Home Design Centre: Duaris and Hehku. Stairs and Hall. 2nd Part

As mentioned on my previous post I’m going to be explaining the thoughts behind the design of each area of the Home Design Centre Show Room in East Grinstead. Let’s start with the stair case and Hall. Every time there is a stairs that is a beautiful opportunity to do something special as they are […]

A Refined Home: Three Indicators

As interior designer there is certain level of obsession in the appreciation and creation of beauty and how this can be expressed in the interiors of homes. For me this is not a shallow aspiration. Beauty can aim to have qualities that go beyond a self interest or narcissistic approaches. Beauty can be created as […]

The Artist and his Home: The Creation Of a World

During my studies of architecture I was totally seduced by the relation between architecture and art, about how art can live in a space and how both of them transform each other. I had the great fortune of studying in an university where his architect, Carlos Raul Villanueva,   could  make tangible his vision about the […]

The First Steps When Every Centimeter Counts

Being London among the top three most fantastic cities on the planet has many benefits in terms of design  which means access to great locations and suppliers, great views and neighborhoods, fantastic creative minds developing  art, products and technologies, etc. All that has, one can say, limitless potential. However there is one thing that we, […]

Snagging: The Cherry on The Cake

How many of you have gone through a building process from zero up to completion? How many  of you once the project is 75 % complete still have the energy, the eye, the disposition for finishing the  project at the high standard you aimed to when at the beginning of the work? The last 25 […]

Taking Decisions: The Design Brief

At the start of every project   conversations take place for discussing what is what the client wants for his/her/their new home, the wish list you may say. These talks are about the aesthetics, feel, functional, emotional and financial aspects that are part of the creation of a home. It is a process that is not […]

What Does Make Your Home?. Detailing, Use Of Colour And Textures

Home is such a slippery word. And it is slippery because home means something different for every one of us. The feeling of it can be triggered by many things: smells, pieces of furniture, presence of light or darkness, a person, a style of architecture, etc. The thing is that attached to that word is […]

5 POINTS TO LOOK AT WHEN LOOKING FOR A BUILDER

Partnering with a good builder is one of the most important parts in achieving a rewarding outcome when working in the execution of a project. Good design is at one end and good execution certainly is at the other. But what should you expect in a good builder? What are those key aspects the he […]