An email from Global Colour popped up in my in-box last night, making me smile as just yesterday I was salivating over a new Ikea kitchen door in a metallic copper finish..... Article : Justine Fox, colour expert at Global Color Researchâ„¢, presents the colour of the month, helping you to understand how colour psychology... Continue Reading →
Design: Spring has sprung with new interior jobs this week!
Ok, it's not quite Spring, the cars were frosty and the cat still refuses to go out before the 11am sun hits the garden, but there's definitely something in the air. Three new jobs / clients in over the last week, so I am understandably delighted. Mrs P of the Liner Luxe bathroom has a... Continue Reading →
Design: Rose Cottage is on You Tube!
Ahhhh, our little cottage is famous! Granted they are the 'during' shots and not her revealed in all her completed glory but that will come soon!! Check her out here: http://youtu.be/6gMcJk59FIY?a And meanwhile, here's a sneaky peek at what she's starting to look like now...
Project Rose – painting, plus sorting the oak doors mean I get high!
Most certainly there are more exciting ways to get high on a Friday night than sniffing paint fumes and white spirit, but sadly it was the best and only thing on offer for me last night. It's now a mad rush to get the kitchen, decorating and joinery finished at Rose Cottage for Hannah to... Continue Reading →
Design – A ‘vintage’ look Gorenje fridge for Rose, fingers crossed!
It's that knackering, back-breaking but quite fabulous time of the development at Rose Cottage - everything is covered in dust, men (and I) are running round like crazy, radiators are leaking, rollers are dripping with paint, floors are drying and it's finally starting to look like a house, WHOO HOO!! The (heavy!) kitchen was lugged... Continue Reading →
Property tip – The Bath Surgeon visits Liner Luxe; steel versus acrylic
No building work ever goes without a hitch, no matter how great the builder, but sometimes things happen which really try your patience, and you just think, why me?! When we were fitting the Liner Luxe bathroom featured in Ideal Home Feb 2010, the client specified a steel bath rather than acrylic. Who'd have thought... Continue Reading →
How to get Style on a Shoestring, Interiors Birmingham 2010
Interiors Birmingham 2010 was a marginally more relaxed affair for me in 2010 as there was no filming with Channel M. Instead I ambled around at my leisure, sourcing products, interviewing for a trends dissertation and meeting new contacts. In my dreams! In fact, I raced around, trying to fit in all of the above,... Continue Reading →
