Interior Styling Advice

27 Apr 18

How to look chic with Children’s Art!

You are standing at the school gates, waiting to collect your child and out they run with a happy little face and clutching an artistic masterpiece. Let’s not beat around the bush here, sometimes this piece of work can be awful. I mean isn’t “junk modelling” just your recycling returned to you covered in Sellotape?! But amid the Rembrandt misses can be some very beautiful Picasso hits. They mean the world to your child and to you and they should be celebrated. It can be the most meaningful art that ever enters your house.

Posted by Phoebe Oldrey in Art & Accessories, Family Home, Interior Styling Advice
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16 Mar 18

Bringing the Outside Inside!

Bringing the Outside Inside! There is a wrestling match between what our bodies crave and what our lives are doing. We are spending 90% of our time indoors yet research is saying that we have a general happiness and wellbeing from contact with nature. Even when I look at my own family I can see this in action. My husband blossoms when he is outdoors as if his soul is filled with joy.

Posted by Phoebe Oldrey in Biophilic Design, Interior Design Advice, Interior Styling Advice
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23 Feb 18

Making an Ethical Bed with Organic Cotton

When we picture cotton, we think of something pure and natural. It’s a virtuous fabric with nothing but good to say about itself. Sadly, this isn’t actually the case at all. Cotton is one of the most polluting crops on the planet with 25% of the world’s insecticides and 10% of the world’s pesticides used on it.

Posted by Phoebe Oldrey in Interior Styling Advice, Shopping & Stuff
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16 Feb 18

Storage in the Bedroom – Remove the Clutter, get the Rest!

As an Interior Designer I see my clients put their bedrooms at the end of the list of rooms they are going to decorate. They want lounges that look gorgeous, kitchens that become the hub of family life and children’s rooms that look cute and make the little people in the house happy.

Posted by Phoebe Oldrey in Interior Design Advice, Interior Styling Advice
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12 Jan 18

A Feast for your Eyes – Beautiful Tableware for a Stylish Breakfast

It’s no secret that I am a nutter for ceramics. It tempts me like no other product. My cupboards bear testimony to this as they seem to be an orphanage for retro coffee pots, which is ironic as I don’t even drink coffee.

Posted by Phoebe Oldrey in Interior Styling Advice
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29 Dec 17

Layering your Textures for a Cosy Room

I always ask my clients how they want their home to “Feel” once we have finished the design work and move from it being a project into being their home. More often than not the words “Cosy and Welcoming” are the ones put forward.

Posted by Phoebe Oldrey in Family Home, Interior Design Advice, Interior Styling Advice
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