Design Blog by Alena
Apex window dressing solutions
Apex windows is a huge architectural design trend these days in Ireland. To be honest, I will be surprised to see new build without one. It's undestandable that tall windows look well as a part of exterior, you get plenty natural lighting inside and not to mention view outside. [...]
Your Ideal Contractor
This is second part of blog on How to Hire Right Contractor. Very often I work with professionals from different trades, some I meet myself, others come from recommendations. Unfortunately, sometimes great expertise, high profile and superb skills isn't enough for complete positive experience. Everyone has different personality [...]
How to Hire the Right Contractor
Every project starts with an idea. You already see in your mind how functional and beautiful will look your place. You have an idea what sort of work needs to be involved. Although, not always we have skills or time to make specific work ourselves. It is time to hire [...]
Bright and Light Playroom for kids
Playroom design is fun and creative process. Although, it can be challenging sometimes. This space must be multi-functional and suitable for kids with different interests. Working on design for a family with two kids, it was very important to make room suitable for a young teenager girl of 14 [...]
Special Effect Paint
I hope you enjoy springtime! Days are finally longer, we have more sunlight and I'm finally getting my energy back to do more things. I hope you get something positive these days too! It's been very busy winter and I didn't have much time to do any DIY recently. [...]
Ideal Furniture for Small Spaces
Spring time symbolizes a fresh start not only in life, in general, but in living environment too. It is a great time of the year to de-clutter rooms, make fresh decorative changes, add new colours in interiors and most of all rethink furniture layout and storage solutions. I would [...]
Planning Kitchen Layout
Hello Everyone, As you know, I often write Blog topics as an answer on the most often asked questions hoping to reach more people with similar interest. Let's talk about kitchen layout! Have you ever found yourself in situation when you looked at empty kitchen and made plans, [...]
Build extension before baby is born
Every project has a unique story just as people I have an opportunity to work with. From the name of this post, you can guess that project was for a growing family. Let's call them Mr. and Mrs. M. I met Mrs. M when she was having difficulties to [...]
Commercial Design for small and medium Business
Most of my blog posts contain advice to help people with residential design, who decorate homes themselves. Although, as a designer I often meet local businesses and there is a great number of owners who also like or choose to decorate themselves. It is true that Residential and Commercial design [...]
Top Tiles Trend in 2017
Tiling is one of the most important inputs during any renovation. Taking complexity of the work into consideration, tile choice should have timeless look with classic touch. My personal observation showed that once people put tiles down, it will be 10-15 years before they replace it. This fact makes tiling [...]
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