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Designers’ Colour Trends for 2015 – Match Classic with Contemporary

Sometimes snobby, sometimes informative, always influential – interior design style bible Elle Décor’s select poll of international designers’ expectations for 2015 colour trends in interiors is out. But how do you match something as fleeting as a ‘trend’ with your favourite furniture and art pieces? Continually redecorating and reupholstering is unrealistic, costly and time consuming […]

How Did You Spend Sofa Sunday?

With the growth of online shopping enabled by smartphones and tablets, people increasingly use their mobile devices to purchase not just smaller items, but also cars and houses (and leather sofas, of course). You all saw the media fuelled madness of desperate discount shoppers battling for bargain tellies on ‘Black Friday’ – but how many […]

Choice of Leather In Chesterfield Sofas

Our leather Chesterfield sofas epitomise us here at The Chesterfield Company. We take great pride in handcrafting every single piece of furniture with quality solid beech or birch hardwood frames, overlaid with our exclusive and luxurious leathers. We use 3 leather hides for each of our leather Chesterfield sofas which are European in origin and […]

How to make a small space look bigger

We can’t all live in luxurious homes with ample space for all your furniture. Therefore it’s important that you utilise the space that you do have in order to make a smaller space appear bigger. Here are five ways to do just that – ranging from the everyday to the more adventurous. 1. Light and […]

5 Ways To Match Vintage And Modern Furnishings

Something old, something new… if you can’t decide on a single era for your interiors, there’s nothing wrong with mixing and matching vintage and modern furniture, if you do it right. And there are plenty of ways to make old and new items work well alongside one another, so here are five of the best […]

Curtains Or Blinds? How To Decide!

We all need our privacy from time to time, but what’s the best way to get it when you’re in a room with windows? The two usual suspects are curtains and blinds, but which is better? Curtains Curtains are what most of us probably had in our homes when we were growing up, and the […]

Glorious Coffee Tables For Your Living Room

Living rooms often have plenty of places to sit, but not many surfaces on which to place anything else. A great sofa is the centerpiece of any lounge, but for practicality’s sake it’s always useful to have a coffee table within easy reach. Choose wisely and this can add more than just a resting place […]

A Little Guide To Mix And Match Dining Room Decoration

Mix and Match is a hot trend in dining room decoration, and a good way of dressing a room on a budget, to achieve a distinctive visual style, or if you simply want some understated elegance without the usual formality of a matching dining room furniture set. Despite the apparently random nature of Mix and […]

5 Brilliant Storage Ideas

Regardless of how you feel about storage, it’s something every home needs, and you face the decision of whether you want your storage to be visible, and part of your interior design scheme, or hidden away in ingenious places around your home. Here are five of our favourite storage ideas, which together offer a selection […]