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Mid Century Modern MCM: The Perfect Blend of Form and Function!
It has long been a dream of mine to live in an original mid century bungalow with high ceilings, brick fireplaces and huge picture windows. While our search for that perfect property continues, I look to online platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest for inspiration and admiration! They influence and fuel my love for MCM design frequently. Renovating furniture has too always been something I love to do, and MCM style pieces are still my favourite. When my client projects suit, I will endeavour to source and renovate pieces to include in them. Helping to support individual design schemes, and my efforts in keeping them as sustainable as possible too. Putting…
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MINDFUL DESIGN: What Interior Design means to me
For those who don’t know me (and trust me, I won’t take it personally), I’d love to share a bit about my take on interior design and what it truly means to me. Let’s start with the basics: I’m a practical designer and a natural problem solver. When I think of interior design, I see it as more than just picking out colors and fluffing up cushions—though, let’s be honest, that can be fun too! A client comes to me with their design dilemmas and aspirations, and my job is to craft solutions and aesthetics that make their lives easier and more enjoyable. I genuinely believe that our surroundings play…
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What does ‘Home’ mean and why we need to feel a positive emotion towards a space to call it home?
I wrote a blog last year about Mindfulness and our homes. How we connect to our homes, not just physically but emotionally also. What makes home a ‘home’? Home is described to be a place where we feel most comfortable and happy. It does not necessarily have to be a house made form bricks, it could simply be a log cabin in the woods, maybe ‘home’ is back with your parents, it really can be anywhere for anyone but the one thing all these things have in common is that they make is feel a certain way that no other place does…..comfort, happiness, safe, contentment. It is true what people…
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How to decorate with Small Spaces
So the average new build home is getting smaller and there are many of us who live in smaller spaces, apartments etc or even just have small rooms within our homes and this can cause us with dilemmas, as to how best to decorate the space without making it feel too small. Now I’m gonna start off by saying the way in which I approach smaller spaces is not right or wrong, you must do what feels right for you but hopefully this will help some of you, so here goes! Let go and declutter! As with the start of any design project I always recommend to commit to the…
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The Future of Interior Design: A Mindfulness Approach to our Homes
“This blog post is a part of Blogging Competition organized by CGTrader” and link to the contest page (https://www.cgtrader.com/blogging-contest) So what is Mindfulness? I’m seeing it more and more these days and have been thinking a lot about it and how this approach can contribute to how we design our living spaces. Mindfulness can be described as “1. the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.“their mindfulness of the wider cinematic tradition” 2.a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.” When I think about designing I consider…
