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This is your tool kit on how to build colour schemes that work. While you work on your colour scheme planning and your moodboard, after doing the 7 step analysis featured in How to work with colour post 1 to 3, print this tool kit out and take it shopping with you … All yourContinue reading “How to work with colour – Tool kit Comment travailler avec la couleur – Boite à outils …”

In my last post working with colour, Part 1, we had looked at the essential 7 things to consider creating a colour scheme that works for your room, Your current decoration items that you want to keep in your new decoration Your current furniture that you own that is in good condition and is tooContinue reading “How to work with colour, Part 2 … Comment travailler avec la couleur, Episode 2”

Many people have written to me about the colour scheme’s I have created and wishing they had the courage to add more colour to their homes. So I have decided to write specifically about working with colour and how to move away from only having neutral colour schemes. There are a few things to takeContinue reading “How to work with colour, Part 1 … Comment travailler avec la couleur, Episode 1 ..”

When I bought the Normandy house one of the first things I thought of, after getting the keys from the Notaries, was how lovely it would look with shutters on … One thing I always loved about old manor style houses in France were the beautiful shutters. It is just not the norm in EnglandContinue reading “Shutter stories … Un histoire de volets …”

My daughter Emma-Jane’s bedroom is the twin of my son’s bedroom in the converted attics of our Normandy home. So the same problems applied with the lack of feeling of space due to the dark wood beams and floor. I decided to take the same approach to painting the floor and walls white as thisContinue reading “My daughter’s bedroom makeover … Relooking de la chambre de ma fille…”

As my son David entered his late teens his room, decorated 10 years before, urgently needed updating to meet his changing needs. I wanted to achieve a bridge from teenager to early 20s, and create a more adult space where he could do his homework, relax and chill with his friends. A common problem forContinue reading “My Son’s bedroom makeover … Relooking de la chambre de mon fils!”

Thank you for all the positive feedback on my kitchen design and decorating posts. Following your requests here are some more photos of the before and after kitchen! Merci pour tous les commentaires positifs sur la conception et décoration de ma cuisine. Suite à vos demandes, voici quelques photos de la cuisine avant et après!Continue reading “Photo Album, Kitchen – Cuisine!”

In attacking the kitchen part 2, if you remember, my house had chosen white as the colour for the kitchen cupboards, to reflect the gorgeous light from the sunsets and optimize the room layout with a large island unit in the middle. Obviously an all white kitchen, facing west, could feel quite cold during theContinue reading “Attacking the kitchen – Part 3 … Attaquer la cuisine – Episode 3”

As you read in « attacking the kitchen – Part 1” … My first step to a new kitchen was to understand the problems I needed to solve, the room faults and the space I had to work with. Before thinking about colours and which kitchen to buy, I started by looking at the best designContinue reading “Attacking the kitchen – Part 2 … Attaquer la cuisine – Episode 2”

So, after about 6 months of noting and gluing in my notebook, and the house had been completely rewired to make the electrics safe, I decided first priority was to attack my kitchen. Your priorities might be different; however I really recommend just doing one room at a time, when there is a whole houseContinue reading “Attacking the kitchen – Part 1 … Attaquer la cuisine – Episode 1”