A lifestyle blog with an eye for design
Colour is back in a big way and it’s all good! So I totally get that neutral colours are safe and easy to blend in, but safe isn’t always a good thing. Safe sometimes is just, well, too safe and a little bland. So it is with delight and joy that I am welcoming all…
Family and friends get together are one of life’s small pleasures. Whether they are new acquaintances or parents, the way you will put a room together will influence your guests behaviours and how comfortable they feel in your home. One of the key indicator of the comfort level of your guests is for sure the…
You’ll agree with me that window dressing is important, if for no other valid reason than your neighbors don’t need to see you running around in your underwear. Now that we’ve got this covered, let’s do a little visualisation. It’s the first night in your new home, you’ve temporarily tacked sheets or old newspapers to the…
Let today be all about inspiration with this Victorian style home in north London. No lesson, no good moral on how the perfect natural light changes a room or how natural fibres make a bed cozier. Just plain old inspiration. I am enjoying it, I hope you do too. Cheerios! photos: Paul Massey | source:…
Que faites-vous entre le 7 et le 10 février prochain? Je vais vous le dire moi, vous allez faire un tour au Salon Expohabitation! Avec des centaines d’exposants, ce n’est pas une surprise que le salon ai choisi, comme nid, le Stade Olympique. Pour vous donner un petit aperçu de ce que vous allez pouvoir…
Someone once said you must know rules to break them. This was a conversation about interior design of course. This is not a post about how to break the law. Interior design is partly a science: full of rules of proportion, precise measurements and physic laws. I remember being discouraged when I first studied it because…
Avertissement! Cet article est à prendre avec un grain de sel, beaucoup d’humour et d’autodérision! Je suis moi-même “coupable” de certains éléments présentés plus bas. Une tendance, c’est temporaire. Il faut donc savoir lui dire au revoir au moment opportun. Et c’est parfois ardu, car nous sommes surexposés aux tendances par les magasins. Eux, ils…
Bohème et éclectique à souhait, cet appartement aux couleurs de crème glacée est gourmand et chaleureux. Assurément un look pareil demande d’avoir confiance en soi et surtout d’oser sortir de l’édict des tendances. Toutefois, quand on se lance tête baissée dans un pareil projet, sans peur des conséquences ou des quand dira t’on, et bien…
“A Victorian semi-detached house in west London. Arranged over three floors, the house has a living room that flows directly into a dining and kitchen area, plus a utility room, wine cellar and larder, on the ground floor. Upstairs there are five bedrooms and four bathrooms.” – Living etc. This home. It starts with the wide planks…
There is nothing like a polar vortex kind of Monday to inspire greener pasture is there? Well this home tour should hit just the right spot! Located in County Clare, in Ireland, this stone cottage with beautiful old bones has undergone a complete minimalist and Scandinavian inspired makeover. “The ground floor has a reception room,…
