When it comes to making a house feel like a home there's more than meets the eye.
Whether you’re renovating an entire house, sprucing up the kitchen or adding a splash of colour to freshen up a living room – these helpful tips are not to be missed.
Pulling a room together and transforming the features to make it functional and stylish yet homely is not often an easy task.
Make it your own - its your home anyway
Your home is where you spend most of your time, so the space needs to reflect you.
Collate samples, images, samples of the fabrics, wallpapers, furniture and flooring that you might want to use. This way you can see how they would all sit together within the room
Choose colours and fabrics
Start with one tone in on the colours you want to use – for the painted walls or wallpaper, furniture, blinds and curtains.
The next colour could be a highlight for cushions, lampshades, bed quilts and accessories such as a tablecloth or even a painting.'
Be bold with deco ideas
The key to interior design in modern times is to embrace the paint idea that works for you.
There are no rules of painting doors frames, skirting boards and ceilings in a brilliant white anymore – in fact some top interior designers argue against it!
Painting the skirting the same same colour as the walls or floorw can help to make the room feel bigger.
Fill a room with a signature item
Take note from hotel-style and give your home a signature design, it's incredible how much this can transform your home.
Luxury hotels with select a key pattern to have throughout, which then becomes associated with that place.
