Green Interior Design Ideas: Go Natural
April 4, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
The vast majority of interior designers are focusing on using green products and looking at ways to save our planet, this in turn heightens our awareness and many of us are actively seeking ways to lower our carbon foot-print to do our little bit in helping to save precious green energy. The top of most [...]
Interior Design Window Dressing Trends 10: Doubling Up
March 30, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
As we’ve seen throughout this month’s posts there are numerous ways to dress windows this year, with curtains, blinds, combinations of curtains and blinds, pencil pleats eyelet the list is by no means exhaustive, and today we’re going end our miniseries by focusing on doubling up. The concept may not be entirely new but the [...]
Interior Design Window Dressing Trends 9: Invisibility
March 27, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Is it really possible to have invisible window dressings? Well, the answer is two fold, in other words yes and no! Today we’re going to take a look at ways to dress windows so that they disappear or fool the eye into thinking they aren’t really there.
The reason we said ‘yes and no’ is because [...]
Interior Design Window Dressing Trends 8: Longer & Wider
March 23, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
The trend for curtains to be longer and wider than is actually needed continues almost unnoticed, yet if you look closely many of us do this without even realising that we are! Curtains are being hung just below the junction between the ceiling and wall to give the illusion than they are higher and grander [...]
Interior Design Window Dressing Trends 7: High-Tech
March 20, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
There’s no getting away from the fact that we live in a high-tech world where many mechanical objects that were operated by hand can now be operated by remote control. The most used probably being a television remote control – which most of us would find very ‘odd’ if we resorted back to manual operating!
Window [...]
Interior Design Window Dressing Trends 6: Big & Bold
March 17, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
This year big and bold is bang on-trend for window dressings. Unlike last year’s single large bloom this year it’s all about a large overall repeat pattern, with lots of texture in bold colours what are giving windows the ‘wow’ factor.
Even in small rooms you can achieve the look by choosing a curtain fabric which [...]
Interior Design Window Dressing Trends 5: Venetian Blinds
March 14, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
We’re not going to tell you that Venetian blinds or shutters are a new way to dress windows, because you know they’re not! They have been successfully used to dress windows for decades, however, what we are going to say it that today’s Venetian blinds have come along way in terms of functionality, style and [...]
Interior Design Window Dressing Trends 4: Sleek Silhouettes
March 11, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Sleek lines and simple forms are dominating this year’s contemporary window fashions and include long flowing curtains hung from trendy chrome finished metal curtain poles. Creating sleek lines which silhouettes window frames beautifully lends itself to suit modern lifestyles and interior design styles.
You can easily create this look by using eyelet curtains with chrome [...]
Interior Design Window Dressing Trends 3: Luxe Fabrics
March 8, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Home owners looking to add grandeur and luxury to their window dressings have turned to the interior design style of ‘luxe luxury’ using curtain fabrics with tactile textures such as velvet, silk, leather, faux fur and suede. This style also calls for you to look further than the actual curtains or drapes by including trimmings [...]
Interior Design Window Dressing Trends 2: New Colours
March 5, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
New colour trends arrive in a similar way to fashion – each year we are given new colour trends for Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter. So who decides which colours are on-trend? A lot of the predictions run parallel with what’s happening on the catwalks, manufacturers also carry out detailed surveys and studies to which colours are [...]
