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If you don’t have enough lighting, there is NO paint colour that will save you! – don’t expect your paint to be a miracle worker... Before you spend money on paint, spend SMART money on lighting first. I'm sure I wont get any argument from you when I say that colour palette is one of the most important design decisions you’ll need to make when decorating a home. From paint colour to fabrics and finishes, colour can have a large effect on how any home looks and feels. For a lo

Interior Designers are in fact creative types by nature and love to imagine, dream, explore and follow our intuition. That being said, there are some principles that guide us to ensure a great result for our clients. I hate to break it to you, but interior designers don’t really follow a secret decorating rule book. The principles of design are the closest thing we have to a rule book but typically once a designer learns these principles, he or she is

Decorative Lights can add so much interest and appeal to both domestic and commercial properties alike. There are so many different ways to approach this part of a design project....ahhh, the choices are endless... Spend Money where it matters! It's interesting for me to see how people interpret their lighting plans. Lighting especially pendant lights are a great opportunity to express yourself. What a shame to lose that opportunity through fear! I have seen these lost oppo

Adequate sleep is vital to health and happiness, but many of us just don't get enough sleep and relaxation. A well designed room can hel

You'll have a multitude of important choices to make throughout the course of a design project. Knowing how each single choice is affecting the others is often the trickiest part! Pattern mixing, visual balance, continuity throughout the spaces and the nuts and bolts of buying furniture and furniture placement can be a challenge to say the least! If you get it wrong, you may not realize until it's too late! Fixing it may cost a bomb not to mention the stress. You shouldn't re

1. Don't Forget About Lighting Even the most beautiful of rooms can be thwarted by bad lighting. The most welcoming spaces are filled with soft layers of flattering lighting at various heights (a chandelier, floor lamp, desktop lamp, etc.), not just one harsh light source. If the space has little natural light, use mirrors to brighten it up by reflecting what natural light there is around the room. 2. Don't Hang Pictures at the Wrong Height You've found the perfect picture,