Open plan living spaces benefit from being both practical and comfortable and modern couples, individuals and families are quite keen to put them into effect where possible. Having large spaces devoted to both functionality and comfort is great but it can present a bit of an interior design issue. You have to satisfy two different [...]

Rugs are being used in the garden more commonly these days. Homemakers often concentrate on creating lovely little seating areas in their gardens using bistro sets, outdoor lounge sets and other items of furniture. Outdoor rugs represent the icing on the cake in this sort of arrangement. So how do you maintain your outdoor rugs [...]

A lot of people choose to have a shoes-off policy at home. All footwear is taken off at the front or back door so that shoes don’t make it into the lounge, dining room and the rooms upstairs. If you have rugs at home then this is definitely a good strategy to put in place. [...]

It’s important to try and gather inspiration for your interior design wherever you can, especially when it comes to the really positive role rugs can play at home. So where can you start looking in order to find the best rugs for your particular home environment? Well, you can start by putting some feelers out [...]

Rugs have a big part to play in the décor of bed and breakfasts and small hotels. After all, these places are meant to be really comfortable places to stay. Guests are likely to take an instant liking or disliking to the place they are staying according to the first impressions offered by the exterior [...]

Conservatories really come into their own in summer because they are the perfect place to head in the morning and in the early evenings. They can reasonably be used as extra dining rooms that see loads of natural light in the summer. However, they also make the perfect sitting rooms in summer when a cosy [...]

Warm weather like that which we’ve experienced over the past few weeks in the UK often means that traffic in and out of the house increases, simply because you use your garden that little bit more. When you pass from the garden to the house in shoes or bare feet, you necessarily bring dirt with [...]

A Wendy house is a fantastic addition to the garden in summertime because it gives your kids a little base when they are spending lots of time playing outdoors. However, it’s important that you make your kids’ Wendy house as comfortable and as safe as possible, otherwise it won’t be used as much as it [...]

When people think of skins and pelts in connection with home decorating they often picture the neutral tones of the animals that lend those skins and pelts to the industry. However, that is to ignore a whole host of possibilities. The fact is that skins and pelts come in a vast array of different colours [...]

The UK is in the grip of a heat wave and for a lot of people that means a welcome chance to enjoy the garden! It’s lovely to be able to spend time in the garden and actually make the most of the hard work you’ve done in terms of planting and landscaping it to [...]