It’s not easy to bring off the vintage look successfully in the home even when you’ve got really good instincts for cool interior design. The trouble comes from finding the right balance. You want your room to look tastefully informed by classic designs – not old-fashioned. Wall art is really hard to find with the [...]

Coffee tables are brilliant features in lounge spaces. They often become the very central image in the room because people sit around them, put their feet up on them, store coffee table books and other things in them and generally use them as the fulcrum of their interior design. But there’s a hidden dark side [...]

Living in student accommodation over the winter isn’t always the most comfortable experience. Students are obviously fairly strapped for cash and so they can’t really throw all that money in the direction of their heating bills. As such, it’s pretty common for students to use their central heating quite sparingly and wrap up instead. This [...]

Rugs are fantastic in very small living rooms because they help to ramp up the cosiness of the space. This is obviously something that appeals much more greatly to people during the winter because home is all about refuge from discomfort in the form of bad weather. The main problem for small lounges and living [...]

Highland fashion is definitely on trend at the moment. The autumn and winter months always see a bit of a revival of the Highland look, but the fact that so many people are into vintage style and heritage fashion at the moment means that the Highland tradition holds even greater appeal for people. Fashion on [...]

Cats are lovely animals to have around the house because they provide a bit of companionship and entertainment, but as a cat owner you have to be prepared for the fact that pets inevitably have an impact on hygiene at home. The main issue with cats is that they shed an awful lot of fur [...]

It’s important to have good acoustics in a room devoted to music practise. This goes for beginners, amateurs and professionals who like to be able to play and work at home. The thing about good acoustics is that you don’t want to sacrifice style in order to achieve them. Oddly enough, rugs really come into [...]

You’re probably well aware of the fact that you’re able to choose from a huge variety of rugs: rugs that vary in terms of the materials they are made out of; rugs that vary in terms of the patterns they feature; rugs that vary in terms of their thickness and weight; rugs that vary in [...]

It’s not always easy to tell which rugs are going to perform in the winter. The winter is certainly the biggest challenge facing rugs that are actually meant to keep your home nice and warm. Of course, any additional form of insulation is a positive, but the reality is that you want rugs that don’t [...]

Rugs in student accommodation have a real job to stay clean. The fact is simply that people are always coming and going in student housing and it is very hard to uphold a shoes-off policy, especially if you are having people over, hosting parties and all the rest that goes with the student lifestyle. How [...]