
Interior designers sometimes get asked about the hottest colour trends. And this season, we have a confession to make: white is the new black! White interior designs are hip and trendy once again, and in particular those sterile white kitchens are now all the rage. This is particularly true in London, where the dull and gloomy skies can make clients cry out for a touch of bright white interior design freshness.
When you walk into a beautiful white kitchen designed by a top London Interior Designer, what do you feel? Many of us are overwhelmed with all sorts of emotions. We feel carefree and almost as if we are floating on air. The pervasive whiteness brings to mind age-old simplicity, sanitary freshness, contemporary impact, and a roomy, playful outlook. The interior designer will use the white kitchen as a philosophy to evoke a sentiment of purity for food preparation and to empower boundless chef-inspired inspiration.
Many interior design consultancies use white as a fabulous background for the presentation of magical colours and textures. For example, one top trend today is to use deeply varnished wooden joists to contrast with sharply-defined white architectural surrounds. Colourful interior design accents really “pop out” in this context. Alternatively, the quiet pastels of a London autumn can make for a classic and sophisticated interior design scheme.
The newest London kitchens may be white today, but the true home of the white kitchen has got to be Sweden. Just like London, Stockholm has short days and long nights for much of the year. Homeowners naturally crave interior designs that maximise the amount of reflected internal light in these climates. Swedish interior designers will create themes that are inspired by the widespread use of wintertime candles and sconces.
Returning to less northern cities like London, a simple white kitchen works well with dramatic black accents. A very dark or bold interior design element, used rhythmically in the kitchen, creates balance and interest. Contrast in tone and color is the underpinning of what might otherwise be experienced as a ‘simple’ or ‘flat’ kitchen.
Is a white kitchen ‘classic’ in the sense that it can ‘fit’ into any interior design? Certainly not! Understanding design context, and especially the architecture of all the elements, the proportions of color and tone, and a true balance with the surrounding interior spaces, are essential for the presentation of a visual logic, a ‘whole’. Top London interior designers recognise this, and their efforts have made the white kitchen philosophy a real winner today.
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Any ideas on how to explain your graphic designs better?Have you ever had that feeling of How to better explain your design to your clients, so they make less changes or so they prefer your design & not whatever funny ideas they have in their heads.
Well anybody have any tips on How to better explain your design to your clients?
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One idea i'm looking into is the use of NLP to explain our designs so they can be more readily accepted & less changes made. So any NLP experts here can help with some scripts that would be great.

It is masonry arc. Good design with among strength. Offcourse steel or wood supports can be as well…
i’m glad kevin expresses his opinion on the houses, not just always saying he loves everything… there are a lot of things i like and dislike about this building, and i don’t think it looks very personal to the family, however, what i do love about it is that recycled glass floor!
polka dots…..make it connecting puzzle pieces….sun moon stars….flowers…..shapes….smiley faces……zig-zag……diagonal stripes….rainbows….hearts….peace signs…caption bubble with a saying/joke/or "had to be there" statement…….i could go on & on …need more contact me!…good luck!
Absolutely, as long as you stay true to your deliberately difficult theme. Troublesome will be the distinctly variant designs, putting Asia and India together, but your luck come from both cultures' dominant colors. Sounds like you've discovered this already.
Put your spare Asian designs, in throw pillows for instance, alternating with those busier, from India. Keep your drapes a solid neutral, with luck, a common neutral taken from both. Use a lot of navy or black here and there.
Net examples, try West Elm for general inspiration and extravagant antiques layouts. Can't try Pier One. They've gone offline.
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that is hilarious! “small hands”,haha!
well ive done it a couple of times, its awesome to have your custom design on, basically u need to make your design first, there are a lot of softwares like photoshop, coreldraw and free hand, once you have made it u need to give em a jpg file or any other format which can b easily done through these softwares. jst get the dimensions ryte of wot u need to make.
Great looking house, everyone has such individual taste, i would love to have my own design built one day. Would be nice if people would upload the full ep though:S
elegant in it’s simplicity and empathy towards it’s surroundings. i love this house & love grand designs. although have you ever noticed how small kevin mcleod’s hands are? never trust a man with small hands!
Stickers, decals and/or paint using templates.
I have used this site: http://www.create-your-tattoo.com/ several times now. It's a one time year or lifetime payment and totally worth it! They even have a money back guarantee. They have 1000's of designs and you can even combine designs and the galleries are amazing. Check it out!
say it with pictures, rough drafts, sketches, mock ups. Money talks as well, if you can convey to them that the utilization of your ideas will save them money in the long run… Many clients already have a very firm idea of what they want. I work in printing and can tell you that the customer does not always want the possible. There are a lot of things that printers find difficult and will charge a ton of extra $ and there are certain things that have to be fought by the printer because the client wont budge. Sometimes we just have to realize that the customer wants what they want and no amount of cajoling, insisting, or anything else can change that fool head…..good luck. I cannot tell you how many art peices I have done fo rpeople and have to make change after change after change…as long as we get paid, right!
Lovely house but personally I don’t think it’s very “eco” building new homes on green land all the time, and evdery one seems to be a huge home for just 2 people!!! Ours is a conversion of a small house that was a falling down eyesore – we have to stop building new and start converting + live in smaller spaces.
great idea!
For an invitation? Well when my family was more affluent, we never used stationary for invitations. Once my mother used personalized cakes that read all of the information for her party on them and had them hand-delivered to 2000 party guests.
Honestly, unless this is for a story or something, don't try and be a poser. It's not cool. Be yourself and use whatever types of stationary you think is the best.
-Catherine
i love that the electric company owes them money, take that corperations!
Rule of thumb….
Discuss your rates before starting a project so you both are clear on what to expect.
You have to look at your time you spent on the project, was it complicated, was it something you put together in 20mins and should charge a min of 1 hour, or charge by the project. Revisions included, lot s of things to get fine tuned when freelance.
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