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Articles,
Bedroom
| April 16, 2010
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Does greige put you to sleep?
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Another favourite among my Twitter followers was greige. What is greige, some of you may be asking? Well, until recently I hadn’t heard of it either, so I looked it up: “greige is an unbleached and un-dyed cloth or yarn” but also “a colour blending gray and beige”. That’s when I went: aha, my living room is painted greige! I called it taupe at the time, but people kept looking at it and calling it either dark beige or gray. Now I can tell them it’s greige!
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Cool TV rooms
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Remember the days when we had to live with the bulky and horrible picture-tube TVs in our family rooms? Back in those days, any stylish living room décor meant having to hide the TV in a cabinet or built-in entertainment unit, well away from sight.
No more of that! Now with the cool flat screen models people are no longer embarrassed to show off their TVs. Some of the new LCD TVs are design pieces in their own right and because they are slimmer and lighter, you can easily wall mount them in your family room or fit them in a cool built-in entertainment unit or above an elegant console or sideboard.
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Articles,
Hotel Décor
| September 19, 2009
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Sanctum Soho Hotel
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Most people will argue that a hotel is just a place to sleep over whilst you are away from home, however, I strongly believe that whenever possible we should do it in style. There are fabulous hotels out there which can provide us with great inspiration and ideas for our homes especially for the bedroom. I would like to share with you at least one design or boutique hotel, as we call it in Europe, every week.
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Articles,
Featured Blog
| September 20, 2009
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House of Turquoise delight
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I have always been passionate about colour. As baby I had very little choice and had to be a very pink little person, in my teens I was just colourful, in my early 20s I was a black & white person, having moved on to blues in my late 20s. For most of my 30's I have been an orange person until Erin, from House of Turquoise, made me discover the most exquisite colours - turquoise, teal and shades of aqua.
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Articles,
Architecture
| October 07, 2009
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Bates Masi + Architects
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The Pryor 300 sq. metre summer retreat in Montauk NY is an excellent example on how you can create a home to be lived and enjoyed which is both beautiful and environmentally friendly. Bates Masi + Architects, a long established architecture practice from Long Island, designed this house based on the “less construction better environment” principle. This is a prefabricated house, assembled rather than built and uses organic finishes and materials.
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