Winter is coming! The next few months will be dark and gloomy outside, so brightening up your home is a must. Unfortunately, this is also a very expensive time of year due to increased energy bills as well as the festivities. While improving your property is vital, it’s a task that will have to be…
Every year we tend to look at one room in our homes and think ‘that could do with a bit of a décor change’, and one of the rooms we use perhaps more than any other is the dining room. This room is a haven for a family get together, whether that’s through a bowl…
At its heart, interior design is a simple thing. The concept is to make a room look good, what’s hard to understand about that? When you’re about to start decorating a room, you’ll find there are three key elements to the interior design. The Flooring No matter what room you’re decorating, the flooring will always…
As a homeowner, you will have the opportunity to play around with design ideas for the home. And you need to make the most of these opportunities. It’s an excellent way to improve the visual appeal and aesthetic value of the home. This is good because it means you make the home more attractive to…
Each year in December the world immerses in crazy Christmas rush…. We frantically look for gifts for our families and friends, reading culinary books and composing festive menus, buy numerous beautiful yet quite useless bijou to decorate our homes. Despite all this madness, there is something magical in this time, which makes us anxiously waiting…
So many times I stepped into luxuriously decorated apartments and houses, where at first glance you understand that professionals were working on its design: perfectly matched furniture, harmonious colour scheme, cautious choice of accessories… The only thing that was missing was the elusive sense of hearth and home, soulfulness, which is so hard to define….
My dear readers! Today I am thrilled to have my friend Dana from Me, Myself & DIY blog here on L’Essenziale to share some really cool ideas on how to repurpose ordinary jars, baskets & buckets. Enjoy! ——————- Items like these make great repurpose projects for DIY decorating and organization. Not only because of the…
Whether you’re building a new home or giving your old one a refresh, nothing is as personal as the choice of colour you use. Pick a colour! Any colour! Sounds easy right? Unfortunately it’s not that simple – but there are some tools and tricks that can help you along the way. For many, choosing…
As I mentioned in my previous post, last week I have become a lucky tenant of the attic apartment. I have always dreamed about it (who knows maybe it is the impact of numerous French movies that I have watched?). Anyhow, there is always a certain charm to live in an attic, not without reason it is a favorite dwelling for artists and bohemian…
These days, a bathroom isn’t just a place where you shower and clean. Instead it’s being transformed into an intimate and romance-inspired oasis, integrated with the master bedroom to truly create your own pampering retreat.
She’s rich, in-depth, complex and full bodied. Her dark intense appeal draws you in and leaves you feeling intoxicated, yet refreshed – and no, I’m not talking about your Mrs. I’m talking about that bottle of vintage red that you’re going to be buying for your new wine cellar. We all know that wine starts…
Me too… It’s been a while since I am working from home and to be honest I am still dreaming to have a proper “office” – or at least a place specifically designated for my job. The main problem was that in the last 2 years my husband and I have changed already four apartments and it…