Ceramic tiles is one of the most popular floor finishes today. Their durability, water resistance, easiness to clean and maintain, huge variety of colours and designs make them irreplaceable for kitchens and bathrooms. Suitability for other spaces in the house is reduced by cons of this material, such as coldness to touch and accident hazard….
Daydreaming gets a pretty bad rap; especially if you’re caught being ‘off with the fairies’ at work. It tends to get associated with laziness as those with wandering minds get written off as being absent-minded people who can’t get their head out of the clouds. Regardless of what others label it as though, everyone, and…
Have you been to Barcelona? No? Then, you definitely should go! I will give you now five good reasons why: 1) Sensational architecture of Antoni Gaudí. Barcelona is the birthplace of several masterpieces of the legendary Catalan – the Sagrada Família, the Casa Batlló, the Casa Milà and the Park Güell. All of them were granted the World…
Whether it’s for your first home or a rental property that needs a little refresh, buying furniture gives you the opportunity to reflect your personality and have some creative fun. Not only is it something that will provide extensive comfort for years to come, but it gives a space that “wow factor” by adding some…
If you follow my blog, you probably have noticed that some time ago I moved from a wordpress.com free platform to self-hosted wordpress.org site. This move was preceded by several months of meticulous research, hesitations and my attempts to answer the question “to move or not to move?” Finally I have purchased a guided transfer…
Creating and living in a space that looks expensive but isn’t too harsh on the budget is becoming an increasingly easier project. Most of us want our homes to look like a professionally decorated mansion but not everyone has the funds to achieve it – but, there are so many different ways to craft unique…
Labelled as one of the most popular renovation projects, the kitchen is the heart of the home with its entertaining action and busyness. When designing the room as a focal point, homeowners want next week’s look, today, combined with open spaces, convenience, flexible colour palettes and islands – all the elements of a well-crafted kitchen….
Decorating with natural elements such as stones, plants, flowers always creates at home a very relaxing mood and makes you feel close to the environment even living in the center of the megalopolis. Though it might seem difficult to find them during the winter period, there is one thing you can always get for sure in…
Some more musings about interior design trends in 2014: today we shall talk about lighting. Lighting is such an invention that apart from its functional purpose has a huge decorative value too. Some fixtures are able to completely change the look of the space. Especially it refers to big ceiling lights and chandeliers, which I personally…
Beginning of the year is usually the time when everyone is talking about future trends. Though I already made my predictions for 2014, I want to talk in deeper details about one design move, which I personally love very much: animal accents. They were used in interior decorating for many centuries but in the last…
Recently One Kings Lane has published a very interesting article about decoration inspiration from around the world. I found it very engaging as I love eclectic spaces which combine interior styles from different countries. I believe the most important trend going in interior design world right now is that designers step away from “one style…
First of all, why do we need art at home? In a nutshell, it doesn’t have any practical purpose which has furniture, lighting or curtains. One of the reasons is that art has a very powerful emotional impact on us as it concentrates thoughts, aspirations, feelings and fears of a person who created it. In…