Is This New A Sci-Fi Movie? Orb, is this a new sci-fi movie. No. Orb is a great new material created by Biohm in the United Kingdom. This sustainable material is made from naturally bound organic waste, comprising food and agricultural waste. According to Biohm, ...
Lighting for Health & Wellbeing, Part 2 What is lighting? Lighting can comprise artificial light, manmade lamps, or natural light, daylight. It is used within interior and architectural design to light a space; create the proposed ambience for a space; and to illuminate key ...
Materials in Design. We all have the right to live and work in healthy, sustainable and animal friendly spaces, but what if the materials we are selecting are not good for our health or planet health? It is recognised, that the inside air quality of the buildings we live and work in may be ...
Let’s get Plastered, Part 2 Clay Plaster Wall Covering. Like Shukkui plaster, identified in part 1 of this 2-part series on ‘Let’s get Plastered’, clay plaster has been used in interior design for many years. When I think about clay, I automatically think ...
Japanese Lime Wall Covering Sustainable Interior Design Let’s get plastered, nope I’m not talking about alcohol but refer to the type that can be used to adorn our walls and ceilings. How many of you, like myself, have spent many hours walking around DIY stores looking at paint ...
Sustainable Biophilic Design Are you captivated by nature, its tranquillity, its serenity? How you feel when you are walking through a forest or sat watching the waves break on the shoreline? Does it create a feeling of being at peace with yourself, forgetting everyday stresses, which you are ...
Sustainable Wallpaper & Sustainable Wallpaper Adhesive Decorative wall coverings were first introduced into interior design by the Chinese in 200 B.C and initially, comprised rice paper. Nowadays, wallpapers are available in a number of different types and styles from non-woven wallpaper ...
Interior Design Our living and working spaces subconsciously affect us both physically and psychologically? Promoting wellbeing by designing healthy spaces, which will nurture the mind and body, requires us to consider some key questions at the start of a design project. For instance, ...
How much water you actually use when taking a five-minute shower? 10 litres a minute? That's almost 50 litres for 5 minutes.
Why Mushrooms Taking the Design Industry by Storm Sustainable Interior Design Every time I think of mushrooms, it reminds me of a memory of Florence, Italy: sitting in a quaint Florentine restaurant, on the fringes of a sunny piazza, eating a delicious plate of mushroom ...
With more and more of us wanting to improve the environment we live in, creating spaces, which are healthy and promote our mental and physical wellbeing has never been more important than it is today. Spaces can make us feel happy and relaxed. Life can sometimes make you feel like ...
A few years ago, I attended ‘The Japanese House Architectural and Life After 1945’ exhibition at the Barbican Centre, London. A very interesting exhibition, identifying how the Japanese design small living spaces. For people living in cities, this is the norm due to cost or personal ...