that looks spectacular. In many cases, homeowners may want their home to look like it was ripped from the pages of the latest design magazine. However, the problem with such aspirations is that a picture is a single snapshot. For actual homeowners, life is much […]
Interior Design – Dining room ideas
Not all homes afford the luxury of a dedicated dining area, this may be a shared area with an informal lounge ,a more casual eating zone in the kitchen, or even an outdoor space, but with a little careful planning with your interior design scheme you may be able to come up with an area where dining […]
Interior Design – A model for success
Whilst CAD plans and hand drawings are useful tools in the presentation of interior design schemes and creative ideas 2D graphic expression remains open to a wide range of interpretation both by the observer and the designer. Your client may be an expert in a chosen field but may be flummoxed when required to interpret […]
Interior Design – Lighting Design Part Two
Lighting methods In order to produce great lighting schemes it is important to have an understanding of the balance between light and shade, and if used skilfully, can really articulate a design scheme, adding those ultimate, invisible flourishes, on the other hand, get it wrong and all that effort in your interior arrangement can be […]
Interior Design – Lighting Design Part One
Lamps and luminaires. In any interior scheme lighting design is probably the most difficult concept to understand so before we jump into the “How To” part let’s have a quick overview of some of the different type of lights that are available. Incandescent lamps: Tungsten GLS (general lighting service). This is the standard bulb in most table […]
Interior design – Decorative paint finishes
The use of colour and decorative paint finishes have been used in many ways over the centuries, in fact, when we decorate our homes we are continuing a tradition which dates back some thirty thousand years, when our earliest ancestors adorned their caves with paintings. Period houses were decorated with washes and simple paints made […]
Interior architecture: Storage solutions
When embarking on interior architecture and design storage solutions it is well worth the time to sit down and nut out what your actual needs are. Here are a few things for your consideration What are your particular requirements? It is worth taking the time to write oneself a detailed brief. Bubble diagrams are a […]
Replica Book Panels
I recently watched Baz luhrmann’s film adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’, the lavish award winning production of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic which explores the subjects of idealism, self-indulgence, the struggle to change, excess and social disorder, generating a portrait of the’ The Roaring Twenties and ‘The Age of Jazz’ and that has been defined as […]
Unfitted Kitchens: a Blueprint for Excellence
From the early hunter-gatherer cultures and the ensuing development of farming, the preparation, cooking and eating of food have provided punctuation for the day; coming together to eat is an expression of man’s natural gregariousness and the obvious pleasure in eating is intensified by making oneself comfortable in the process. Coupled with the involvement of […]
