Woman & Home, December 2015
3 Apr 2016
Woman & Home created a wonderful cocktail corner with our gold wine glasses and combined them with plenty of gold Christmas decorations to make them look even more luxurious!
How to do Glam without being Garish
1 Apr 2016
Most of us like a bit of glam, me in particular, but it’s too easy to go over the top and then it turns into garish and possibly bling! How do you avoid this and still have a home that feels glamorous and sexy? Constraint is the word! Difficult to do I know but it’s all in the subtle touches. The photos below illustrate my point very nicely as it’s a beautiful home that has that lived in feel but at the same time there is that element of glam that lifts it above the ordinary.
New Magazine: ‘Modern Gardens’
25 Mar 2016
‘Modern Gardens’ is a new gardening magazine to hit the stands and I love it so I thought I would shout about it! Being an obsessive gardener I buy most of the gardening magazines on a regular basis and inspirational and informative though they may be, they don’t really relate to the small suburban plot most of us have. Whereas, ‘Modern Gardens’ is full of inspirational design and style ideas for creating an interesting outdoor room without being overly horticultural.
6 Golden Rules for Decorating with House Plants
12 Mar 2016
House plants are a lovely way to bring the outdoors in, in summer and winter, and a hot trend whatever your style of interiors. House plants bring an organic quality to your home and a feeling of tranquility and, as an added bonus, they are good for cleansing the air. My six golden rules for decorating with house plants are:
1. The first golden rule has to be to make sure the plant suits the situation – ferns will frazzle on a sunny window sill whereas sempervivums will relish the sun. So ‘right plant right place’ is essential for a successful display. I have caused, through neglect, the demise of many a house plant in my time, though not spider plants and ivy as they appear to be indestructible and always come back from the brink however sad they look.
SS16 Interiors Trend – Let’s Get Tropical!
4 Mar 2016
Tropical is by no means a new trend in interiors, but it’s certainly picking up pace this season and is definitely one of the key looks for SS16. Think lush tropical greenery and palm trees with colonial rattan and then add splashes of colour with vibrant cockatoos and mix it with gold pineapples and insects for a real dazzle of sunshine.
As you may know, our decorating style isn’t for the faint hearted, so if we were to do this look it’d be full on and OTT. It’s the perfect trend for colour loving maximalists to go wild… But there’s also plenty of ways to bring in the look without feeling like your home’s been overtaken by rainforest, here’s our key tips.
Urban Jungle Bloggers- Jungle Animals
22 Feb 2016
Urban Jungle Bloggers is a monthly series hosted by Igor and Judith to encourage us all to bring a little more green into our lives. Each month they, plus many bloggers worldwide, share ideas to create an urban jungle through styling ideas, DIYs and green tips & tricks and this month the theme is ‘wild animals and the cohabitation between jungle plants and jungle animals.’ So this is the perfect opportunity for my pair of roaring lions to take centre stage and wow the audience!
The Press Love Our Gold Kitchen Utensils!
15 Feb 2016
I feel like all I really need to say is three words – GOLD KITCHEN UTENSILS. That pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?!
“We’re loving Audenza’s seriously sexy new gold kitchen utensils” Livingetc
Suffice to say, as soon as we saw this new range of gold kitchenware, we just knew you’d love them as much as us. Often practicality has to come at the price of beauty, but not anymore! You know it’s our mission to banish ugly, functional objects from the home… a mission you guys have told us you wholeheartedly agree with and these kitchen utensils hit the nail on the functional head.
How to Cover a Lever Arch File
4 Feb 2016
Continuing our mission to banish ugly, functional objects we have returned to the lever arch file and given them a contemporary vibe in gold and marble. Gone are the old days when sticky backed plastic was fit only for lining hidden kitchen cupboard shelving or for covering the kid’s school books. This marble effect version in cream, grey and white is very stylish and perfect for the job of transforming utilitarian lever arch files. And since marble and gold is the hit of the season we have brought you our very own version of glam office décor.
3 Tips for Styling Brass in your Home
14 Jan 2016
Who would be without brass? We at Audenza have always loved a bit of brass so we have brought you our 3 top tips for styling brass in your home. It’s a great way to add some luxe to your interior décor whatever your style – be it vintage, contemporary, industrial or an eclectic approach. Brass is a warm earthy colour that adds cosiness – with a touch of glam – to your interiors and its reflective quality makes spaces seem bigger. It’s a big vibe in interiors for the coming season so there’s a lot out there to choose from.
Vintage Home by Judith Miller- Book Review
2 Dec 2015
‘Vintage Home: 20th-Century Design for Contemporary Living’, by Judith Miller is a fabulous book for the discerning collector of vintage, and a style guide for how to combine vintage and contemporary pieces to create a visual feast.
Judith Miller, a renowned antiques expert with many books and TV shows to her credit, leads us through the tastemakers of the past century with three main chapters, Deco World, New Look and New Moderns, which have been divided into subchapters to cover every possible design style. As my home is eclectic and individual I was intrigued to see the sumptuous interiors shots of how others have combined eras to create their own individual look.
