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Decor Diva: Colour Your World
I am totally fascinated by colour. Try as I may, I could never imagine living in a world that has no colour in it – even if it black or white, it is still colour. 1 Everything we can see has a colour,...
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Colour-Coded Inspiration: Orange
By Marica About.com has excellent descriptions of colour and the feelings and emotion specific colours invokes. This is what they had to say about Orange (I find it quite accurate): “Orange is vibrant,...
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Abigail K Captures Precious Moments
By now you would surely have noticed that we like photography as an art form what with all the photographers we have recently featured. Well here we are again, with yet another talented lady to profile...
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Décor Diva: How To Snuggle Up This Winter
10 Essentials for a lazy winter’s evening… At the moment in time, we are going through our winter season here in SA. Having said that, in Cape Town we are experiencing the most gorgeous warm winter...
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Quick Tip #6: Layer to Create Depth
#6 In order to create depth in a room, you should include various layers of textures, objects and tones. In other words, your floor covering would be one layer, into that you would add the paint...
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Quick Tip #7: A Scatter Cushion No-No
A BIG scatter cushion no-no and one of our pet-peeves… #7 Whether it’s on your bed or on your sofa, never ever arrange scatter cushions at 45 degree angle (aka the dreaded diamond shape) – it looks...
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Décor Dictionary: Voile
Voile: is a soft, sheer, lightweight fabric, usually made of 100% cotton or cotton/synthetic blends. The term derives from French, meaning veil. Available in a range of patterns, colours and...
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It’s A Goal!
It was only a few years ago that I discovered that January is the international goal setting month of the year. Or so it seemed then and still seems this year. Almost all types of business blogs and...
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A Love Affair With Interiors
Tabloid skinny – Read all about it! Read all about it! – The truth is out… about Rose’s love affair. When I set out to write this post, I did not have the content that you will read below in mind. I...
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Colour-Coded Inspiration: Red & Pink
By Marica I clearly remember my mom telling me back in the nineties to never ever wear pink and red together as “those two colour just don’t mix“. It’s true, the nineties (probably the eighties too)...
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Lelanie Slater On Personal Design Style
“For about a year now, I have been following Lelanie Slater’s “of Beauty and Love” blog posts, as well as touching sides with her here and there via email. She is both writer and Interior Designer. As...
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Ask Décor Diva: Ideal Cushion Arrangement?
Raylene recently contacted The Design Tabloid to ask our resident Décor Diva some advice… Raylene asks: “I have two 2-seater neutral sofa’s and 2 wing-back chairs in my living room. I have bought new...
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Ask Décor Diva: Where Do I Start With My Interior Project?
Chris writes: “I am wanting to remodel my flat and I have all these ideas floating in my head about what I want but cant string it all together. Help! How do I know if I am doing the right thing with...
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Before & After: Vintage Radiogram
By Jess Binns of Hector & Bailey It’s with great pleasure to take the reigns on today’s post for the lovely Rose and Marica from The Design Tabloid. I’d love to share with you the latest ‘Found...
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A New Look For Design Monarchy
Most of our loyal blog readers know that when Rose and I are not busy topping up our (and your) inspiration tanks by writing for The Design Tabloid, we are hard at work here at Design Monarchy. We are...
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A Reflection On 2012…
Like we did at the beginning of last year and to ease ourselves back into the blogging groove, we would like to share with you some stats on our blog’s activity in 2012. Here are some interesting...
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Colour-Coded Inspiration: Mint & Coral
By Marica Wow, we haven’t done a Colour-Coded Inspiration in ages – about high time! The following beautiful colour combo has been trending for almost two years now, and we have been dying to use it in...
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10 Dreamy DIY Easter Eggs
I can vaguely remember decorating some Easter eggs in my early pre-school years. I haven’t painted an egg since. It’s a little sad that as we grow older we leave some fun traditions behind. However,...
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Décor Diva: The Secret To A Decadent Boudoir Bedroom
According to Wikipedia a Boudoir is “a lady’s private sitting room or dressing room.” Others have added in the phrase “where she would retire to receive friends.” The term derives from the French verb...
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6 Steps To Creating A Perfect Vignette
An effortless way to add a little professional decorator pizzazz to your home is to create little décor arrangements or vignettes atop bare tables or shelves. Now, as we defined a couple of weeks ago,...
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