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  • Colour

    Unlocking the Secrets of Interior Design Psychology

    February 9, 2025February 9, 2025

    Discover how interior design psychology shapes your space. Learn how colour, texture, and home windows influence mood, light, and well-being.

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  • Colour

    How to Embrace Colourful Materials in Interior Design

    February 5, 2025

    Discover how to embrace colourful materials in interior design with terrazzo, tinted concrete, and vibrant tiles for a bold and stylish home.

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  • Trend

    Living Room Decoration Trends That Will Dominate in 2025

    November 18, 2024November 18, 2024

    As we approach a new year, it’s time to take a look at some of the living room decoration trends we can expect to see in 2025 and beyond.

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  • A living room in earthy colour palette with large windows to promote home health

    Biophilic Design

    How to Improve Your Home Health in 11 Simple Steps

    September 23, 2024October 3, 2024

    A home should help improve our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. What actions can we take to improve our home health?

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  • Furniture

    How to Take Your Living Room to the Next Level

    July 24, 2024July 24, 2024

    These living room decor ideas will help you to take your living room to the next level and make it your favourite room in the home.

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  • A dining table laid up in a minimalist japandi dining room

    Furniture

    5 Simple Tips For Decorating A Dining Room

    June 17, 2024June 17, 2024

    Dining rooms are popular again, but what do we need to consider when decorating a dining room to make sure they are used fully and enjoyed

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  • Woman sat on a leather sofa in a green room holding a pink cushion

    Interior Accessories

    How to Create a Home You Love Living In

    June 14, 2024June 18, 2024

    How can we create a home we love living in and increase our happiness at wellbeing at home? Let’s look at some simple tasks we can do today.

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  • Interior Accessories

    How to Decorate Like an Interior Designer

    May 6, 2024May 6, 2024

    Here are 12 tips and tricks to help you decorate like an interior designer so your home looks like those you see in magazines and on Pinterest.

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  • Furniture

    9 Easy Ways to Make a Rental Property Feel Like Home

    January 19, 2024January 23, 2024

    Check out these simple ways to make a rental property feel like home so you can be happy & feel good where you live even if you don’t own it.

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  • Colour

    Peach Fuzz: Pantone Colour of the Year 2024

    January 19, 2024January 25, 2024

    What is the Pantone Colour of the Year 2024, why was it chosen and how can we use it effectively in our own homes?

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  • productive home office with wooden desk and green walls

    Furniture

    How to Choose an Interior Design to Make a More Productive Home Office

    October 23, 2023October 30, 2023

    If you work or study from home, you need a productive home office. Here we share some important tips to help you create a productive space.

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  • Colour

    Dulux Colour of the Year 2023: Wild Wonder

    October 13, 2022October 13, 2022

    Dulux has announced Wild Wonder as its Colour of the Year 2023. It is inspired by the warm tones of harvested crops with an upbeat glow connecting us with the cycles of life.

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  • Colour

    Dulux Colour of the Year 2022 – Bright Skies

    September 23, 2021September 23, 2021

    The Dulux Colour of the Year 2022 has been announced as Bright Skies, an airy and fresh blue tone that breathes new life into any space.

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  • Colour

    Autumnal Hues to Spice up Your Home

    October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

    Create warmth and comfort with autumnal hues in interiors this season. Think terracotta, russet, burnt orange, ochre, mustard, and blush pink.

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  • Dovetail Oxford Flooring from Harvey Maria in a kitchen in the Pantone Colour of the Year 2020 Classic Blue

    Colour

    Classic Blue : Pantone Colour of the Year 2020

    February 12, 2020March 3, 2020

    Pantone Colour of the Year 2020 is Classic Blue. Here I show you how you can use it in your own home and round up some beautiful home products in this elegant shade.

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  • Colour

    The Transformational Power of Colour with Karen Haller

    November 28, 2019February 17, 2021

    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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    Lighting

    Introducing HouseOf Lighting Collection

    May 31, 2019May 31, 2019

    The HouseOf lighting collection features a range of minimalist lighting designed to help consumers bring more colour and personality into their homes.

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  • Darlings of Chelsea - Stirling Midi Sofa - Oscar Velvet Vintage Green

    Colour

    Autumn/Winter 2018 Colour Trends

    November 5, 2018April 18, 2019

    October is turning out to be really lovely. I don’t know about where you are, but here in Devon it’s been pretty sunny and dry. It’s still really cold but I don’t mind that so much as long as it’s not wet. And can we just talk about all the beautiful colours that we’re seeing

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  • How to Design your own happiness -Reading on the bed 1

    Books

    How to Design Your Own Happiness

    October 14, 2018June 20, 2024

    Happy by Design is a book by Victoria Harrison tthat examines the ways that we can make changes to our homes in order to boost our health & well-being.

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  • Dulux Colour of the Year 2019 - Spiced Honey (9)

    Colour

    Spiced Honey : Dulux Colour of the Year 2019

    October 1, 2018October 15, 2018

    How is it October already? Was last month a blur for anyone else? September is such a hectic month, both in the design world and in the real world. I was so busy last month that my head is now spinning and I’m barely managing to keep up. The kids started pre-school and reception, and

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  • Hampshire Barn by deVOL purple kitchen

    Colour

    Trend : Colourful Kitchen Cabinetry

    July 25, 2018July 13, 2023

    Colourful kitchen cabinetry is a big trend on the home design scene at the moment with bright and bold colours becoming increasingly popular

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  • DFS House of Colour - helping the British public create more colourful homes

    Colour

    DFS House of Colour : Creating Colourful Homes

    May 31, 2018May 29, 2018

    This is an exciting post to write. Just look at these images! Aren’t they beautiful? As soon as I saw these images I knew I had to share them with you. They were styled by blogging friends Kate Watson-Smyth and Pippa Jameson along with interior designer, stylist and TV personality Sophie Robinson. These super talented

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  • Colour

    2018 Colour Trends for your Home

    January 5, 2018April 26, 2018

    I have a really weird obsession with trends. I follow them very closely and I love to write about them and drool over them in magazines and on blogs and on Pinterest. However, I don’t always buy into them and bring them into my own home. Not unless I deem them to have longevity and

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  • Little Greene Paint - Blue room with yellow coloured skirting board

    Colour

    Trend : Coloured Skirting Boards

    October 19, 2017September 27, 2021

    Gloss white skirting boards are going out of fashion as coloured skirting boards become an increasingly popular interior design trend

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    This place is beautiful.

I am so lucky to have @nkukulife right on my doorstep. I have to drive past it on my way to the office everyday and it's always so tempting to pop in. 

What I love most about it is not only the expansive feel of the space with the high vaulted ceilings but the fact that everything inside makes me feel a special kind of way. 

You all know by now that I'm obsessed with biophilic design and there is just so much that fits this concept at Nkuku. So many natural materials and so much texture. 

Come with me and take a look around the store. 

#Nkuku #BiophilicDesign #TexturedInteriors #NaturalHome #NaturalHomeDecor #Naturalmaterials #HomeFurnishing
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    [Ad] Technical design, master craftsmanship, and exquisite materials are required to create stunning oak framed buildings. 

Ever since I was a little kid, religiously watching @kevin.mccloud1 on @granddesignstv, I dreamed of one day embarking on my very own Grand Design. The idea of building my own home, exactly to my specification, felt like an ambition worth having. 

That dream home looked remarkably like the gorgeous timber-framed homes created by @carpenter_oak with their beautiful beams, floor-to-ceiling windows and honest, authentic materials. 

So when I was invited on a press trip to learn all about how Carpenter Oak works with architects, contractors and self-builders to bring their visions to life, excited doesn't even begin to cover it. 

During the trip we stayed @gitcombe, a holiday let that was designed and built by the team at Carpenter Oak, so we could fully experience such a home.

There we heard all about the employee-owned company, their impressive history and their many projects across the UK and beyond. 

We then headed to the yard in Buckfast to see the master craftsmen at work, and get some hands-on experience building our very own scale model of an oak framed building.

Do I still dream of building my own Grand Design one day? Absolutely! And especially if I had a team like Carpenter Oak bringing their passion, and expertise to the project. 

What about you? Ever considered a timber framed home? 

#CarpenterOak #timberframe #OakFramedBuilding #timberframehouse #timberframehomes #oakframedbuildings #selfbuildhomes
#selfbuilders #presstrip #Buckfast #YardTour #UniqueHomes #ArchitecturalHomes
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    Imagine spending summer hanging out here! 

That's absolutely what I plan to do as it's my local just down the road @blackpoolsandsdevon 

Yesterday was the opening event for the newly relaunched restaurant and bar which has been beautifully designed and refurbished and features lots of gorgeous goodness from @nkukulife to give it those relaxed biophilic vibes. 

I can't wait to grab a drink and perch myself under the tiki beach parasol outside. The new menu looks tantalizingly good and with those views while you dine, why would you go anywhere else! 

I'm looking forward to spending summer at the beach and soaking up all the cool coastal vibes that Blackpool Sands will be offering up over the next few months.

Credit to everyone involved in breathing new life into this stunning location. This really is what summer dreams are made of ⛱️ 🌞 🌊🏄‍♀️🍹🍦🕶️🥙🪇

#summervibing #beachcafe #BlackpoolSands #DevonisHeaven #BeachBarViews #BeachVibin #SummerBeachNights #DartmouthDevon #DevonBeach #OpeningNight #LaunchParty #BeachHolidays #UKBeachHoliday #SeaViewBar #SeaViews #SeasideLife #SeasideDecor #Nkuku
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    The most stunning flooring I have ever seen (probably!).

I kid you not, I have never been so excited about flooring and I have been writing about residential home interiors since the dawn of ages (ok since 2007).

Botanic Concrete is part of the Muse Collection from @quickstepfloors and combines the beauty of natural stone
with the benefits of laminate with a statement botanical twist. 

The concrete-look laminate flooring features delicate wildflower designs lightly sprinkled on the surface. From a distance, you don’t even notice them but when you take a closer look it appears that someone has sprinkled teeny tiny meadow flowers all over the floor. The result is a hybrid floor with a terrazzo effect that suits minimalist and eclectic interiors alike. WHAT A DREAM!

So dreamy in fact that this flooring is now installed in my own kitchen. (These photos are not my kitchen sadly!) And I'm planning to install it in my hallway too. And maybe the living room. That's how much I love it! 

There is a full interview with Anastasiia Kudashova, Chief Designer at Quick-Step over on my blog if you'd like to know more about this incredibly gorgeous flooring. 

[This is not an advert. I bought this flooring with my own money. But Quick-Step did kindly give me a press discount]

What do you think? Does this concrete wild-flower terazzo combo make your heart skip a beat too? 

Let me know in the comments. 

#Quickstep #QuickstepFlooring #Flooring #LaminateFlooring #BotanicConcrete #FlooringPorn #ConcreteFlooring #TerrazzoFlooring #TerrazzoFloor #TerrazzoFloors #LaminateFloors #BiophilicDesign #BiophilicFlooring #NatureInspiredFlooring
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    [AD] I've just been away on a press trip with @carpenter_oak and for the first time ever it was in Devon. In fact, just 17 mins away from my home. Unheard of!! 

During the press trip I stayed at the most gorgeous venue. The @gitcombe estate, just outside Dartmouth, is home to Gitcombe house, a selection of holiday cottages and Gitcombe Retreat. 

I had the pleasure of staying at Gitcombe Retreat which is a beautiful oak framed building. The frame was designed and installed by Carpenter Oak, hence us staying there. 

Gitcombe is the perfect venue for large groups who want to holiday in Devon together. It is suitable for intergenerational holidays, large family holidays, friendship group holidays or even business retreats. 

The facilities are fantastic and include an indoor and outdoor pool, two hot tubs, tennis courts, a kids play park, and a soft play area. 

The rooms are beautifully designed and decorated. And the service we received was first class. The views of the rolling Devon hills are to die for and it is so incredibly peaceful due to its rural location. 

Gitcombe is a family-run business in a beautiful location. Believe me, I know, I live here. 

This is not an advert. I'm just sharing because if you follow me, and you love well designed, beautiful spaces, you're probably going to be interested in Gitcombe too. 

#TheDesignSheppard #Gitcombe #GitcombeEstate #UniqueHomes #DevonHome #DevonHolidayHomes #DevonFamilyHoliday #VisitDevon #OakFramedBuilding #CarpenterOak #IntergenerationalHoliday #HolidayHome #EscapeToTheCountry #DiscoverDartmouth
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    On Thursday evening I attended the grand opening of @societyhouse_ in Buckfastleigh, Devon. This 9000 square foot outlet warehouse is home to a fantastic selection of distinctive homeware and furniture sourced from around the world to help transform your house into a unique home you can be proud of. 

If you're looking for something different at great prices, this place is definitely worth exploring. Very exciting that it's right on my doorstep! 

#SocietyHouse #InteriorsOutlet #UniqueHomewares #UniqueHomes #GrandOpeningParty #BuckfastLeigh #DevonHomeMagazine #DevonLife #DevonHomes
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