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7 Tips For Planning A Garden With Lucy Roberts
It is both thrilling and daunting to design a garden and with numerous overwhelming decisions to make, it’s important to devise a plan. To begin, analyse the size, shape and in which direction the garden faces: your sunniest walls, shadiest...
Find Out More How To Combine Pattern, Colour And Print In Interior Design, with Penny Morrison
It takes skill to design a beautiful room combining pattern, colour and print. If you are unsure about how to balance pattern, colour and print in interior design, consider beginning with a simple scheme and adding accessories – from cushions,...
Find Out More Natural Christmas Decorations – A Creative Holiday Season
The pear tree is symbolic in Christianity of love of mankind, salvation and immortality. In ancient times the wild pear tree also represented prosperity, happiness and health: an emblem of sustenance, abundance and long life. In this scene the branches...
Find Out More GARDEN ORNAMENTS: CLEVER WAYS TO ENHANCE YOUR OUTDOOR SPACE.
Whether you have a small courtyard, a patio or a sprawling country garden here’s TheHouseDirectory.com‘s guide to how garden ornaments create impact in your outdoor space. Planters magically soften hard landscaping. Garden structures – obelisks, rose arches and trellis –...
Find Out More OUTDOOR FURNITURE FOR 2023 AND BEYOND.
Someone once said that having a garden is like having an extra room in your home. We are enjoying a glorious Spring and now more than ever we can appreciate this extra space to dine, relax and cherish nature and...
Find Out More HOW INTERIOR DESIGNERS AND BRANDS ARE ADAPTING TO LIFE UNDER LOCKDOWN
The Designers’ Advisor Polly Williams asked some of the interior designers and brands in her thriving Camberyard Collective how they’re coping during the pandemic. Focusing on three key questions – how it’s affected their work; what, if any, silver linings...
Find Out More HOW WE BUILT THE FRENCH HOUSE
Hand-crafted lighting, earthenware pots, carbon steel pans, raw brass and copper taps and sinks, marble basins: suppliers are artisans or small family-run firms producing timeless designs for The French House. In this post, the founders Mark and Elke share with...
Find Out More Reclaimed Leather in Interiors
Adam Hills and Maria Speake, the creative team behind interior design and architectural salvage practise Retrouvius, have a reputation for transforming ‘one man’s trash into another man’s treasure’, reusing cast-off materials in unexpected ways. Their Harrow Road warehouse is a...
Find Out More 10 Tips For Designing A Home Office
Home offices are essential in the age of kitchen table entrepreneurship, freelancing and working from home. Design of a home office shouldn’t be an afterthought; environment has a significant effect on your mood, sense of wellbeing, and productivity. Here are...
Find Out More Family businesses: on working together
We’d like to introduce you to some of the family businesses listed on TheHouseDirectory.com. It’s a tenuous path for family members to work together without conflict and we celebrate companies that have successful inter-generational working relationships. We asked the different...
Find Out More Amy Somerville at Milan Design Week 2019
Amy Somerville are proud to have taken part in the Palazzio Della Meravigle joint exhibition at the historic Museo Bagatti Vasecchi as part of Milan Design Week 2019. The pieces launched at the exhibition were created especially for the ‘Sala...
Find Out More Top tips for building a brand & developing your business
Polly Williams, the multi-award-winning Designers’ Advisor, founded Camberyard, an interior design business development consultancy, in 2015. Inspired by the belief that collaboration is better than competition, she also formed the Camberyard Collective, a select group of like-minded designers, brands and...
Find Out More How To Get A Good Night’s Sleep: advice from the experts
Our blog this month focuses on bedrooms, with advice from specialist members of The House Directory regarding your daily routine, your bedroom environment, the optimum bed and mattress to get a good night’s sleep. “A good night’s sleep is the...
Find Out More How To Choose Tiles
In this blog we have invited a selection of expert members of The House Directory to offer insights and guidance for how to choose the best tiles for your home renovation. Explore the tile choices and colour schemes in these...
Find Out More How to Declutter Your Home: Easy Steps to Get Things in Order
In this blog we bring you 12 tips from renowned decluttering experts alongside selected products from The House Directory members to help to organise your home this new year....
Find Out More Seven Festive Tablescapes
Inspire your own festive tablescapes this holiday season with a selection of ideas from The House Directory's members......
Find Out More The A-Z Advisory – Paint Colours & Finishes with Little Greene
Ruth Mottershead, creative director of Little Greene, answers TheHouseDirectory's questions about paint colours and finishes in this indispensable guide...
Find Out More Salvo, Truly Reclaimed & Sustainability
by Cheryl Knorr. Salvo was initiated to reduce the amount of salvageable material that goes to landfill. In association with its online marketplace Salvoweb, the company recently launched an authentication label, Truly Reclaimed. The label assures that materials conform to...
Find Out More ‘The Makers Who Make Us’ – Soane’s 25 years of British craftsmanship
To mark their 25th anniversary Soane has launched the Egyptomania collection of fabrics, furniture and lighting. The collection is inspired by thousands of years of Egyptian history and includes a collaboration with artist Yasmin Hayat. Established in 1997, Soane is...
Find Out More FIVE ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR GROWING YOUR INTERIOR DESIGN BUSINESS
Jenny Grove - author of Interior Design: A Professional Guide, Jenny Grove, shares her Five Essential Tips for Growing Your Interior Design Business, with advice from some of the most successful and enduring interior designers working in the industry today......
Find Out More 10 Essential Kitchen Tools by Borough Kitchen
The House Directory asked the team at Borough Kitchen to recommend their top 10 essential tools for every kitchen....
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