Interiors and Lifestyle Blog:
For the eclectic and ever so slightly eccentric…How to do Glam without being Garish
Most of us like a bit of glam, me in particular, but it’s too easy to go over the top and then it turns into garish and possibly bling! How do you avoid this and still have a home that feels glamorous and sexy? Constraint is the word! Difficult to do I know but it’s all in the subtle touches. The photos below illustrate my point very nicely as it’s a beautiful home that has that lived in feel but at the same time there is that element of glam that lifts it above the ordinary.
New Magazine: ‘Modern Gardens’
‘Modern Gardens’ is a new gardening magazine to hit the stands and I love it so I thought I would shout about it! Being an obsessive gardener I buy most of the gardening magazines on a regular basis and inspirational and informative though they may be, they don’t really relate to the small suburban plot most of us have. Whereas, ‘Modern Gardens’ is full of inspirational design and style ideas for creating an interesting outdoor room without being overly horticultural.
6 Golden Rules for Decorating with House Plants
House plants are a lovely way to bring the outdoors in, in summer and winter, and a hot trend whatever your style of interiors. House plants bring an organic quality to your home and a feeling of tranquility and, as an added bonus, they are good for cleansing the air. My six golden rules for decorating with house plants are:
1. The first golden rule has to be to make sure the plant suits the situation – ferns will frazzle on a sunny window sill whereas sempervivums will relish the sun. So ‘right plant right place’ is essential for a successful display. I have caused, through neglect, the demise of many a house plant in my time, though not spider plants and ivy as they appear to be indestructible and always come back from the brink however sad they look.
SS16 Interiors Trend – Let’s Get Tropical!
Tropical is by no means a new trend in interiors, but it’s certainly picking up pace this season and is definitely one of the key looks for SS16. Think lush tropical greenery and palm trees with colonial rattan and then add splashes of colour with vibrant cockatoos and mix it with gold pineapples and insects for a real dazzle of sunshine.
As you may know, our decorating style isn’t for the faint hearted, so if we were to do this look it’d be full on and OTT. It’s the perfect trend for colour loving maximalists to go wild… But there’s also plenty of ways to bring in the look without feeling like your home’s been overtaken by rainforest, here’s our key tips.
Urban Jungle Bloggers- Jungle Animals
Urban Jungle Bloggers is a monthly series hosted by Igor and Judith to encourage us all to bring a little more green into our lives. Each month they, plus many bloggers worldwide, share ideas to create an urban jungle through styling ideas, DIYs and green tips & tricks and this month the theme is ‘wild animals and the cohabitation between jungle plants and jungle animals.’ So this is the perfect opportunity for my pair of roaring lions to take centre stage and wow the audience!
Sexy Gold Kitchen Utensils
I feel like all I really need to say is three words – GOLD KITCHEN UTENSILS. That pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?!
“We’re loving MiaFleur’s seriously sexy new gold kitchen utensils” Livingetc
Suffice to say, as soon as we saw this new range of gold kitchenware, we just knew you’d love them as much as us. Often practicality has to come at the price of beauty, but not anymore! You know it’s our mission to banish ugly, functional objects from the home… a mission you guys have told us you wholeheartedly agree with and these kitchen utensils hit the nail on the functional head.
