Seasons in Colour

There are many reasons to spruce up your bedroom. Whether you’re moving into a new apartment, rearranging for a new season, or welcoming a new addition to the family, a remodelled bedroom is always a good idea. Sometimes, you may simply want more space for storage. Whatever the reason, creativity and the use of flexible furniture from IKEA can give you the look you desire. In this article, we’ll take a look at some ways to make your bedroom sparkle. 1/ Create a bespoke worksp

If you go through the blog archive you'll see that this blog really took off in 2015. As I started to invest more time on the blog, at some point I decided that I didn't want to spend more time with a laptop on the sofa. There were plenty of rooms to use in our house and we definitely had enough furniture lying around to make a new home office from scratch without investing in anything new. Around January 2015, murals company Surface View was running a competition to win one

Improve the ambience of your interior by decorating with a fitting colour. Read this advice from Callender Howorth on the best colours of the various spaces. The importance of a good colour scheme in your home or business cannot be emphasised enough. The right colour palette can have a transformative effect on your surroundings, altering the mood and the perceived temperature, along with enhancing feelings of well-being. It can also help create the illusion of space by illumi

Usually when an interior designer launches a new furniture collection you expect to see a few pieces that are complemented by some accessories on the side. But this is KELLY HOPPEN, MBE we're talking about, and this blonde amazon (yes, I am utterly convinced she may well have been Hippolyta in an earlier life) would never do things in halves. So, in collaboration with Resource Decor - who have also collaborated with Andrew Martin and Tracey Boyd - she launched a dreamy collec

We all long to be recognised, in some shape or form (and if you don't have this type of worries, how lucky you are!) be that by colleagues, peers, family, our children or husbands/wives, boyfriends/girlfriends. It's lovely when this recognition comes after you've worked hard for something whatever that is (and no matter how small or big). In my case, recognition came from my design hero - Abigail Ahern - after I designed my very own office space, which weirdly enough, she lik

Light isn’t purely about function. It’s about creating a space that feels inviting – a space that feels like home. When it comes to cotton ball lights, you are taking light to a whole new level: you are also adding texture and of course colour in a way that can bring a whole scheme together. With this in mind I wanted to introduce you to a brand that is set to become a household name in the UK: COTTON BALL LIGHTS. Here's my illuminating interview with brand founder Luc Clemen

That's how I feel, having spent the most of my day at the Greek Consulate in London's Holland Park. The bureaucracy, authority and sense of self-importance that made their service (that's what it is meant to be, a service to Greeks abroad and non-Greeks wanting to travel to Greece) a tasteless exercise in how to get 4 people do the work of one. The endless forms and stamping. Stamping forms is turning into a sport of some kind, and I do predict that if modern Greeks had their

I have been rather vocal about the scandi look lately here on Seasons in Colour as well as on Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram. While my own home is infested with dark grey and inky blue colours on the walls and a combination of vintage finds and antique furnniture by choice, I do - some days - crave the simplicity of this monochrome style that the Northeners have gifted to the world. I love wooden floors (which is the main reason we ripped off all the carpets from our curren

At the South of Lisbon in Portugal, near Comporta, in a charming seaside environment, the decoration of this house cladded with soft blue wood was taken on by SA & V who created an atmosphere full of happiness and evocative of holidays. Expect light filled rooms with white walls, unclattered look and pops of pink, orange neon across the bedrooms. My personal favourite? The stripy double ottoman in the living room is a true gem! Similar chairs by Calligaris - the New York chai

The summer is officially here and we should not really be thinking about carpets, but actually this is the best time of the year to be thinking of buying a rug. Why? Because they are usually discounted during the summer months! You will have seen my posts on the mancave, this really dark office I have decorated for my better half. His new desk which is mid cetury and kind of industrial looking is currently sitting on top of an Afghan rug. the colours are working well together

Like many of you out there, I HATE cables. And we have a lot of those at my home. It comes with the territory, I guess, as my husband loves gadgets and his desk seems to grow tentacles overnight. This is one of the reasons I am upgrading him from a plaIn glass desk (you can see everything behind and its a hot mess!) to a massive antique oak pedestal one that will hide everything properly. So I’ve been waiting impatiently for the wireless revolution to kick off. Wireless inter

Let's face it, if marble floors shout "expensive", marble walls take it to a whole different level. Genuine marble of course lasts a few lifetimes and in some countries is extensively used as means of keeping a home cool (like in my native Greece). A genuine marble wall in a home, however, entails not only major expense, but a major remodel. So rather than undergoing such an extreme project, repainting a wall in a faux marble finish results in that classy marble look at a fra

Internationally renowned design festival, Clerkenwell Design Week returned for its sixth year in 2015 (19-21 May), bringing together the latest innovations by some of the best creative forces from the UK and around the world. The event yet again encompassed the true spirit of the design community in one of the world’s most vibrant, creative hubs. The structure of the 2015 event revolved around four focused exhibitions, housed in Clerkenwell’s most historic buildings. The Desi

You come back home and throw your jacket and bag on the first chair you find in front of you, hang it on the banister, lay them on the sofa or (for the worst offenders, including my 5 year old) on the floor. I thought I'd give you a few ideas on coat stands currently in the shops so that you can hang your coats, jackets and bags in style. Starting with iconic designer label Alessi. The coat stand below called Pierrot is from their 2015 collection and was recently featured on

Ever notice how you can do something for years, then all of a sudden – eureka! – it truly becomes your own? That’s what happened to Style at Home style and food editorTara Ballantyne following a two-year stint in Norway. “I’d been drawn to Scandinavian design for years,” she says, “but it took actually living in Oslo for it to really become part of my style.” And by the time Tara returned home to Waterloo, Ont., it all clicked: She saw all the ways that Canadian and Scandinav