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For all the Interior Design ideas you need!
Continuing in the new format, this month I want to tell you about a an Art website I found, called Easyart. This website has a large choice of pictures for you to personalise your room and, as well as the common serches on subject eg. Art Nouveau, Silkscreens or on artist eg. Dali, Monet etc, you can search by colour. A great way of finding that perfect piece to coordinate with your colour scheme and to finish off your room design.
Also this month, I've just taken delivery of some pattern books of new collections from a couple of my suppliers. I'll show you more next month but as a teaser, see the picture on the right from the Tulipa Collection by Nouveau Fabrics. A lovely range of prints and weaves created from historical archive designs from the 1920's and '50's. Colours are bold and fresh with a variety of different textured cloths. Tulipa Trimmings and tie-backs are specially coloured to compliment
Remember - All fabrics, wallpapers etc are available through MCH Interiors!
So, please contact us if you need any help or information and don't forget our Interior Design Services, hand-finished soft furnishings and the interior design courses and workshops.
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Testimonials
A BIG thank you to all the following who gave permission for us to use their comments.
Good fun, very interesting. Teaches you to look with different eys at interior decoration and gives you a step by step approach - Anja, London
Good fun making mood boards and insightful-especially the psychology of colour - Richard, London
A good introduction to a fresh look at design - Mary, Buckinghamshire
You'll be amazed (of ) the ideas you can find! - Pat, Cambridge
If you want to learn about colour schemes this is the right place for you - Ina, Surrey
'It was all very interesting. I got more than I expected from this course - Jean, Stevenage
Really enjoyed myself thank you. Very interesting and fun course to do - Joanne, Welwyn Garden City
A great insight into how to start to use colour- the right way - Danielle, Doncaster
Enlightening! - Garry, Basingstoke
...its very inspirational and makes you want to do more - Kerry, Chichester
I had a lovely day. Thank you. Interesting and educational. - Jo, Welwyn Garden City
...first step to getting YOUR home how YOU like it - Ranna, London
A very useful course that helps you believe in your visions - Louise, Cambridge
Briliant real inspiration at whatever stage you are at - Anne, Cambridge
A solid and unpretentious view of interior design. Thank
you - Lissa, Essex
More than I expected as I had no idea that there was so much involved to get it right. Absolutely excellent! - Tracey, Kent
Thank you so much for all your help with transforming my home into my own personal sanctuary - Christine, Kent
Very interesting and helpful in terms of focusing on the use of colours and patterns for a room - Maxine, London
Very interesting and good fun - Dee, Luton
Good fun, quite a lot to try and fit in the day - Michelle, Newton Abbot, Devon
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France
Following on from last months story relating the saga of finding the Barn in the Haute Vienne, this month will provide details of the floorplan, pictures of how it was and work needed to make it habitable. So, part II of the story...
Floor plans and work to do.....
You left us becoming the proud owners of our barn and its 7 hectares of
land all sounding very ideal. Our first stay there was not quite the pleasure we hoped for, more of an adventure. The French man who bought the barn and did the conversion work had not finished off any job. He had installed all the wiring for the lights and sockets but there was a BIG problem - no electricity supply to the Barn at all. We negotiated with him to complete this but finally accepted the reduction in cost and the need to do it ourselves. This lack of power was quite a challenge and I will explain more about this in future months.
 As you can see from the Elevation Plan the living area of the Barn was only approximately half the available space. The possibility of extending up into this unused space was one if the reasons we decided to buy this property. So, in time and once the ground floor work has been completed we hope to apply for permission to convert this space into bedrooms and bathrooms.
Other major uncompleted work was the central heating. Again all the internal pipework was in place, as were the many radiators and the costly boiler. However, there were a couple of rather important issues; one being the lack of a flue and another being no oil supply, and again more on these in future months.
Below is the layout - select an area on the floorplan to see a photograph of how it looked when we bought the Barn.
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