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Furniture
How to Choose an Interior Design to Make a More Productive Home Office
If you work or study from home, you need a productive home office. Here we share some important tips to help you create a productive space.
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Colour
Trend : Colourful Kitchen Cabinetry
Colourful kitchen cabinetry is a big trend on the home design scene at the moment with bright and bold colours becoming increasingly popular
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Colour
DFS House of Colour : Creating Colourful Homes
This is an exciting post to write. Just look at these images! Aren’t they beautiful? As soon as I saw these images I knew I had to share them with you. They were styled by blogging friends Kate Watson-Smyth and Pippa Jameson along with interior designer, stylist and TV personality Sophie Robinson. These super talented
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Colour
Celebrating Colour with the Brabantia #LoveColour Campaign
I think I’ve mentioned before that I have appointed myself as a brand ambassador for Brabantia right? They haven’t asked me to be one, I just really like the company and all their products. I’m constantly impressed with the quality of their products and I’ve enjoyed learning about their recent focus on corporate social responsibility with their
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Books
Book Review : 1000 Ideas for Colour Schemes
The latest book to arrive at Design Sheppard HQ for review is a great little read called 1000 ideas for colour schemes by Jennifer Ott, an interior designer and architectural colour specialist based in San Francisco. Now I say it’s a great little read, but to be honest there isn’t really much reading to be done. It’s
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Colour
colourcourage Paint from B&Q
Morning folks, hope you’re all well? Today, I wanted to share with you all some beautiful images of a new paint range available from B&Q. colourcourage is a gorgeous new paint collection by one of my very favourite designers, Lars Contzen. I’ve been an admirer of his work since I first discovered him back in 2008
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Colour
Interview : Natasha Broady of A Splash of Colour
Have you ever been looking for a specific product, say a side table for example, but you wanted it in a specific colour like yellow? How do you go about finding it? My guess is that it requires a lot of googling and checking out your favourite online retailers, am I right? And this can
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Colour
Tips & Advice for Creating a Colourful Home
I had absolutely no idea that there was such a thing as International Colour Day until I received a press release from AkzoNobel containing tips for bringing more colour into your life. This seems to be a real big trend at the moment and one that the interiors industry is embracing with open arms. Valspar
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Colour
Colour Psychology: Using Teal in Interiors
Applied colour psychology expert Karen Haller explains how to successfully use teal, Dulux’s Colour of the Year for 2014, in our homes.
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Trend
Creating Gorgeous Grey Interiors
The most popular blog post of all time to have featured here on The Design Sheppard is an interview I did with colour expert and consultant Karen Haller on the use of the colour grey in interiors. The article is part of our regular colour psychology series and it is consistently the most read post
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Colour
Ombre Paint Effect Tutorial from Dulux
Image courtesy of Dulux I don’t know about you, but every year as Spring approaches I have this overwhelming urge not only to do a massive spring clean at home but also to change things up a bit and give my home a refresh or a new look. This year the urge is particularly strong
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Kitchen
Small Kitchen Design: The Miniki Mini Kitchen
This small kitchen design from German manufacturer Miniki is perfect for homes where space-saving designs are required.
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Furniture
Customize Your IKEA Furniture with Pretty Pegs
Ever since I first moved out of my parents when I went to uni all those many years ago (thinking about it really is quite frightening) I have had a fair amount of Ikea furniture in my house. As a student, Ikea is obviously a great choice as it’s well made, hard-wearing, and reasonably priced.
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Interviews
Interview: Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator Sian Elin
At Tent London this year, one of my favourite stands was, without doubt, that of Sian Elin, a surface pattern designer from Wales who sells her own range of textiles and wallpapers. Sian also works as a freelance illustrator and specialises in hand-drawn illustration as featured on her own range of greeting cards. Her bold,
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Wallcoverings
Environmentally Responsible Paint from Mini Moderns
Mini Moderns is one of my all time favourite interior brands and they are yet to create something that I don’t totally love. Being a huge wallpaper fan, that was obviously what attracted me to them in the first place but since those early days the range of products that Mark and Keith produce has
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Artwork
Contemporary Wall Art from Pantone
For those of you who love colour and are fans of the Pantone Colour Institute, I thought you might appreciate these contemporary wall art canvases. Based on the renowned colour system that has been used by designers for the past 45 years as the most reliable way to match colour, these canvases are produced by
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Bathroom
Kohler’s Colourful Sink Collection by Jonathan Adler
It’s Friday so I’m pretty sure you won’t need much cheering up, but just in case you need your day brightening a little I thought I would share these gloriously colourful designs from Jonathan Adler. Working in collaboration with kitchen and bath industry leader, Kohler Co. Adler has created the Kohler Colours Collection, which is available
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Flooring
Patriotic purchases from The Colour Union
Zara Siddiqui-Lester is the talented textile designer behind the colourful company The Colour Union. Her expressive use of colour, type, space and bold pattern has resulted in these fantastic collections of flamboyant furniture and splendiferous soft furnishings.
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Kitchen
Playground kitchen by Elmar Cucine
Kitchen’s don’t come much cooler than this! The Playground collection was designed by Roberto and Ludovica Palomba for Italian kitchen brand Elmar Cucine. Presented for the first time at Milan Design Week this year, Playground is a modular kitchen, which allows planning freedom and customisation for domestic spaces, whilst at the same time bringing a
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Colour
Interview: Lars Contzen’s Colour Courage
I first discovered Lars Contzen back in December 2008 when I interviewed him for Designer magazine. You can read that interview here and find out all about how he uses colour, pattern and form in his surface designs. Anyway, earlier this year I noticed that he was again involved in some very exciting new projects,
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Furniture
Vintage Chairs by Kelly Swallow
Today I came across this absolutely beautiful furniture by designer Kelly Swallow. All of her chairs are individually sourced vintage pieces, so each one has its own unique charm and personality. Kelly uses an exciting collection of fabrics ranging from vintage to designer including the likes of Kenzo, Zoffany, Liberty, Andrew Martin, Designers Guild, Osborne
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Colour
British Summer Time is here!
So the clocks went forward in the early hours of this morning, which as we all know means we lost an hour of sleep but we have also gained an hour of daylight in the evenings. In honour of British Summer Time I have decided to post a few inspirational images from a blog I
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Colour
Colour Psychology: Using Yellow in Interiors
Colour psychology expert and consultant Karen Haller offers her tips and advice on how to make the most of using yellow in interiors