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  • Cork Flooring

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    Cork flooring Cork flooring is cool again. Cork flooring is a natural product and it’s environmentally friendly because it’s harvested from the renewable bark of the cork tree without cutting the trees down. Thus, not only is it ecologically sound, but also it’s practical and it’s affordable.. Its practical properties include being durable, anti-static, sound…

  • Vinyl Floor

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    Vinyl floor You can buy either vinyl floor tiles or vinyl floor sheets. They come in hundreds of different patterns, styles and colors. As with everything in life, you get what you pay for. Avoid the really cheap and thin vinyl floor covering – these get torn easily and they DO look cheap. Generally speaking,…

  • Panelling

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    Panelling As I wrote in the previous article, wall panelling is back in fashion. You can utilise the traditional tongue and groove wood panels, or the Shaker Style framed panels – but it’s much more interesting to have wall panelling with a modern twist.. Tongue and Groove Alternative Instead of tongue and groove panels why…

  • Painting panelling

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    Painting panelling Having attached your wood panelling to the walls as per the previous article, you can then decide whether you want to varnish, limewash or paint it.. To paint panelling If your panelling is old and the paintwork is peeling or lumpy, you should strip & sand it back to bare wood. Fill holes,…

  • Wall Panelling

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    Wall panelling Wall panelling is back in fashion – not only the country-style painted wood panels but also the wood panelling that defined our interiors in the 70’s. Of course both applications need a modern twist. This article will help you to choose the right panelling for your interior. Panelling is ideal for walls in…

  • Art Deco

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    Art Deco Art Deco was the dominant design style between two world wars. In our minds we associate it with skyscrapers, exciting ocean liners and Hollywood glamour. It was actually a design movement originated in Europe to modernize art, architecture and design – and living. It was known as modernistic or Style Moderne until the…

  • Oriental Decoration

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    Oriental decoration Oriental decoration has been fascinating the western world for centuries. Most design movements have been inspired or influenced by them – from the Victorians to Art Deco, from Arts & Crafts to Retro… The current trend of interior design and decoration is to be eclectic – mixing different styles and artefacts from various…

  • Nursery Decoration

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    Nursery Decoration Many parents make a very basic mistake when it comes to decorating a nursery: they create a baby-blue theme for a boy and baby-pink room for a girl. The problem is, babies do not see these colours properly – they see them as grey.. So imagine yourself being put into a boring grey…

  • Decorating Small Spaces

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    Decorating Small Spaces More and more of us are moving to cities and of course there is less and less space for us to inhabit. Apartments and houses get split into small properties – whilst newly built housing provides smaller homes than ever before. This is all happening in an era when we are constantly…

  • Decorating Teen Bedroom

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    Decorating Ideas for Teen Bedrooms So your children have become teenagers. They want their own space, their own style, their own identity. Their room needs to be redecorated.. Teenagers, more than ever before, are pressured by their pear group – they want the same things they friends have or what they see on TV or…