New kitchen / bar Artisan opened in Manchester this week and we popped in last night for a few cheeky cocktails & nibbles with friends and to check out the much talked about interior design scheme. I loved it. All the things we've been raving about this year brought together in a glamorous & industrial... Continue Reading →
How to make a gorgeous indoor garden planter from some old pine drawers
Now that the fab Crafty Magazine has featured our indoor planter, I can post some images for those of you who fancy a little DIY project this summer. Not everyone has a huge garden to run planting riot in so this is definitely a project for bringing the outdoors in 🙂 I found an old set... Continue Reading →
How to update a ‘Pod” glass bathroom using a luxury steam shower
Pod bathrooms were quite the thing to do in city centre apartment blocks a few years back and I can understand their appeal - easy to simply drop in and install for the developer & builder, controllable design, fewer on-site hiccups. However, everything which appears perfect always seems to have a price - in the... Continue Reading →
How to get a DIY gilding effect on black moulded furniture
Home office furniture can be clinical and a little bit boring can't it, so a great option is go down the bespoke, design it yourself route. For a recent interior design project, I needed to create something with a gentleman's club feel, very masculine yet still warm, inviting and a touch glamorous. We designed and... Continue Reading →
Moregeous Blog Diary: Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 Furniture, lighting and pattern
There were quite literally hundreds of stands, products and designers at Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 so it wasn't at all easy to choose favourites.... but we managed it! Here are the ones which stood out for me as exciting, innovative and yes, you know the script, Moregeous 🙂 All images taken at Clerkenwell, not stock... Continue Reading →
Moregeous Blog Diary: Interiors London & May Design Series 2013
Endlessly surfing the web and gazing at flat screened images has got nothing on seeing things up close and personal, with trade shows being a great way of seeing lots of products and companies under one roof. This week's May Design Series at Excel was an amalgamation of different events - KBB (kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms), Arc... Continue Reading →
Garden Inspiration for Summer 2013 at the Heatons Open garden day
The combination of being able to nosey round Other People's Houses, take in some inspiration from real garden spaces, get advice from enthusiastic home gardeners and eat cake at virtually every stop was fairly hard to resist so Mr M found himself dragged along to the Heaton's Open Garden day yesterday, though I think he... Continue Reading →
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