The Value of Design from Design Council on Vimeo. The Design Council has been working with the Arts & Humanities Research Council to measure the value that design thinking brings to small businesses. What it found is that design thinking does so much more than just make products look nicer or work better, it improves
Interviews
Decorating Tips from Farrow and Ball
Something super exciting has happened for my husband and I over the past few weeks. We’ve gone from thinking we would never get onto the property ladder to being home owners. I can’t begin to tell you how happy we are to finally be living in our own home! One thing that I am particularly
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Interior Accessories
Experiments in Styling with Next
One of the things that I really feel holds me back as a blogger is my complete and utter lack of confidence when it comes to styling and photography. Whilst many of my favourite bloggers take all their own photographs and often style their own shoots, this is not really something I have been comfortable
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Trend
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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Interviews
Interview: Ashley Sutcliffe of Live Like The Boy
I’ve been following Ashley Sutcliffe on Twitter for a good long while now and when he contacted me to ask if I’d like to feature him on The Design Sheppard I jumped at the opportunity. Ashley has over 10 years of experience working in retail and customer service and 10 years of design training to Masters
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Flooring
Vibrant Contemporary Rugs from Sonya Winner
I honestly have no idea why it has taken me so long to feature Sonya Winner‘s vibrant contemporary rugs on the blog. I first discovered them a few years back and I have been a huge fan ever since. Sonya’s highly original rugs are completely unique and I am yet to spot anything remotely similar.
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News
Design Sheppard in HIBS100 ranking of top 100 interior design blogs
The Design Sheppard is featured in the HIBS100 ranking of top 100 interior design blogs. Currently at number 17!
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Interior Accessories
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
Colour Psychology: Using Indigo in Interiors
An interview with applied colour psychology expert Karen Haller on the use of Indigo in interior design.