Recycled design for the home
Recycled, reclaimed, reused – I love it all. Those who know me know I love to seek out great vintage pieces and flea market finds, but what I love best is coming across innovative designers who upcycle period pieces or recycle waste materials into something new for the home. These days, in our increasingly environmentally-aware... Read more...
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...
How to design a monochromatic room
Last time I wrote for mydeco.com we built a monochromatic (single colour) scheme using cushions based on red. Today, let’s do a whole room with one of my favourite colours - blue-green. Where I live in Australia is soaked in blue-green, no wonder it’s a favourite of mine. Here are some lovely Dulux blue-greens to... Read more...
Dulux at the Ideal Home Show
The Ideal Home Show has just come to an end and 2012′s exhibition was bigger and better than ever. There were so many fantastic ideas to help us create the perfect home and this year Dulux created a piece of Ideal Home Show history with the largest show home the exhibition has ever seen. We... Read more...
Design like the pros: meet suppliers Plant & Moss and enter our new competition
One of our longstanding favourite suppliers here at mydeco.com, Plant & Moss creates truly beautiful and unique furniture pieces. We’ve teamed up with them to offer you the chance to win their star piece, the Clamp Lamp (worth £210!) by entering our new design competition. They are looking for a 3D room design created based on... Read more...
Get friendly with colour: a look at colour theory
Last time I began by showing you some of my favourite holiday photos and images. Our next port of call is some colour theory and – although it’s going to get a bit technical here – I find this stuff really useful. Every colour lesson begins with the colour wheel and there are many different... Read more...
Give your kitchen the Spring makeover it deserves
The Kitchen is one the most used rooms in the house. It is also one of the most neglected. Most of us, when pursuing the house of our dreams, base our signing decisions on this room – yet it’s still one of the rooms in the house that lacks our care and attention. It’s one... Read more...
How to design with an industrial touch
I have always been curious about ‘Industrial Chic’ and how to go about incorporating it into my home. I love mixing colour and different styles but am always a little worried that having those odd pieces of vintage industrial furniture will make my home dark and cold. I usually think of ‘Industrial Chic’ as being all cement and metal. Not so... Read more...
Lose the winter layers and get ready for spring
As we start to throw off our winter coats and dress for the warmer weather it makes sense to do the same in your own home. How we dress our home for spring and summer should be very different to the winter months. Now is the time we shed the heavy fabrics and layers to... Read more...
Trend Bible wish you a design-filled New Year with their events calendar
Happy New Year to all of our followers over at mydeco.com! We’re ready and raring to go this month, as January always shapes up to be one of our busiest times of the year. The start of the year is jam-packed for those working in the interiors industry, with the trade show calendar beginning to... Read more...
How are you decorating your home for Christmas?
On the other side of the Atlantic, the mydeco.com UK blog has just revealed four key looks for Christmas 2011. This got me wondering how you, the mydeco community, are decorating your homes for the festive holidays. So I had a little snoop round your 3D rooms and found that you’re favoring the more traditional... Read more...
Can you help this new 3D designer furnish his master bedroom?
Masters of the 3D tool mydeco’s pack of community members have varying degrees of know-how and expertise when it comes to our 3D room planner and they often share their tips in the forum. The 3D room planner is an innovative tool that lets anyone, be they interior designer, student or housewife, play around and... Read more...
