Fabulous Accessible Interiors
If you're a wheelchair user you will be well aware of the design challenges as you go about your daily business - lack of dropped kerbs in a city, restaurants you can't access, lack of accessible toilets, shop aisles being too narrow and counters being too high. When hunting for a home there's likely to [...]
That's an odd title isn't it? How can you find accessible interiors inspiration from inaccessible places? Fact is, I think you can get interiors and accessible design from anywhere and everywhere. Just because a space isn't technically accessible, it can still give you some ideas for how you might be able to adapt it to [...]
The space under the bed is usually one of the least utilised spaces in our home and yet it's a large opportunity for storage that we don't often think about. I'm on the look out for a new storage bed in my spare room and so I wanted to share some ideas... If you're a [...]
We've all done it haven't we? We've all had a great decorating idea and after we've finished, (or even halfway through doing it) we've stood back and held our head in our hands because it doesn't look how you thought it would. Many people stick to neutrals for this reason, they don't want to make [...]
In case you were asleep during 2017, the Tropical and Botanical trend was well and truly in full flow. Much of this came from the colour of the year 'Greenery' and there was a growth in plants, trees, flowers and bold themes enter our homes. In 2018 it doesn't appear to show any signs of [...]
The last couple of years you couldn't move in the interiors world for copper, gold, rose gold and bronze accessories. Everything from stationery accessories to furniture to wallpaper - they have all embraced the warm metallics and poor old silver got shoved out of the way after taking prime place for so long. But could [...]
Velvet always evokes this feeling of luxury, it's a beautiful, textured, tactile fabric that always gives you a feeling of glamour and decadence. Velvet sofas are on the rise again (if indeed they ever went away!) and there are a brilliant choice of colours and shapes to please everyone - and they're not as expensive [...]
I'm rather enjoying some of the colours I'm seeing out and about on the High St at the moment. With autumn approaching thoughts naturally turn to warmer colours and apart from 'Halloween Orange' there's a going to be a lot of rusts, terracottas and oranges coming your way as we go through the autumn and [...]
Yes, you read that correctly - patterned wall tiles. But I don't mean chickens, peaches or twee country scenes, there's a re-emergence of patterns in the past year or two. There are wall tiles including those influenced by Moroccan design, as well as geometrics and other designs inspired by Victorian or retro mid century influences. [...]
Regular readers to my blog will know that I'm a big fan of Annie Sloan paint. I've used it on bannisters and ceiling beams, bedroom furniture, my TV Cabinet and I've even painted my lampshade (more to come on that in another post). This time I decided to take my paint outside and brighten up the [...]