Bespoke patchwork encaustic tiles from Alhambra Home & Garden It’s official, I am obsessed with tiles! Wall tiles and floor tiles have been on my mind for months now. Admittedly, I’ve always been pretty obsessed but since thinking about renovating my own kitchen and bathroom the situation has become far more serious. I am so
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Marble 2.0 Wallpaper by Lilesadi for Photowall
The trend for marble in interiors is one of my favourites right now and I love the fact that all these traditional, timeless, utilitarian materials are coming back into fashion in a big way. I’ve been frantically pinning the array of great marble products for the home and I will share them with you in
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Colour
Trend : Copper Blush
I first featured the Dulux Colour of the Year for 2015 back in November last year (2014). Copper Blush is the perfect hue for 2015 as the trend for copper has just skyrocketed this year. Not that I’m complaining because I adore copper as it’s such a warm and versatile material. I have just received
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Pinspiration : Concrete Trend in Interiors
I first noticed the concrete trend in interiors way back in November 2011 when I wrote about it over on Freshome. Since that time, concrete has increasingly been used by designers as a material for creating furniture, interior accessories and lighting for our homes. I wasn’t too sure how I felt about such an industrial
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Colour
Trend : Dulux Colour of the Year 2015 – Copper Blush
You may remember my earlier post that featured a short video from AkzoNobel’s ColourFutures 2015 all about the colour trends we can expect to see in interiors in 2015. Well, you may or may not know that Dulux is actually the UK consumer paint brand from AkzoNobel and they recently announced their Colour of the Year for
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Interior Accessories
Trend : The John Lewis Winter Luxe Edit
In my last post I mentioned that there would be some exciting new content coming up on The Design Sheppard thanks to the involvement of my new blogging partner Ruth Adams. This is the first post that Ruth and I have worked on together and I think you’ll agree that it looks absolutely amazing. One
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Trend : ColourFutures 2015 Identifies Copper
It’s that time of year again when AkzoNobel presents ColourFutures 2015. Around about this time every year I really look forward to finding out what colour will be announced as Colour of the Year. In this short video clip, AkzoNobel explains how this year’s overriding trend invites you to find the magic in the everyday by exploring under-utilisized
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Interior Accessories
Experiments in Styling with Tesco
As you all know, nobody loves well designed, unique products for the home more than me. Only problem is that they don’t come cheap, and nor should they when you consider all the hard work, creativity and years of experience that go into making them. But when money is tight, like it is for me
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Flooring
2014 Tiling Trends from Topps Tiles
Since we moved into our new home, all I can think about is re-doing our kitchen and bathroom. These are two of the most important rooms in a house in my opinion. But they are also two of the most expensive to do up and unfortunately we can’t afford any redecorating at the moment. To
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Marks & Spencer SS14 Home Collection
I can’t believe how fast the new year is whizzing past. January is nearly over already! There is just so much to blog about but I have so little time these days as looking after Matylda is more than a full time job, not that I’m complaining and she is an absolute joy. But there
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Interior Accessories
Sainsbury’s SS14 Home & Lifestyle Collection
One thing I love about the new year is looking at all the new trends that we can expect to see on the market and the new home collections that will allow us to give our homes a fresh new look next season. One collection that caught my eye is this lovely lifestyle collection created by
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John Lewis Autumn/Winter 2013 Interior Trends
As you all know, I do love a good trend post, so when I received a press release from John Lewis outlining their Autumn/Winter 2013 interior trends, I couldn’t wait to share them with you. There are actually six different trends they identified but I only want show you my three favourites here today as
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Interior Accessories
Geometric Ironing Board Covers by Brabantia
Ironing is perhaps one of the least glamorous household tasks in my eyes. Along with hoovering it is probably one of the domestic tasks that I least enjoy doing and because of that I generally tend to save up my ironing until there is a whole heap of it waiting for me. There really isn’t
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Interiors Trend : Definitely Delft
Well it’s that time of year again when I am called upon to perform my seasonal duties as a trend hunter. This time last year I was contacted by Vouchercodes.co.uk and asked to be one of their High Street Hunters. This basically means that each season I identify a trend that I believe will be big in interiors
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Colour Psychology: Using Indigo in Interiors
Welcome to the latest installment of Karen’s Quarterly Colour Psychology Questions in which I quiz applied colour psychology expert Karen Haller to get her take on the use of various colours in our interior design schemes. In this post we are taking a closer look at Dulux’s colour of the Year for 2013 which was the
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Creating Gorgeous Grey Interiors
The most popular blog post of all time to have featured here on The Design Sheppard is an interview I did with colour expert and consultant Karen Haller on the use of the colour grey in interiors. The article is part of our regular colour psychology series and it is consistently the most read post
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Odyssey: AW13 Home Trend from John Lewis
This bank holiday weekend I stumbled upon the new AW13 Home Trend from John Lewis and I have to say I’m really rather taken with it. Odyssey takes its cue from complex structures that can be found in nature and I really love all the geometric influences that can be seen in this collection. I’m also a big fan
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Geometric Wallpaper from Ferm Living
Last week, I wrote a guest post over on Live The Life You Dream About, the brilliant blog written by Interior designer Sarah Sarna. The post was about the trend for geometrics in interiors, which has been around for a while now but is still one of my favourite trends. I love the simplicity and
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Interiors Trend: Secret Garden
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I Last November, I was contacted by Vouchercodes.co.uk and asked to be one of their High Street Hunters. Has a nice ring to it doesn’t it? Basically, that means that each season I choose an interiors trend that I think
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Interior Accessories
Deer oh Deer! Great Stag Accessories from DesResDesign
This winter I have been loving the huge range of home accessories that feature woodland animals. They seem to be popping up everywhere and I particularly like this range of stag head accessories from DesResDesign. Available in teal and plum, the cushions and wallpaper feature hand-drawn stag head designs which are perfect for the woodland animal trend
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Interiors Trend: Woodland Animals
|A | B |C| D| E| F| G| H| I| J| One of the things that I love about interiors is watching the different trends develop right from the moment they first appear through to the time when they go mainstream and can be seen all over the place. I remember when owls first
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Furniture
Interview: Laura Lane of Uniche Interior Furnishings
At the moment I am absolutely, completely and utterly smitten with the vintage, industrial trend that we are seeing in interiors right now. There is something very reassuring and timeless about this aesthetic, perhaps it’s because many of the products look and feel like they have already been around for a long time, even if
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Technology
Imagining the Home of the Future
I was recently contacted by the TV network NBCUniversal who was just about to launch its latest series on the SyFy channel. Now a little known fact about me is that I am a bit of a secret sci-fi geek and growing up I loved watching sci-fi programmes with my dad and I was always
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Colour
Colour Psychology: Using Orange in Interiors
Now firstly I must apologize that it has been far too long since my last colour psychology post. When I originally launched this series of posts I intended to run them quarterly hence the series being called Karen’s Quarterly Colour Psychology Questions. However, as many of you know, I got married in April so my attention was somewhat