How to beautify your home with brocade
When it comes to updating your home, using a neutral colour palette is the safest and most reliable way to achieve a new look. There are many ways to renew your decor, including dressing your room with fabulous furniture and accessories. Brocade is highly popular at the moment within the world of fashion – broderie... Read more...
Getting to know Chloe Croft
When it comes to finding a beautiful, vibrant piece of art or cushion for your home, any one of Chloe Croft’s masterpieces could fit the bill. Her work is made from scalpel-cut paper and the resulting images are as intricate as they are striking. She has translated these designs into a fantastic range of prints, canvasses and... Read more...
Get your home ready for the Jubilee
As we return to work after the bank holiday weekend, our thoughts have turned to ‘when is the next one?’ Good news, the next one is the Jubilee weekend at the start of June and we are given an extra day to celebrate 60 years of The Queen’s reign. The patriotic trend has been moving into... Read more...
Colour recipe – analogous colour scheme
Now that we are confident with designing colour schemes based on a single colour (in my previous posts I used red and blue-green), let’s move on to other colour recipes using multiple colours. The simplest way is to use colours which are close to each other on the colour wheel. These are called analogous colour schemes.... Read more...
My Paris address book
As I have just returned from my latest trip to Paris, I thought I’d share with you some of my favourite places to visit. Yves Andrieux & Vincent Jalbert take antique fabrics and do something wonderous with them. Their shop in the Marais district of Paris is an Aladdin’s cave of treasures. Clothes, bags, cushions, curtains... Read more...
The Natural Selection trend, forecast by Trend Bible
With an emerging consumer backlash to mass-produced goods comes a desire for simplistic, tactile and primitive forms, hand-crafted and hand-woven materials. Products that build an emotional connection resonate with jaded consumers, who are exercising a much more considered approach to shopping. In part this is because of the continuing squeeze on disposable income, and also... Read more...
Sitting pretty – how to create a sitting room of calm sophistication
The sitting room, a place of relaxation and solitude, a hide away from the chaos of day-to-day life. Well, maybe in our hopes and dreams! However, this does not stop me wanting to create a space that reflects this sentiment. I am never shy about saying that I favour a neutral colour palette. I love... Read more...
Leaf, Bough and Blossom – celebrate the start of spring with Vintage influences
May began this week, officially bringing the start of Spring. I don’t know about you, but I’d quite like the weather to catch up and realise this fact! Instead of celebrating outdoors amongst the flora and fauna, why don’t we bring the May Day celebrations inside the home this year? Historically at this time, according... Read more...
Vintage up your boudoir
With a lot of people leaning towards a more vintage romantic feel for their bedrooms at the moment I thought I would base today’s post on how to achieve this look. Vintage is all about soft colours, delicate patterns and textured fabrics – all of which bring an instant romantic feel to a bedroom. This... Read more...
How to create a tropical paradise in your home
The ultimate spring and summer 2012 trend has to be Tropical Delights, as seen on countless recent catwalks. The stunning florals and turquoise blues featured in these shows also look fabulous within the home. An array of island colours such as yellow, green and pink can brighten and enlarge rooms. Tropical Delights has been a... Read more...
On the sofa with Lucy from Rowen & Wren
If you look for stunning, beautiful and high quality products for your home, look no further than mydeco.com supplier Rowen & Wren. From their hugely popular Dayani button backed chair (seen in the image of Lucy below), to the smallest touches, every product is carefully chosen for its effortless style. We caught up with Lucy,... Read more...
The kitchen – the heart of any home
The kitchen is truly the heart of the home, the place where we socialise and entertain, the room in my home that is buzzing with life and energy. Cooking, laughing, eating and drinking, it is by far the most used of my rooms. Well I say ‘cooking’, I have only just learnt how to whip... Read more...
