When it comes to what you can see in a room, make it look good! When it comes to what you can touch in a room, make it quality! There is nothing worse than visiting a lovely big new home that your friends are proud of and you turn the lever of the door and …
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Can we ever choose the perfect floor? I am totally disillusioned. With all my experience and product knowledge, I still get goose bumps when a new floor product is laid. Will it live up to expectations, is it worth the extra cost, can I repair it if it gets damaged….the questions are endless. I have …
Finally I have started a website about styles and periods! It is new so bear with me, only a few decorating styles and period decoration topics available now, but more coming. So if you are interested in Victorian, Edwardian, Gothic or Georgian periods we have that covered, also Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Shaker Styles. …
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Ok, I have taken a bit of a battering about my last article on bureaucracy killing design creativity. I apologize. Perhaps New Zealand is just overloaded with bureaucrats, and after all we do live in an earthquake zone so our building standards do have to be very high. Anyway I was having a bad day.I …
Is Bureaucracy Killing Design Creativity? Yes, most definitely! Do you know how many government acts, local body acts and planning acts we have to look up before we even start to put pen to paper? So many that I can’t list them all, and that is in a small town like Christchurch, New Zealand. We …
How do you stay on top of your profession? How do you make yourself the interior designer that everyone wants to use? Education. Yes, with education and constantly learning you can be the best informed designer on the block! So what? How does this make me the best designer? Word of mouth. If you can …
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