Tuesday 24 September 2013

Industry News Bulletin

Here are some articles that Living Interiors have found this month:

Lots to choose in paint or wallpaper
If you are planning to decorate, choosing between paint and wallpaper will probably be the decision that has the most impact. Factors such as the size of the room, the use of the room and the light will affect your decision, but there are some pros and cons to that apply to either paint or paper. Painting walls is easier than wallpapering them but paint can chip and marks show up easily on a one-colour expanse.


Wallpapers to Decorate Kids Bedroom
Using wallpapers to decorate rooms is becoming more popular and admiring these days. Wallpapers can be considered as an easy way to make your room look more trendy and stylish. Decorating your kid's room with wallpaper will be one of the best ideas for you to make their look room more lively and dynamic. There are a wide variety of wallpapers for your kid's bedroom in the market. Make sure that you are selecting wallpapers for your kid's bedroom by taking their Interest and opinion into account.


Tired Victorian terrace becomes ultra-stylish family home
Secondly, there are the interior finishes, which display Miranda’s acute sense of colour and fabric. Choosing elegant, muted tones from Farrow & Ball ranging from greys to duck-egg blue, offset with similarly subtle fabric-textured wallpapers, all the rooms blend elegance with comfort, with highlight colours provided by silk cushions, glassware, and paintings.  Personal touches include the huge Bampton Design sofa that can take five sprawling boys at once, and the sliding cover for the vast television, “because I hate to see a big TV in a room if you’re not watching it”. Attention to detail includes different fittings — all from CP Hart — in each bathroom, from a plain Duravit basin downstairs to the curvy, rather deco glass-topped double basin in the master bathroom.


Restored Queen Anne home opens its doors for Sacramento tour
Now, the house feels like it’s always been this way — a gentile Sacramento beauty. A morning glory-style Edison phonograph, an heirloom passed down through Lathe’s family, greets visitors to the parlor along with several vintage photos of the couple’s two families. Gorgeous wallpapers — reproductions of Victorian originals — decorate the walls. In a corner stands an ornately carved fireplace mantel, one of the few original features rescued from the old home. It didn’t burn because it had been taken by a disgruntled former tenant who later sold it to Lathe.

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