Posted in General on Aug 8th, 2010
Every house has walls – but what do you put on them? Do you put bookcases against them? Or sideboards? Or big “light reflecting” mirrors to “enhance the proportions of the room? Or family portraits? Or scenic views?
There’s no hard or fast rule to this, and I like a bit of everything, something different in [...]
Posted in Bedroom, General, Kitchen, Lounge on Jun 11th, 2010
One of the most exciting things about getting your new place is furnishing for the first time. You may want your dream bed, your dream sofa, a fantastic table and chairs dining set and much more. However if you are on a budget you may want to identify the items you need to be your [...]
Posted in General on Jan 27th, 2010
Im sure we have all done it, sat there dreaming about how we would spend the outcome of a huge Lottery win.
You draw up your list of cars, houses, holidays etc and then it comes to filling the house with a load of trendy furniture. It got me thinking of how the ‘other’ half live [...]
Posted in General on Jan 22nd, 2010
I recently found myself lay in bed thinking how boring my room had got and that really i should do something about it. It seems to happen on a recurring basis and find myself re-arranging furniture just for the sake of it.
So if you are looking at doing your bedroom, what do you look at [...]
Posted in General on Jan 17th, 2010
I hear on the grapevine that retro furniture is the new fad amongst the trendy generation around the country. But as times change so fast, I have to ask what exactly constitutes being retro furniture nowadays. If you tap ‘retro furniture’ into Google you come up with all manner of strange shaped chairs.
They vary from [...]
Posted in General on Jan 13th, 2010
The new year has started and many of us will have sat down written our new year’s resolutions. One of the most popular will be re-arranging your house and starting a new year with a fresh look in the home. So if you are going to be undertaking this then I think the [...]
Posted in General on Jan 7th, 2010
So being someone who suffers from a bad back, and having recently started a new job where i had a workstation risk assessment, it got me thinking about what would be the best form of seating.
I have seen lots of articles relating to posture, be it the angle that your feet are at to help [...]
Posted in General on Dec 22nd, 2009
The BBC has announced that it would like design students from around the North of England to send in designs for furniture and fabric for it’s new home in Salford Quays. The BBC plan to move to Media City in Salford Quays in the Spring of 2011 and the competition will be open until 30 [...]
Posted in General on Dec 21st, 2009
Back in November, Minneapolis based furniture company Blu Dot embarked upon a social experiment where they placed 25 of their “Real Good” metal chairs around New York city. These chairs were fitted with GPS and were watched closely by a mixture of remote cameras and cameramen. The purpose of the experiment was to see who [...]
Posted in General on Dec 19th, 2009
Ever fancied owning crystal studded sofas, tables, mirror frames and lamps? This trend which was once a favourite of European royalty is coming back in a big way via India. Previously, indulgent royals would venture to Paris and Milan to purchase this luxury furniture but now Indian designers have started using it in their designs [...]