The bathrooms in this Auckland home are a contrast of dark and light. The rooms dictated their looks says interior designer Nicola Manning of NM Design - the master ensuite was already a light and bright room and the downstairs powder room/laundry was quite dark, so she worked with that instead of against it. [...]
Top Tips for Designing Your Laundry As any family knows, the Laundry is a very busy area of the house and one that you want to make as efficient as possible, to limit the time spent on laundry duties. Questions to ask yourself when preparing to design or have your Laundry designed: Do you [...]
Colour Trend - Pink 15 September 2017 by Nicola Manning Pink, love it or hate it, we are seeing quite a bit of it at the moment in interiors. At the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York (May 2017), we saw a range of pink, moving from blush pink to [...]
The Latest Interior Design Trends 2017 Blog Series Part Five - Accessories 30 June 2017 by Nicola Manning The 29th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) has just been held in New York City from 21-24th May. In the previous four blogs I have highlighted the latest trends in furniture, lighting, colour and textures/finishes. This [...]
The Latest Interior Design Trends 2017 Blog Series Part Four - Finishes and Textures 23 June 2017 by Nicola Manning The 29th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) has just been held in New York City from 21-24th May. In the previous three blogs I have highlighted the latest trends in furniture, lighting and [...]
The Latest Interior Design Trends 2017 Blog Series Part Three - Colour 15 June 2017 by Nicola Manning The 29th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) has just been held in New York City from 21-24th May. In Part One of this blog series I looked at the [...]
The Latest Interior Design Trends 2017 Blog Series Part Two - Lighting 6 June 2017 by Nicola Manning The 29th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) has just been held in New York City from 21-24th May. In Part One of this blog series I looked at the latest furniture trends. [...]
The Latest Interior Design Trends 2017 Blog Series Part One - Furniture 5 June 2017 by Nicola Manning The 29th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) has just been held in New York City from 21-24th May. The ICFF is North America’s platform for global design, mapping the newest frontier of what’s best and what’s [...]
Battle of the Dining Room Part 2 You may remember a Blog I wrote a couple of months ago about “The Battle of the Dining Room” where I was discussing the robust debate between the four male members of my household and myself. I was very keen to use a large [...]
What is Luxury? Last weekend I had the wonderful privilege of staying at Huka Lodge, in Taupo. Whilst surrounded by the luxury and tranquillity of Huka Lodge, I started thinking about “what is luxury?” Luxury will have different meanings for different people. What is luxury in our homes and interior design? Luxury [...]
