However most of us don’t treat feng shui rules very seriously, it is very old and advanced knowledge. Feng shui is not only tuition about interior design, but generally about life in harmony with surrounding. It suggests, how to plan the space in your house - living room is probably the most important premises of it.

Location of the living room

Highly recommended by feng shui is south-east direction, but also west, south-west and south are  acceptable. Living room should be the first premises we see after entering the house. (more…)

Glass is often taken for granted in the world of home decor. It appears in every aspect of our lives, from the glass panes in our doors to the glass in our windows. This important material has special design advantages that make it an excellent choice for both the home and furniture.

One of the more useful traits of glass is its transparency. The clear glass allows the home owner to show off the style of their room. It creates a peaceful atmosphere without taking too much attention away from the other features of the room. A rug or hardwood floor can be seen through a glass coffee table, along with the decorative patterns on dining room chairs. Glass is also slightly reflective, allowing light to travel through it as it reflects back designs from the walls, ceiling, and furniture.

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When the recession first began to bite last year it was as if people thought the world was about to stop. They were caught like rabbits in the headlights of the abyss.  As it has turned out the world did not stop turning, the stars did not go out, and not everyone went out of business. Instead, since then there have been subtle shifts and changes, more emotional than physical, whose waves have resonated and rippled through all areas of our lives, including that of design. Affecting consumers, manufacturers and designers.

Until this moment the phenomenal popularity of makeover shows and the focus on celebrity lifestyles managed to produce an anxiety in people who thought their existence would be validated if they bought the right “stuff”.  Magazines encouraged people to “get the look for less”, and this all fed in to people’s  insecurity. They hoovered up anything that glittered, and the trend became that people were happy to pay £500 for a “classic design” copy which had no intrinsic value, rather than spend £1,000 on an original which might actually be worth £1,000. Manufacturers were ready to feed this appetite by rushing to China and the Far East where they could churn out the numbers and maximise their margins, without a thought for the more emotional/cerebral part of the consumer experience. It was money for old rope, leaving the consumers with possessions that were often of no real value – without any originality, or integrity in either design or manufacturing.

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