A home should help improve our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. What actions can we take to improve our home health?
Furniture
How to Take Your Living Room to the Next Level
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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Furniture
5 Simple Tips For Decorating A Dining Room
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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Interior Accessories
How to Create a Home You Love Living In
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
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
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
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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Furniture
How to Choose an Interior Design to Make a More Productive Home Office
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
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
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
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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Colour
Classic Blue : Pantone Colour of the Year 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
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
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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Colour
Autumn/Winter 2018 Colour Trends
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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Books
How to Design Your Own Happiness
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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Colour
Spiced Honey : Dulux Colour of the Year 2019
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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Colour
Trend : Colourful Kitchen Cabinetry
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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Colour
DFS House of Colour : Creating Colourful Homes
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
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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Colour
Trend : Coloured Skirting Boards
Gloss white skirting boards are going out of fashion as coloured skirting boards become an increasingly popular interior design trend
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Colour
Brighten up Your Blue Monday
I don’t know about you guys but it already feels like Christmas and New Year was a million months ago. As usual, once the festive dust has settled and all the decorations have been packed away for another year, we all slip back into the daily grind and winter no longer seems quite so magical
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Colour
Celebrating Colour with the Brabantia #LoveColour Campaign
I think I’ve mentioned before that I have appointed myself as a brand ambassador for Brabantia right? They haven’t asked me to be one, I just really like the company and all their products. I’m constantly impressed with the quality of their products and I’ve enjoyed learning about their recent focus on corporate social responsibility with their
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Books
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