When you’re absolutely football mad it’s only natural that you want your décor to reflect the love you have for your favourite team. The trouble is you don’t want your living room to end up looking like a child’s bedroom. It’s important that you don’t go overboard. Fortunately, you can use colour to show your [...]

Now is definitely the time for winter rugs! Up and down the country people are really starting to feel the cold and those who have stuck it out until now are starting to waver in terms of putting the central heating on. Of course, there’s no shame in getting the heating on when you’re very [...]

Continuing our look at the most popular patterns on the rug market. Arabesque The most traditional rugs out there are probably those whose patterns have Middle Eastern origins. Traditional kilims and carpets are recognisable because of the wonderful arabesque motifs woven into them – stunning patterns that have been in used since the very first [...]

Traditional rugs often feature time-honoured patterns that you’ll be able to recognise thanks to their popular use over the years. When shopping around for great traditional rugs to help you get a lovely vintage or traditional look at home, it’s best to get familiar with some of the following patterns: Tartan Tartan patterning is something [...]

Delicacy is something that people look for in rugs that are meant purely for their aesthetic impact, but the most delicate rugs out there aren’t much good when you need rugs to be hardy. This is the case in rooms that are often busy with people or in spaces where design plays second fiddle to [...]

Online shopping has obviously changed a great deal about the way we live because it’s made everything so incredibly convenient. It’s certainly had a massive impact on the way people decorate their homes, because they are actually in a position to make more informed decisions about interior design and decorative features in each room. Take [...]

Laminate flooring is a great way of kitting out your home so that it is hygienic, modern and stylish. This type of flooring is incredibly easy to clean and it also helps make the home fit in with more contemporary approaches to style. Unfortunately, it’s not all that difficult to damage laminate flooring. Laminate flooring [...]

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 [...]