A very interesting interview with one of England’s most famous Interior Designers called Tricia Guild.

Tricia built up the Designer Guild company over many years, and really led the field with her passionate use of colour, design and detail.

It was established in 1970 by Tricia Guild, and Designers Guild designs and wholesales furnishing fabrics, wallcoverings, upholstery and bed and bath collections worldwide.The company is headed and owned by brother and sister, Tricia Guild, Founder and Creative Director, and Simon Jeffreys, Group Chief Executive. The Designers Guild business philosophy is to combine creativity and innovation with the highest levels of quality: quality of design, product, service and people.

More information on DG HERE

A great Master Bedroom designed by Lisa Joy Young, this is her personal bedroom that she assembled by hunting out great buys and accessories and all on a budget, very creative and stunning. Lisa  got a ton of requests to do a house tour, so  she  decided to start with her master bedroom. Her Bedroom is using a four poster american style bed, with some great bedlinen. Thanks for watching!

This short video of 4 minutes covers by Libby Langdon covers 5 design mistakes that home owners make with small spaces, so if you have got a small space have a good look and be surprised.  Here are the top five design mistakes and how to fix them quickly.

This short video gives some great visual ideas if you looking for a Classic Bedroom Furniture Design ideas but have a tight budget proving that it doesn’t have to be expensive. You can decorate with Traditional Beds and other decor and easily stay within a budget. Maybe also consider attending furniture auctions or using Ebay to find classic beds that just need a polish or repaint to give you a classic look

This bedroom is given a classic monochrome look, it is given a chic update with some very feminine touches of colour and strong patterned wallpaper. This particular video is covers the use of colour, furniture and accessories. Ideal for a very “girly’ look bedroom suiting all ages.

It shows the whole process from start to finish and is produced by BBC Good Home magazine

“It’s time to flirt with scariness,” says Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, “because behind every door lurks the chaos factor — you!” An architect may design identical houses but, once people move in, each house takes on the owner’s personality.

Laurence demonstrates how to apply the design rules to reflect individual personality. “Nearly every room you go into says something very, very specific about the people who live in it,” comments Laurence.

The most obvious and fundamental design differences are between extroverted and introverted people. “The extrovert personality type is linked to thrill-seeking and that risk-taking element can be found in what they do with their homes,” explains Professor Barrie Gunner of the University of Sheffield. “They may be inclined to use bold and exciting colour schemes and they like to have a lot of things around them creating stimulation.”

Introverts, however, are biologically different to extroverts. “They have different types of nervous systems,” adds Professor Gunner. “The introvert is less tolerant of physical stimulation.They will tend to shy away from bold reds and oranges and yellows and prefer cooler blues and greens.”

Laurence, maybe not surprisingly, advises people to just be bold and have the courage of their convictions.

In this fifth video episode Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen offers top tips on creating balance and order in modern-day homes. Learn the basic interior design principles of balance, rhythm, harmony, emphasis and proportion to create a superbly designed room

In the 21st century, homes have taken on the role of providing a spiritual nourishment for stressful lives. Laurence demonstrates ancient rules of design that use focal points as energy lines within a room, long before the word Interior Design was ever used, i.e an early Feng Shui.

He reveals that there are even more fundamental reasons for humans preferring symmetrical arrangements. According to psychologists, this is a recreation of human physical symmetry. Most people prefer the aesthetics of balanced faces because it indicates a healthy diet and strong genes.

By watching this video and using the basic interior design principles used by every interior designer to create a great design you  can have a great looking home that is fun and healthy.

In this fourth series about design advice rules on Texture and Pattern by the BBC, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explains how texture and pattern both have a major fundamental role in creating the right mood atmosphere in a room. “There is something inherently satisfying about a repeated design, and every culture has evolved different ways of making patterns,” says Laurence.

But Laurence feels that , despite the British home owner who love  decorating their homes, they  have lost their confidence, especially in motifs,  and that flat colours are still the most popular choice of wall covering!.

Laurence looks back to the Victorians and their bold decorating style, which embraced the new patterned and textured wallpapers. “From the 1840s to the 1960s, Britain had a love affair with pattern … indeed, most of our houses were designed with pattern in mind,” he says.

In the BBC laboratory studio, Laurence demonstrates the fundamental rules of pattern such as how to choose the right size and type of pattern for a room; how too large a repeat will make a room appear smaller; and how to visually extend a pokey room.

This video number four is a must watch if you are trying to plan a makeover of your home or a new property, and if you have a classic small or large classic house then watch this and learn.

The third video in the BBC home interior design series covering Lights and Lighting . Being filmed in England this excellent film covers the particular British problem of poor light and being in the northen hemisphere in relation to Home Lighting and high quality interior design and the way it affects your home.

“Light is much more than something that lets you see. It affects the way we feel and directly influences our moods. To understand lighting you have to understand that it is more than just electrical fittings, sockets and bulbs,” says Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

His first challenge in the project house is to transform a north-facing Victorian sitting room. “You have to remember that the Victorians really didn’t trust daylight. As far as they were concerned, it was something that came into their rooms and faded their carpets or turned their ladies odd shades of brick. So they made these great barriers between them and daylight: heavy swags, tassels, fringes …”

Laurence offers practical advice and tricks of the trade for maximising daylight and transforming rooms with atmospheric and moody lighting.

The project kitchen poses a different type of challenge. Here, Laurence must create a flexible lighting scheme to cope with many different conditions. Using the unique studio Design Lab, he demonstrates how to blend three layers of light into a more stimulating, dynamic atmosphere.

The choice of bulb also affects the mood of a room, he reveals. Red- and yellow-tinted light creates an intimate, warm mood, while blue and green gives a cooler, serene mood. With over 3,000 different light bulbs on the market, Laurence asks why most people in Britain still remain loyal to the standard bulb.

This new video series gets right down to the basics of design in this fascinating back-to fundamentals series. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tackles real problems in real homes as he explores six themes: space, colour, light, texture and pattern, balance and order, and personality. In addition to his own in-depth experience of design principles, he calls on a colour forecaster, psychologists and a perception specialist to explain and show the science behind the how and the why of Interior Design.

Taking a real home where a design problem is all too apparent, he demonstrates some simple psychology and basic experiments in a ‘design lab’ back at the studio — and it’s all done without knocking down walls or spending large money.

Space comes under the spotlight in the first programme. Lack of space is a common problem in British house which, surprisingly, have 215 square feet less space than Japanese homes, with an average of only 1,291 square feet .

“The cardinal sin that the British indulge in beyond any other nation is the concept of agoraphobic furniture that feels it needs to keep its back against the wall at all times in case something unpleasant happens to it!” quips Laurence.

By painting the walls a paler colour, bringing the outside inside by strategically placing an eye-catching object outside the window and switching to light-reflecting flooring, the brain is deluded into thinking that the room is bigger. Suddenly, the crowded living room is calmer and seems larger — thanks to a little bit of science and the tricks of design rules.

Eye brain specialist Dr Ione Fine comments: “Half of interior design is illusion.”And on a practical note, Laurence shows why it’s better to buy a couple of two-seater sofas — because three people never sit on a three-seater!