STYLING 101 | THE LIVING ROOM Most of us are blessed with more than one living space. This space usually incorporates the Kitchen and Dining area, a sofa or two are usually placed somewhere in the configuration and it makes for easy living. I don’t recommend a Television in this space but most people add one so they can watch the news or such as they work in the kitchen. My reasoning is clear; this space is about Interior Styling
Styling 101 | The Living Room
STYLING 101 | THE LIVING ROOM Most of us are blessed with more than one living space. This space usually incorporates the Kitchen and Dining area, a sofa or two are usually placed somewhere in the configuration and it makes for easy living. I don’t recommend a Television in this space but most people add one so they can watch the news or such as they work in the kitchen. My reasoning is clear; this space is about 
Styling 101 | Kitchens
STYLING 101 | KITCHENS I would love to be the owner of a home with 3.6m high ceilings, great feature windows with even greater architraves and original wooden flooring, but I’m not. We bought a tiny cottage and added (on a budget), added again (thankfully on a higher budget), but it’s still a fairly standard home, there are times when armed with my camera I wish it was bigger (or I was smaller) or that those windows weren’t Yin vs Yang
YIN vs YANG Today there is little feminine vs masculine on the blog. We all know that Instagram is full of beautiful images in white, dove grey and blush; they capture our eye and we like them, love them even. I am guessing there’s a little colour phycology involved. That combination obviously appeals to our feminine side and brings out qualities such as compassion, nurture and kindness, but what about the boys? How do they feel about those Display Ladder
DISPLAY LADDER Living in a styled interior isn’t difficult and that’s because everything I have I love and everything has its place (even if it moves around a little). I love this lightweight metal display ladder I found in Freedom Furniture. I was shopping for a client, needless to say I left the shop with two. Its simplistic lines make it ideal for filling a space where you need height but don’t want heavy furniture, making it an invaluable Rug Rules
RUG RULES Rugs and my little house have a love-hate relationship. There are certain rules around them and my home has certain quirks that make those rules impossible to apply. So while I am busy trying to convince clients to spend more to get the right size I have to hide the fact that at home my rugs, though beautiful, are not quite the right size. The reason for this is not cos,t but layout. When we purchased the Changing it up
CHANGING IT UP Those who live in my little house know that when they leave home in the morning it is often different when they return that night. My husband used to struggle with it, now he barely bats an eye. And so today my dining space is on the move with a couple of new prints to grace the walls and of course my new display ladder which I just cant seem to get enough of! I’ve Soften it up
SOFTEN IT UP Hard lines are beautiful. Monochrome is beautiful. Minimal is beautiful. But can we live in a minimal, monochromatic space with hard lines and not feel cold and uncomfortable? Some people can and often our personality type is tied to our interior or an interior we crave. Need I explain! I love monochrome and I love simplicity, I love straight lines and raw materials but I also love texture! So, to soften up I challenge you to add Tea Time
TEA TIME I’m really more of a coffee girl but I needed to style a dining space recently, for which I needed a beautiful teapot. My online travels were a little fruitless and I ended up spying a T2 store (ironically opposite where I was purchasing my Coffee Capsules) but they didn’t blink an eye when I went in sporting my Nespresso carry bag. This beautiful glass teapot took my fancy as did the little Japanese style cups. And so Symmetry
SYMMETRY You know those days when you just need things to balance? Well you are not alone, we associate symmetry with beauty whether it be a face or a garden or a house. Why? Its stable and stable means safe, when something is safe we can relax, when we relax we feel good. A tree-lined drive would lose its appeal should the trees on one side be oak and the other side pine, however gone are the days where we Candle – Light
CANDLE-LIGHT At my little house we have quite a few power-cuts, the large trees combined with old-fashioned power lines mean when the wind starts to blow we start to plan. Seriously, the weekend we moved in we lost power for two days; not the best neighbourhood welcome! Anyway these power outages give me a very good excuse to buy very beautiful and of course very useful candle holders and ‘he who likes to save money’ can’t complain about