On a cold cheerless February day, we bring you a colourful feast for the eyes. This is the Victorian home of ‘The Girl with The Green Sofa’ commonly known as Nicola. Also, home to husband Sam and two boys, Jack 11 and Alfie 8. Nicola’s maxim is to mix the old and new, and throw in as much pattern and colour as possible to achieve this maximalist and eclectic style. A girl after my own heart then!
Sourcebook: Top 10 Tropical Wallpapers
8 Feb 2020
The go to trend in wallpapers right now is tropical wallpaper, and we love it at Audenza. I’ve always been a big fan of wallpaper as I do love a pattern, it gives so much more depth and vibrancy to a room. The top 10 tropical wallpapers we have picked for you is just a taster to get you into the mood, from dark and moody, to fun and quirky, to elegant and restrained. The choice is yours, but they are all wow!
Our beautiful, and deliciously exotic, Antique Bronze Palm Leaf Floor Lamp is a sure way to add glamour and excitement to your home décor. We love it, and our customers do too. it’s one of our best sellers for the beauty of its design, with graceful palm fronds that you can imagine swaying in a warm breeze, to the stunning shadows it creates against a wall when lit at night. As always, we like to show you our products in different settings, so here we have the antique bronze palm leaf floor lamp styled 3 ways.
If your hearts desire is a black living room then we have just the thing with our tour of Lara Bezzina’s dramatic black living room transformation. From a tired and soulless space, to a vibrant and welcoming room. Lara and her husband achieved all this with their own hard work and creativity. It’s often the case, that a need to keep hold of the purse strings leads to an imaginative, and ultimately, a more unique home.
Tell us a little bit about yourself
I’m Lara and have a huge passion / obsession for design, especially in relation to interiors. I live in a village close to Northampton with my husband and Cocker Spaniel Coco. I’ve been interested in art and design from a young age but didn’t find an outlet for it until we purchased our first house. It needed a lot of work, we could barely pay the mortgage and bills so had to be very creative, re-using, upcycling, visiting reclamation yards, searching for ebay bargains all became the norm and I absolutely loved it.
Cool Barware for the Ultimate Party
19 Dec 2019
Party time is here again as we draw near to Christmas, but my kids don’t need that excuse. Any time can be party time for them, all it needs is one of them to crack open the prosecco and off it goes. It always seems to start with the prosecco, who knows why but it works.
Suffice to say it moves on from there to an array of alcoholic beverages, all requiring their very own cool barware. So, what constitutes cool barware for the ultimate party, and what is the ultimate party anyway? My idea of the ultimate party involves my 4 year old grandson and his 2 year old twin siblings, plus milk and biscuits, of course. Possibly not what you had in mind! But for the true party goers out there, here’s a selection of the coolest barware, plus a few tips to get that party going.
Affordable Art Edit
6 Dec 2019
We all need a revamp now and again to put some fresh new zing into our interiors, and what easier way to do it than with affordable art? So, glam up your walls and brighten up your day with a fun selection of colourful prints that won’t break the bank, but will bring a smile to your face. Think about the space and whether you want a gallery wall with a selection of prints, or keep it simple and showcase one or two prints. Decide on your preferred look and go all out to create a cool vibe that injects that bit of extra chutzpah to light up your walls. From quirky, to mellow, to glam, the choice is yours.
Tropical Interior Colour Palette Inspiration
23 Nov 2019
We Audenza ladies do love a tropical vibe, so Amelia has put together 3 tropical colour schemes, to give you some interior colour palette inspiration, and to see how the different colour palettes affect the look of a room. Green is the mainstay of each design, but with subtle twists that create astonishingly vibrant, but opposed, vibes. From overtly feminine, to full on masculine, to give you the idea of how colour choices change an interior project.
4 Tips for Flower Arranging
8 Nov 2019
I love flowers and foliage everywhere; growing in the garden, on fabrics, on walls, on rugs, and most of all in vases dotted around my home. Looking back on photos of my flower arrangements there are a few I’m not happy with and I’m sure a florist would have something to say about them, but the main thing for me is to enjoy the colours and textures without worrying too much about perfection. So, here are my 4 tips for flower arranging the novice way.
Autumnal Colour Inspiration for your Home
25 Oct 2019
Celebrate the changing season and bring the colours of the outdoors in with our autumnal colour inspiration mood boards and pics. Ochres, greens and russets create a warmth and vibrancy, with a textural scrumptiousness in velvet, wool and fur, for that essential tactile experience. Rejoice as we settle into the delights of autumn and hunker down for the end of the year in a blaze of colour. So, here is our roundup, showcasing the beauty of an autumnal colour palette for your home.
Today’s house tour is an Art Deco beauty, with amazing aqua coloured Crittall style windows, and the icing on the cake – it’s by the seaside! It’s a fabulous and fearless light filled family home, filled with vibrant colour and attention to detail. Natalie lives in Poole, Dorset in an original 1930’s Art Deco home with her husband Mark and their 2 children, Sienna age 8 and Rudy age 7. Although the house is Art Deco, Natalie has chosen to decorate in her own style. A glamorous and decadent style, reminiscent of the Hollywood era, but with an eclectic vibe.
