The Interior Design Handbook by Frida Ramstedt is full of practical and useful advice, to help you create a home that not only looks good but that feels good too.
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Book Review : Small Space Style
Small Space Style, the new book from London-based interiors stylist Sara Emslie is the practical guide to bringing the finer points of style to even the smallest of spaces.
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The Transformational Power of Colour with Karen Haller
I met Applied Colour Psychology Expert Karen Haller in Bristol to discuss her new book, the Little Book of Colour and how we can use colour to transform our lives.
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Book Review : Natural Living Style
Natural Living Style by Selina Lake draws on natural, organic and eco-friendly sustainable sourcing to provide a poignant guide to creating a natural home.
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Book Review : Wabi Sabi Home
Wabi Sabi Home by Mark and Sally Bailey is based on the ancient Japanese philosophy that treasures the beauty of imperfection.
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Book Review : Bohemian Style at Home
This book is a practical room by room guide showing how to bring Bohemian style into your home.
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Book Review : Japanese Style At Home
Japanese Style at Home serves as a modern how-to guide to help translate Japanese style into the home.
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Book Review : Love Colour
Love Colour by Anna Starmer offers the ultimate guidance in decorative colour to help you make the right choices when starting your home design journey.
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Book Review : My Bedroom is an Office
Joanna Thornhill’s latest book guides you through an extensive list of design dilemmas offering advice and tips to solve them.
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Book Review : Home Life Around The World
A couple of months ago I was contacted by Anita Martinez Beijer, a Swedish Author, Photographer and Interior Designer, who wanted to tell me about her new book that was published earlier this year. The book is called Home Life Around the World (affiliate link) and Anita basically spent two years travelling the world in order to find
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How to Design Your Own Happiness
Happy by Design (affiliate link) is a relatively new book written by Victoria Harrison, who you may know as the Editor of Houzz. She is also a columnist for the Metro and i newspaper and has over 14 years experience writing for consumer magazines like Ideal Home, House Beautiful, The English Home and Real Homes. I received this book to review
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Gift Guide : Interior Design Books
*This post contains affiliate links which are marked with an asterisk* If you’re anything like me, books are one of the best presents you can receive at Christmas. I love having a selection of interior design books at my disposal and I’m starting to build up quite a collection. I’m looking forward to creating a
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Book Review : Urban Jungle | Living & Styling with Plants
I hope you all had an amazing Christmas and were able to take time off to enjoy all the festivities with your loved ones. We certainly did. Christmas has become so much more fun and enjoyable since we’ve had the kids, they really do bring a sense of magic and excitement to this special time of
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Book Review : 1000 Ideas for Colour Schemes
The latest book to arrive at Design Sheppard HQ for review is a great little read called 1000 ideas for colour schemes by Jennifer Ott, an interior designer and architectural colour specialist based in San Francisco. Now I say it’s a great little read, but to be honest there isn’t really much reading to be done. It’s
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Book Review : Design Bloggers at Home by Ellie Tennant
This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for a good long while now and I have finally gotten around to reading it. I could have reviewed it before but I don’t like to write book reviews until I have had the time to actually read the book from cover to cover. Needless to say,
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World Book Day 2015
Tomorrow, the 5th March 2015 is World Book Day so I thought it only fitting to do a quick post on books. I love books with a passion and it’s been my dream for as long as I can remember to have a home library. I not long ago started doing book reviews here on the blog
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Book Review : The Origami Home by Mark Bolitho
Today I wanted to share this really lovely book with you guys as I know you will appreciate it, particularly those of you who are into your arts and crafts. The Origami Home is a really unique, modern approach to the ancient Japanese art of paper folding combined with high-end interior design. The book features
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Book Review : Holiday at Home by Jason Grant
It’s starting to feel really wintry outside now, don’t you think? Those dark evenings are drawing in earlier and earlier every night and it’s now dark before I even leave the office at night. Don’t get me wrong, I actually quite enjoy winter and the cosy dark evenings but it is only November and I
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Giveaway : Colour Me Good Chairs Colouring Book
A few weeks ago I read a really interesting article in the Independent about how French women are using colouring in books to relieve stress and anxiety. I found this a really interesting article and I was actually quite excited by the prospect. I used to love colouring in as a kid. I was never
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Book Review : Home for Now by Joanna Thornhill
I hope you all had a great Easter and didn’t indulge in too much chocolate! Over the weekend I spent some valuable time with family. My parents were dying to get their hands on Matylda, which gave me a little free time to kick back and relax with a book that has been on my reading
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Book Review: Decorate With Flowers
I love flowers and plants but I have to admit that I do not have green fingers at all. In fact, most plants in my care sadly tend to perish. The only species that I have any luck caring for are succulents, cacti, bamboo, and Dracena plants that practically need no care at all and
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Book Review : A Life Less Ordinary
Set somewhere in the bustling beauty of Brighton’s South Coast, the founders of i gigi have crafted their skills into the pages of the exquisite book A Life Less Ordinary, a catalogue of their inspirational ideas and trends, published by Cico Books. A captivating journey through their rural lives, Zoe Ellison and Alex Legendre have
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Book Review: A Place Called Home by Jason Grant
If you truly believe that a house is not a home, then acclaimed stylist and interiors blogger Mr Jason Grant is here to give you a reason to change your mind. From his popular lifestyle blog to the pages of Vogue Living and Elle Decoration, Jason’s decade of experience has lead to the publishing of
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Book Review: Hand-Knit Your Home by Melanie Porter
Central Saint Martins College graduate and international knitting design goddess Melanie Porter is well established in her field, creating fabulous bespoke pieces designed to enrich your home in a gloriously contemporary fashion. But if you’re looking for a way to interpret Melanie’s products with your own personal spin, then look no further.