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Make Your Bedroom Unique

November 28, 2013

Scatter cushions can be a fun and interesting way to incorporate character and personality into your bedroom. Use cushions in a range of styles, colours and patterns to give your bedroom more depth and create soft and inviting ambience. Incorporating different textures can also be a great way to give that extra dimension.

Keep your fabric looking fresh for longer

To ensure that your fabric lasts longer and stays looking fresh and clean ensure that you vacuum it at least every fortnight. Using a brush attachment, take particular care over areas where ambient dust settles, such as on the tops of chair arms, cushions, curtains and lampshades. Dust is often left to settle on these…

The Louis Study

November 26, 2013

Jean-Christophe transformed a home office into a French Louis study with the use of some renovations and reworking of the existing furniture, as well the addition of new custom furniture.   The shelf and cabinets were already built into the room, and Jean-Christophe suggested to update the pieces by changing the doors, installing a pelmet…

Designing a Harbourside Bedroom

November 20, 2013

When designing this bedroom, Jean-Christophe could not ignore the stunning harbour views that the residents were waking up to every morning. The colours and styles used were chosen to create a luxuriant and inspired setting which reflected and enhanced its surroundings. To optimise the natural light within the room, it was decided that the walls…

Opening the Door to the Beauty of Italy

January 13, 2013

One never forgets the doors of Italy! In most parts of the world doors are but doors, passages to walk through. But in Italy, it’s a very different story.  Italian doors have an allure and charm that is wholly enticing and unforgettable to any passer-by. As you walk down the cobblestone pathways of Florence, every…

Creating An Entrance to Come Home To

August 12, 2012

We are often rushing around, going to work, to the shops or gym and hardly noticing just how much we are popping in and out of the house. This is why the entrance to your home is so important. As they say, ‘first impressions last’ and styling your entrance just right can make a great…

French bedroom setting with bombees

Decorating the Bedroom

July 12, 2012

  The bedroom is the most private room in the home. Some of us see the bedroom as a functional space designed to promote comfort and good sleep. Some of us see the bedroom as an intimate and personal space where we can be surrounded by personal possessions and relax at the end of the day. Either way, the…

Toiles de Jouy

May 13, 2012

  Nothing is more French than ‘Toiles de Jouy’. Toiles de Jouy is a printed cloth most famously produced by the manufactory of Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf at the French town of Jouy-en-Josas, in north-central France. Often just called ‘toiles’, this fabric usually has a white or off-white background on which a repeated pattern depicting a delicate…

The French Bergere

April 16, 2012

  The French bergere brings elegance and comfort together in a timeless French design. Before the eighteenth century chairs were often rigid, upright in appearance with straight backs and designed to bestow an air of status upon the sitter. During the reign of Louis XV, however, chairs in grand homes started to fall into either of two…