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Trending on Instagram amongst Design Lovers – #floorcore

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For the love of beautiful floors (or feet if you’re into that sort of thing)!

Did you know the three top hash tagged words on Instagram is #love, #instagood and #me and the majority of Instagrammer’s use no image filters?  True – but that is neither here nor there, however interesting facts for your next trivia night.

We all know about selfies (thanks to Gen Y) but the current Instagram sensation is #floorcore.  In fact you can search this hash tag on most social media platforms.  So what is it you say?  Well it’s right up our alley!

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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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Bringing Beautiful Tiles to Geelong as Fast As Possible

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TILE junket fills it’s shelves with beautiful tiles

Last year we set for ourselves a serious challenge: find the most beautiful tiles in Australia and bring them to Geelong.  Why?  We were tired of the rubbish that suppliers were offering.  We were disappointed with the bland & boring products on offer when we knew that the world is full of amazing products.  We were tired of being dictated to by suppliers.  We were tired of Geelong being treated like a 3rd rate location.  You wanted more, we could see it on your face when you browsed through our showroom.

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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

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