I am about to embark on the next stage of the interior design adventure! After two years of study and experimenting on my own home, I have my first client meeting! Past experience in my professional services career has taught me that preparation is key. I am looking back at my training on getting to …
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My husband and I find ourselves having the same conversation about our front door every year at this time, which has inspired this week’s blog post. I fell in love with our front door when we bought our house 5 years ago. It is full of character and charm, and everyone comments on how wonderfully …
One of the first things to do when you get a new client or project request is to understand the space you are being asked to design. It is not enough to ask questions over the phone or see the space on a Zoom call. You need to get into the space and do a …
Have you ever had a brilliant idea for a design but have no idea how to get it out of your head and onto the page/computer screen? This was the problem I had for years. My head was a jumble of ideas that I could not communicate and therefore could not do much with. This …
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Open plan living has completely changed our family life, and I now fully appreciate why it has been the design of choice for so many. It encourages us to spend more time together, I can see the kids playing in the garden (or drawing on the walls in the snug), and our Friday kitchen discos …
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Creating something different Welcome to the Spaces by Kelly blog – and thank you for joining my interior design journey! I wasn’t sure how to write my blog, or more importantly, I wasn’t sure how to make it worthy of you reading it given the amount of interior design websites out there. I am not …