Articles by Lynne Bramwell

As an avid watcher of home-makeover shows I have noticed a new trend in TV shows. For years the focus has been on getting your home ready to sell and to make it as neutral as possible. Now that people are staying where they are because of the current economic climate the shows are concentrating on “turning your house into a home” and injecting some individuality into it.

I suppose working in a design studio does make you more adventurous in your decorating but our own house has always been full of colour and individuality. One of the bedrooms, which has been a children's bedroom over the years, has actually been decorated no less than five times in the twelve years that we've lived in the house – the quickest makeover being when we stapled animal print material to all the walls and completely transformed the room in one afternoon.