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Garden
How to Choose the Best Driveway Surface?
A new driveway is great way to boost your home’s curb appeal, but what is the best driveway surface and how do you choose the right option?
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Flooring
The Best Nature-Inspired Laminate Flooring For Your Home
Botanic Concrete is a nature-inspired laminate flooring combining intricate details of meadow flowers with the industrial feel of concrete
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Garden
Outdoor Kitchen Design Ideas: WWOO Outdoor Concrete Kitchen
With a little creativity, you can create a beautiful concrete outdoor kitchen that fits your style. Get inspired by these ideas from WWOO.
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Interior Accessories
Concrete Accessories from I Like Beton
The concrete trend in interiors has been a pretty slow burner. Products made from concrete first started to appear a good few years ago but it wasn’t until recently that the trend really caught on with companies starting to produce all kinds of concrete accessories for the home. I’ve been pinning some of my favourite
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Trend
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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Trend
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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Events
Giveaway : Win £500 worth of Wallpaper from Mr Perswall
Today my lovlies I have a fantastic giveaway for you as I have teamed up with the Swedish wallpaper manufacturer Mr Perswall who has kindly offered to give one lucky Design Sheppard reader £500 worth of wallpaper. How fantastic! And what a wonderful way to start 2015 that would be. Although it would be a very hard
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News
Take a Peek Inside Ruth’s Home
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Direct Blinds who asked me to take part in their new blog feature ‘Inside my Home’ where their readers are able to take a peek inside the homes of various interiors experts. Well anyone with tiny kids will know that it is almost impossible to keep your
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Wallcoverings
Concrete Wallpaper by Piet Boon for NLXL
Another Wednesday, another beautiful collection of wallpapers on the blog. This week I am featuring the seven delectable designs that make up the Concrete Wallpaper Collection by Dutch designer Piet Boon for NLXL. The award-winning Piet Boon design practice creates bespoke contemporary architecture, interiors and products for the global luxury market and is famous for it’s design
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Bathroom
Concrete basin by Alhambretto
I wrote about the trend for using concrete in interiors over on Freshome back in November and in the piece I touched on the fact that concrete is being used in unexpected ways in our homes. Even products that are traditionally associated with warmth or comfort are now being made in this industrial material to
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Kitchen
Concrete Kitchen by Studio Thol
Thomas Linssen is the young designer behind Studio Thol, a Dutch design studio based in Amsterdam. Linssen set up his studio in 2007 after graduating from The Design Academy Eindhoven and now creates interesting works inspired by the evolution of the natural world. One of his most unusual designs is a kitchen island made from
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Interior Accessories
Fossilize by Doreen Westphal
Doreen Westphal is a designer of East-German origin whose work has a distinct focus on sustainability and the repurposing of materials to create unusual and playful objects. With the Fossilize collection Westphal invites us to think about the changes we make to the world we live in and which of those changes we should keep