Shades of Grey

Aug 152012
 

A Grey inte­rior sounds drab and depress­ing to many peo­ple, yet if used in the right way, grey can be atmos­pheric, ele­gant & dra­matic. With so many shades mak­ing an appear­ance at the moment it’s now get­ting dif­fi­cult to choose a favourite.

Neu­trals like cream, black, beige and white tie in well with soft shades of grey.

Grey

Grey

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A punch of bright colour adds inter­est. From neon pinks, to yel­lows, turquoise and red, the use of a fresh accent can illu­mi­nate any grey space.

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Grey looks luxe next to metal­lic sur­faces such as sil­ver, gold and cop­per. To cre­ate a sense of opu­lence, add stain­less steel or nickel fin­ishes. Or go for a shim­mer­ing greys in the form of fab­rics with a lurex blend, wall paper, metal­lic paints.

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Another great way to use grey is in the form of black and white pho­tographs, mono­chro­matic art­works or some of your favourite fam­ily por­traits printed in black and white, hung to cre­ate an inter­est­ing grey-scale fea­ture wall.  There are some beau­ti­ful pat­terned and tex­tured wall­pa­pers in a sub­tle shade of grey, which can be both warm and inviting.

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Design Portfolio — Rut Karadottir

Jul 232012
 

Rut Karadot­tir stud­ied inte­rior design at Isti­tuto Europeo di Design in Rome.  She worked at an archi­tec­ture stu­dio, Iezzi & Iezzi in Italy, for some time before start­ing her own design stu­dio in Ice­land in year 1997.  Rut´s designs are char­ac­terised by sim­ple and clear forms with a care­ful selec­tion of mate­ri­als & light­ing  to cre­ate a clas­sic, but warm atmosphere.

I love her work - a won­der­ful mix of Scan­di­na­vian and mod­ern with some rus­tic elements.

Rut Karadottir

Rut Karadottir

 

 

 

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Terrific Teen Rooms

Jul 182012
 

Teenagers are noto­ri­ously hard to please, and dec­o­rat­ing teen rooms can be quite a task. A teenager’s room is his/her sanc­tu­ary; where they spend copi­ous amounts of time doing “what­ever” — a word which gives me goose­bumps to this day. With the girls now both into their twen­ties and hav­ing over­come their unkempt days, I found myself hav­ing to do another teenager room. This time for our son Dae­gan. Thank­fully he’s isn’t quite as finicky as the girls were!

This gallery of Ter­rific Teen Rooms are bound to put a smile on their face — gor­geous spaces for girls and cool lad pads full of fresh ideas.

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A teenager’s room is more than a bed­room. They will want space for a desk, and some­where to lounge around and an enter­tain­ing space too. So you’ll need to make the most of every cen­time­tre of floor­space. With a loft bed, your teen can sleep on the top-level, leav­ing room for a desk or seat­ing below.

At this age, all the colour and pat­tern move off the bed and onto the wall. Replace the bed sets with more neu­tral linen or a nice stripe and encour­age your teenager to choose some­thing dec­o­ra­tive for the walls – or bet­ter still, get them to cre­ate some­thing. They can hang a work of art, graphic decals or apply an adven­tur­ous paint colour.

Don’t be sur­prised if your teen arrives home with a whole bunch of friends in tow. Flex­i­ble, light­weight seat­ing, like floor cush­ions and bean bags, turns a bed­room into a lounge room at a moment’s notice – when the job’s done, stack the pieces away in a cor­ner.

Teenagers are noto­ri­ously unkempt but they can appre­ci­ate that there are times when a mess has to be cleared in a hurry. Give them stor­age options that are easy and even fun to use, keep­ing teenage clut­ter off the floor and school­books at hand when studying.

Encour­age their cre­ative spirit through design. Think vibrant color com­bi­na­tions or brightly coloured fur­ni­ture or stor­age that will inject some style into the scene.

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Les Interieurs

Jul 162012
 

Les Interieurs projects have appeared in numer­ous highly regarded pub­li­ca­tions around the world such as Elle Decor UK, Marie Claire Mai­son Italy, Elle Decor Italy and Vogue Liv­ing Aus­tralia, to name but a few. There is some­thing unique about Pamela Makin and the spe­cial­ized style she brings to her work.

Pamela’s sig­na­ture style is defined by her quest to source one-off pieces from around the world to accent the clean lines of her inte­ri­ors. Tribal arti­facts, smooth con­crete floors and large strik­ing art­work are com­pli­mented by nat­ural tex­tures includ­ing beau­ti­ful aged tim­bers teamed with cot­tons & linens.

Stun­ning inte­ri­ors to match the breath­tak­ing views.

Les Interieurs

Les Interieurs

 

 

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