Finding The Perfect Warm Neutral With Elle Decoration By Crown Paints

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[Paid partnership with Crown Paints] Selecting a neutral paint colour is a lot harder than choosing any other shade of paint. It is quite easy to distinguish between heavily pigmented colours, but with neutral tones, you have to work out what the base colour is for each shade….

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The Best Pink Paint Colours To Decorate With At Home

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Even though pink as an interior trend has been doing the rounds for a good few years now, the popularity and desire for it to feature in our home decor is just is not waning. Pink as a paint colour is still an extremely attractive choice for many, as the shade has shaken off its ‘feminine’ label and is seen as contemporary and fun..

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Working From Home: 5 Compact Desk Designs For Small Spaces

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COVID-19 has led to a large proportion of the UK workforce now working from home. If you did not regularly work from home before the outbreak, you might be finding it hard to concentrate sitting at the kitchen table being distracted by the fridge, or sat squashed up on the sofa in front of the TV….

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Interior Wall Art Trends For 2020

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The start of a New Year can always stir up a desire to change up your home and give it a slight refresh. While new furniture is expensive, you may not have the time nor the inclination to repaint your walls. So, just how do you give the rooms in your home a whole new, on-trend look and mix it all up a bit? Quite simply, the quickest and most effective way to switch up your home decor is to add in new framed prints, posters and art, which will completely revamp any space.

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Designing A Calm And Serene Bedroom

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A few years ago when maximalism was the big interior trend, I papered all the walls of our master bedroom in a heavily-patterned, floral blue wallpaper. To accompany it, I painted everything else in the room a deep blue to match. While I loved this look for a while (and I still love the wallpaper design), I quickly yearned for a much more calming space to wind down, read, sleep and get dressed in. The room gets a lot of light with two windows in it, yet the deep shade of blue sucked that beautiful morning light away. The jazzy wallpaper pattern didn’t feel soothing or resting and didn’t provide the blank canvas required when choosing what to wear for the day (all the colour and pattern of my clothes intermixed with the wallpaper and the blue, making everything clash).

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5 Simple Tips To Make A Room Feel Bigger

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The decline in square footage for both rental and owned properties has been steadily consistent for a long time as we grow as a population and urban, city living draws new residents every year. As the spaces we inhabit generally become smaller, we need to be clever choosing the right furniture and decor so that our rooms, although modest, feel as large as they can possibly look. Below I’ve listed my five favourite tried and tested tips for keeping a room feeling spacious, all though carefully considering the interior decor..

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Lust List: New Furniture and Homeware Items That I'm Obsessed With

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As the summer months wind down and we move into the new season, new bits and pieces from the AW19 home collections have started to pop-up in-store and online and boy, there are some gorgeous things out there to purchase right now. All the items listed below are currently on my personal ‘lust list’. Some I know I’ll cave in and purchase, others I have no space/need for but would snap them up in a heartbeat if I did!

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