A box bedroom. Nearly all of us have one but how do we design them to be practical yet beautiful? Whether your box room is a bedroom, nursery, home office or walk-in wardrobe, they can be tricky little spaces to design and get right. We’ve shared our expert design tips and knowledge to help you unlock your box bedrooms full potential.

In this week's blog, I am going to go through some tips and advice I have learned along the way when designing home offices and guest bedrooms that need to work for the everyday, for the odd occasion, and for the future too - not much to ask?!

We’ve shared with you our interior expert tips to nail your living room alcoves and make them work in your living room.

We’ve all seen the beautiful pictures on Pinterest of a room centered around the fireplace. It provides character and symmetry - and of course is amazing at Christmas time. It’s the all important focal point that designers talk about, and the starting point for the design and layout of the whole room.

For most of us, the biggest challenge with curtains is how to hang them. We often see the same mistakes made over and over, and they are easy to avoid.

Beautifully styled shelves can look like a work of art when styled correctly. You may scroll through Instagram and Pinterest feeling inspired, but you don't know where to start with making your own shelves look like the dreamy inspiration you’ve seen. Between the three of us at The Living House, we have over 30 years of experience and top tips we can share with you to help you style your shelves. We’ve broken down our shelf styling tips to make it easy for you to style swoon-worthy shelves in your home.

Here at The Living House we love panelling! It can instantly transform a room from bare and mundane to stylish and engaging. It is so versatile and can add character and definition to your space. It can even help to change the feel of the room, increasing the sense of height or drawing your attention to (or away from) a certain feature. But knowing where to start can be tricky.

No one wants to get it wrong when it comes to updating their home. It’s costly and demoralising. It’s definitely not what you set out to achieve and yet when we meet new customers, we often get asked ‘why doesn’t this room work?’, ‘why doesn’t it look how I imagined?’ and ‘what’s wrong with it??!’.

It’s a new year, the Christmas decorations are all packed away and your home looks a bit, well, empty? Right?

I know there are definitely a few empty spaces in my living room, so here at The Living House we have had a look at the new collections hitting the shops and put together our favourite interior finds. Take a look and see if there is something just right to fill that gap in your home and spruce up your room for the new year.

Murals have been a way for people to decorate their walls since the time of the caveman. Thankfully these days we’ve moved beyond scenes of stick men catching woolly mammoths! With new technology you can have an easy peel and stick image of almost anything to perfectly fit your wall..

It’s no secret that at The Living House we love plants! Whether in our own homes or in schemes for our customers, we feel that no room is complete without a plant (or two or three!).

We love adding a mirror to our designs at The Living House. They almost always bring something extra to a room - and perfectly combine both the practical and the beautiful.

We love using independent home stores when designing our customers' homes. You can always find interesting individual pieces that you can’t always find on the high street. And most importantly, we love supporting amazing small businesses!

December is upon us and Christmas is just around the corner - gulp!! Which can only mean one thing - it’s time to put up the Christmas decorations!

A new build home is at the beginning of its life, it’s box fresh! And this can be a great thing, and it can present some challenges. Here we are going to show you how you can add personality and life to your new build to make it a home.

Despite what instagram shows us, nearly every home has a small room of some sorts; an office, a box room, or a cozy snug and they aren't easy to design!

It may be tiny, but it can still be mighty! Let your creativity flow in the smallest room in your house.

Smell is such a strong, important sense. When we talk about interior design we tend to focus on how things look and feel, but how they smell is key too. And let’s face it, every home has its own unique scent and some do smell better than others!!

Luxury - it’s a look that never goes out of style, and manages to feel both relaxed and refined. It’s a look many of us would love in our homes, but sadly we don’t always have the luxury budget to go with it!

2020 was a challenging year for everyone. It pretty much changed the way we live overnight and the effects have had a huge influence on the home trends we are now seeing.