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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Sensory positive home: Auditory considerations
This week we are looking at auditory considerations - the links between the sounds in your home and your wellbeing. Whilst I can’t stop your kids from stampeding around shouting, I can suggest ways to make it grate less! The textures in your home are actually responsible for the way it sounds! The more textile elements you can bring into your home, the more dampened the sound will be. A wall of glass (i.e. bifold doors) might bring you closer to nature with a view of the garden, but it makes for a noisier space. Crittall or Victorian style mullions…
Sensory positive home: Sensory toolkit
If you have sensory issues, your home has a big impact on your wellbeing. The way your home looks, feels, sounds and smells is really important, and it’s crucial for the rooms in your home to support the way you need to feel and behave in those spaces – a calm bedroom, a gentle but uplifting morning shower, a relaxing evening bath, an energising and focussed home office.
This is the first of 5 posts to guide you through creating a sensory positive home. Today we are taking an overview, identifying sensory needs and where they apply in your home, and
How to Mix Patterns
Today I’m talking in detail about how to successfully mix patterns in an interior. The first step is to make sure you have a cohesive colour scheme. I like mixing lots of colours in an interior, but where the palette tells one clear story. I might only use a tiny amount of some colours, but I love the depth it brings to an interior compared to having everything matching.
Help, I have Eclectic Taste!
How to know what works together and what doesn’t when you have eclectic taste.
Say No to Novelty this Christmas
How to avoid unnecessary excess and have a meaningful, sustainable Christmas.
Why you should pick your paint colour last
This is a fool-proof guide to the order of decisions when decorating a room. Simply put, fabrics and wallpapers come in limited colours but paint comes in any colour imaginable, so don’t limit yourself by picking it first. Here’s how to do it right.
One Scheme, Two Ways
How the same colour palette and core elements can be used for both adults’ and children’s rooms
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’.
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.
Interior Design Tricks to Save Money this Winter
With the rising cost of energy, we are all looking at an expensive winter. There are some simple things you can do with your interior design to help.
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
