The Interior Design Nook Blog

Welcome to the Interior Design Nook blog. I love writing about interiors as much as I love designing them! Here, you can read about all things colour, neurodiversity, and how to create an authentic, personalised and practical home. I always aim to give you a fresh insight and tips beyond the standard interiors advice you’ll find elsewhere, so dive in and enjoy!

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Budget Kitchen Hacks: High End Handles
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Budget Kitchen Hacks: High End Handles

Interior designers talk about investing in the ‘touch points’ - the bits of your home you touch multiple times a day - and ensuring they are made out of authentic materials ... I felt it was important to have solid brass handles for my kitchen cabinets, and to ensure it felt characterful and refined I wanted it to be unlacquered brass. This is the kind of brass that develops a patina over time ... There are 2 ways to get the high-end goods without splashing your cash - second hand or DIY. To make this one work for me, I did both!

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One Scheme, Two Ways
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One Scheme, Two Ways

How the same colour palette and core elements can be used for both adults’ and children’s rooms

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What to do when your child asks for a themed bedroom
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What to do when your child asks for a themed bedroom

In this blog I’m sharing pro ideas to keep your child happy when they ask for a themed bedroom, whilst also creating a scheme with some longevity than can adapt to their changing tastes as they grow, and fit in better with the rest of your house! A lot of parents struggle with the idea of decorating their child’s bedroom in a way that clashes with the interiors throughout the rest of their house … Rather than buying acres of Disney Princess wallpaper, you can make your child’s room much more exciting and foster their creativity by ‘world building’.

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Gloss paint is back!
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Gloss paint is back!

Gloss paint … It’s been creeping up the trend ladder for a few years … I’m seeing more gloss paint used in interiors, and no wonder as paint finishes are a fantastic way to add texture and depth to a scheme. By sticking to matt for so long, we’ve been depriving ourselves of this tool for creating variety and interest without adding too much clutter. Gloss finishes also bounce light around a room, which works particularly well for cosy evenings with lamp light as the nights draw in. Whilst I’m mainly sticking to woodwork for now, I’ve recently painted a ceiling in eggshell to bounce the light around in an otherwise matt room.

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Pulling Together a Colour Scheme with Teal
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Pulling Together a Colour Scheme with Teal

The question of which colours go with teal has come up 3 times this week in the contexts of sofas, tiles and wallpaper, which has inspired me to write this blog. Here are 3 schemes using teal in different ways

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