As always on the blog guys! Its everyday is a uniquely different day to shine and be the ultimate best version of you! I trust the weekend was well spent with family, friends and special ones. Today on the blog, we bring you the ultimate furniture care guide for you. (more…)
Hey guys, welcome to another exciting Thursday on the blog. Today being the international women’s day, we join the rest of the world in celebrating women across the world in our blog post- International women’s day: Four interior designers we love. We celebrate their strong spirit, resilience and will to challenge the ubiquitous narrative of a patriarchal society. It is all too commendable to see women achieving heights that may have been camouflaged as overreaching in the past. Think of every sector in the world now and you will be sure to find a woman driving change and doing the things she was told she couldn’t do. Science, technology, politics, business, architecture…there’s a woman making a change. We have compiled a list of some of the female interior designers we love. From luxury designs to minimalist approaches, we can’t get enough of their designs and how much they have projected the fresh possibilities of design in Nigeria and Africa at large. (more…)
Hey guys, welcome to a brand new week and of course another brand new #MondayToShine. Don’t forget, regardless of how the last week turned out, here’s another chance at making up for everything that wasn’t quite right in the last week. Yaaay! There’s a mood in the air that is quite undeniable guys! Yes, we are in the week of love! Valentine’s celebration is just a day away!! And for all you givers and receivers of love out there, we have taken the time to compile an amazing Valentine’s Day bedroom décor inspirations for you! It doesn’t have to be an all expensive treat at a fancy restaurant, who says you can’t transform your bedroo (more…)
Debola stepped into the house with a cloud of anxiety hovering carelessly above her head. Upon letting herself into the living room, a warm and unfamiliar aroma rushed into her nostrils along with the air she breathed. Like it was the medicine she needed, the smell began to slowly evacuate the anxiety that reeked from her pulsating heart. It softened her-like butter before you add sugar, in the first step of making something sweet. It was her first experience of how scent could naturally slip into rhythm. It was hypnotic, voraciously satisfying and she soon realised that she couldn’t stop gulping the air even if she wanted to….” Today on the blog, we are all about scents and how to Lift the mood in your home with scented candles! Read along and learn something guys! (more…)
Accent Wall Tips and Tricks are those very much overlooked things that most people fail to consider when shopping for accents. Many times, people go accent shopping with great expectations, hoping to pick out the most unique pieces and colors but unfortunately get home to unleash their interior decor skills only to find out that the items are a total mismatch- both in color and style.
Today’s post will be giving very detailed guidelines on how you can achieve style and class all by yourself without having to hire an expert.
For the minimalists in the house who just like it simple, doing a bold accent wall doesn’t take the class out of it contrary to popular beliefs. Use a bold color of the pieces on the wall while you can use a more subtle variant of that same color for the wall paint.
Bright yellow accent wall
Or in this case tiles and shelves can also do the wall much needed justice, giving it the desired uniqueness it deserves. This trick is that the wall speaks for itself so you won’t need to complement it with many pieces.
Stone accent wall
Shelf accent wall
This will help you in more ways than one especially if you have difficulties with picking complementary colors.
A color wheel
When shopping for accents, most people end up buying too many colors because they feel that’s the only way it can be beautiful. This is not true. Use complementary colors like- pink&green, green&yellow, purple & lilac, etc.
Ask yourself these basic questions when shopping- What color do I want to be predominant? Do I want it to pop or blend in? That decision is yours to take hence you must take your time to properly study your environment and decide what works best for you.
These are some of our tricks on choosing the right accent walls and colors to give your space the style it deserves.
That’s all for today on Accent Wall Tips and Tricks. Hope you enjoyed it? Please feel welcome to drop comments, observations and suggestions in the comment box below.
Hello guys! welcome to a brand new #WednesdayToShine and how best can we welcome you other than giving smart , easy and creative ways to solve your daily home cleaning and organisation needs. Today on the second edition of our new blog series #TheLazyGirlsGuide – A Lazy Girls Guide To An Organised Dressing Table promises to be as insightful as you can imagine! Enjoy
It’s almost that time of the year when we start preparing to usher in a new year. For some of us, a fresh coat of paint or new furniture usually seems like the best way to go. Gbemisola Oke of SPACE Magazine gives us an interesting chunk on how to properly manage and create more space in our homes, basically the way to go about Prepping your home for the New Year.
The first (and most important) step in keeping your home clutter-free is to remove the excessive possessions that are stealing our lives, time, and energy. Most of the time our homes are filled with items we no longer use, these items might be clothes, gifts, souvenirs (most Nigerian homes), papers etc. To have an organized home it is essential that we get rid of those unnecessary items we have in our spaces. Making the decision to get rid of your old things may actually be the hardest part of de-cluttering. Its Christmas season you can donate to charity. As a rule of thumb anything you didn’t use in 2017 has to go because you pretty much wouldn’t use it in 2018. An easy approach to de-clutter your home is by tackling it room by room as doing it all at once might be overwhelming and confusing.
Start by taking everything out of the space, giving you a clean slate and evaluate every item. To remain organised while de-cluttering, I recommend having 3 boxes or bags labelled To Keep, To Discard, To Give Charity. When deciding what to let go of or store I strongly recommend that you let go of all sentiments and you are completely honest with yourself. Make sure that what you keep is ‘home worthy.’ Is it useful? Do you love it? Does it fit? Do you need so many? Is it time to let go? Ask the questions before putting things away.”
So the excess lot has been ridden off, what next? A guiding rule is to keep like things together. Storing like things together will not only help you keep your home organised but it will also make your life easier. Always think about how you want the space to function and what kinds of activities you will be doing there. It is essential to store items that will be frequently used in easily accessible areas such as the front of the shelf or surface area or close to the areas in which they will be used. While items that are not frequently used can be placed further away or at the back of the shelf.
Now that you have gone through the hard work of de-cluttering your home, which is a vital part of Prepping your home for the New Year, it’s important to develop a cleaning habit. This could be cleaning your spaces once or twice a week as opposed to cleaning once every month. Doing this will make you home look cleaner and organised; it will also help you identify and eliminate unwanted items in your space. With continuous use, it is important to also evaluate your storage areas over time, if the areas are getting cluttered again you need to ask yourself the following: is there is too much items in the space? Is accessibility a problem? You answers to the questions will serve as a guide in helping you modify your storage areas.
The last step is to prevent the clutter in your home from returning in the future. To live is to consume. It cannot be avoided – especially in our society and culture. It is important that you think twice about what you bring in to your home. So just before you make that purchase or collect that souvenir at a party ask yourself the following questions:
Is this item really needed? Do I have a place to store this when I get it home? How much extra work will this possession add to my life? Am I buying it for the right reasons? Asking this questions will definitely help you slow down your accumulation process.
Towards the last quarter of every year, interior design experts across the globe come together to make predictions about possible design trends that would rock the coming year. It’s that time of the year again. 2018 is less than 100 days away and design experts have started making their predictions. SPACE magazine’s Adeyinka Odutuyo shares the trends to look out for in 2018.
One major interior design trend that rocked spaces in 2017 is the 3D PATTERNED WALLS. This chic design for walls is an extended version of the wall paper design that made a comeback in 2015 and rocked 2016. Experts are saying the wall paper trend isn’t completely out of style, but the 3D patterned wall is gaining momentum in the design industry. This design is sure to make its way into 2018 as a lot of space users are still lagging behind.
Marble table tops and counter-tops; especially in shades of white and light grey continue to trend as they are still defining spaces in 2017.
3D wallpaper Image: Pinterest
You heard that right. The use of glitter on walls was an interesting way to breathe life into walls that had seemingly been dead or just appeared painfully boring. Thanks to wall paper and an extended version of wall papers, glitters just don’t do the trick anymore. If you are looking to revamp your wall with glitters, the glitz days are over!
This year, Dulux’s colour expert Andrea Lucena-Orr says, “The one defining attribute with interior trends is that they’re continuously moving, changing one or more colours in your home will keep your interiors up-to-date forward” No wonder Sheila Irwin, a leading design expert and founder of Maison de Cinq, calls on general space users to hitch onto a velvety ride for 2018! “Velvet is a trend that started getting really big last year in fashion, and now it seems to be hopping over to design”
Velvet furniture Image: Decorpad
Designers predict that in 2018 messages would seep deeper into our homes. To be honest this is already a trend in a lot of homes. However, American design expert Michell Gage says on Realtor.com “It’ll become increasingly popular, given the way we all communicate on social media. It will remain more of a complement to a room’s story and live on in smaller finishing touches like pillows and art,”
Typography Image: ArtX
As we look ahead towards 2018 interior design experts predict that futuristic iridescent accents would make our list. Lizzie Grover, Creative Director of Hutch, an interior design tool, predicts iridescent accents will appear in back splashes, tables, and other decorative pieces.
Iridescent accent Image: Design Connection
Leading paint brands PPG and Dulux have released their colour palette predictions for 2018. From all indications, the year promises to be a BOLD one.
Dulux color palette Image: We are scout
Black flame (PPG colour of the year) Image: PPG
Deep Onyx Image: Glidden
Wow! Look who made it to the big Two Zero One Eight. Its 2018 lovelies!!!! Its a brand new year! And we couldn’t be more thankful for this amazing opportunity to be here with you all once again. May the new year come with brand new opportunities to drive our dreams and ambitions to where we envisage in our hearts. In the spirit of the new year, we hereby officially welcome you to 2018 with our brand new blog series titled “The Lazy Girl’s Guide” You could as well call it “The LGG”, has a nice ring to it!
Now this one has been particularly fashioned out for the female folks out there who are constantly multitasking, and are particularly keen about doing things the smart and easy way. The LGG would be bringing you smart, simple and easy ways to go about your house chores and day-to-day activities. In The LGG, we say “Do it easy!”
“The Lazy Girl’s Guide” comes up every Wednesday on the blog and across our social media platforms! Be sure to join the train, because you never can tell, there just might be an easier way to do laundry for example!
