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HERRINGBONE: The pattern for petite places & special spaces

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Interior Designers LOVE it!

“I love herringbone, I LOVE IT,” says Darren Palmer, Interior Designer and judge of The Block Glasshouse about Daz and Dee’s parquetry floor in their study reveal.

Shaynna said the pair had taken a smaller space and used it very well, proving a small space isn’t necessarily a bad space.
“It’s what you do with it that makes it good and they’ve done really, really well,” she said.

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Design Principles – 6 Tension (Series, 6 of 6)

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Read Paulina Bird’s (House of Bird) insights into the 6 Principles of Design and how applying these principles can influence a successful design and create beautiful spaces.  This Six Part Series breaks the design mystery down to its most simple and most easily understood elements – a must for any design enthusiast.

We are all familiar with the term Tension.

It can describe a really bad headache or the stress we feel in a job that needs to be performed quickly.  The words worry, rigidity, conflict and pressure come to mind in describing Tension.  But what is it doing appearing in a Design Blog claiming to be a Design Principle? Read More

Design Principles – 5 Dominance (Series, 5 of 6)

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Read Paulina Bird’s (House of Bird) insights into the 6 Principles of Design and how applying these principles can influence a successful design and create beautiful spaces. This Six Part Series breaks the design mystery down to its most simple and most easily understood elements – a must for any design enthusiast.

Paulina explains Dominance as a Design Principle and it’s ability to create a focal point in a Design. Read More

Design Principles – 4 Stability (Series, 4 of 6)

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Read Paulina Bird’s (House of Bird) insights into the 6 Principles of Design and how applying these principles can influence a successful design and create beautiful spaces.  This Six Part Series breaks the design mystery down to its most simple and most easily understood elements – a must for any design enthusiast.

Sta-bil-i-ty: The state or quality of being stable, especially, resistance to change, deteriorate or displacement. Read More

Design Principles – 3 Movement (Series, 3 of 6)

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Read Paulina Bird’s (House of Bird) insights into the 6 Principles of Design and how applying these principles can influence a successful design and create beautiful spaces.  This Six Part Series breaks the design mystery down to its most simple and most easily understood elements – a must for any design enthusiast.

Movement as a Design Principle simply means a visual trail that the eye follows, be it in bathroom or as a single object such as patterned fabric, furniture or a collection of home wares placed in a room. Read More

Design Principles – 2 Rhythm (Series, 2 of 6)

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Read Paulina Bird’s (House of Bird) insights into the 6 Principles of Design and how applying these principles can influence a successful design and create beautiful spaces.  This Six Part Series breaks the design mystery down to its most simple and most easily understood elements – a must for any design enthusiast.

Continue Paulina Bird’s insight into the world of design and how the Design Principle ‘Rhythm’ is applied. Read More

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