Kids bedrooms are usually the smallest room in the home, which can come with some challenges. You want to maximise the storage space because of the never ending toys, but the room is small, which leaves you wondering how you are going to fit everything in while still creating a cool and fun bedroom your child will love.

With some clever storage ideas, multifunctional furniture, interesting paint techniques, and much more, you can make the most of every inch of space in your kid's small bedroom. We’ve shared 10 of our top tips to help you design your kid's small bedroom.

Families come in all shapes and sizes, and no family is the same, just like our homes. When designing for our customers, we create a room that works for the whole family and that is truly bespoke to them. Living rooms are the most common spaces we design for families, they are one of the rooms in the home that everyone uses.

After years of experience when it comes to designing living rooms for families, we wanted to share our expert interior design tips with you.

We love to discover and find new brands that we can use in our design schemes. We have done a roundup of five kids interior brands you need to know about to create a beautiful, fun, and interesting kids bedroom that you all will love!

We’ve designed a fair few nurseries at The Living House now, all with parents wanting the same thing - a beautiful nursery without costing the earth. We’ve put together our top interior design tips to help you decorate your nursery on a budget.

I don’t know about you, but for me, January always feels quite bleak with the cold and wet weather and, of course, the dark evenings. If I’m out and about for the day, I can’t wait to get home to hibernate and be all cosy! Once in and settled by this, I mean instantly changing into my comfy pyjamas and oodie, all I want to do is chill out and relax in my living room. In the winter, you start to look around your living room and think, how could I make this space cosy?!

Well, if this is exactly what you’re thinking, the good news is that I have shared 5 tips to make your living room feel like a cosy haven!

We’ve shared with you our favourite curve and arch pieces that we are loving right now. Whether you want to splash out and invest in the trend or start with smaller pieces, we have found both!

A box bedroom. Nearly all of us have one but how do we design them to be practical yet beautiful? Whether your box room is a bedroom, nursery, home office or walk-in wardrobe, they can be tricky little spaces to design and get right. We’ve shared our expert design tips and knowledge to help you unlock your box bedrooms full potential.

Wow, 2024 already! We’re back with our first blog of the year, and it, of course, had to be about interior trends for 2024. There are some exciting changes coming to the interior world, from colour palettes to furniture, and we can’t wait to explore and incorporate the new trends into our design schemes this year. 2024 is about finally saying goodbye to grey and welcoming warm earthy colours to give your home that warm and cosy feel that we all desire. We’ve shared with you six interior trends we think will be big in 2024.

Choosing a paint colour for your living room can feel overwhelming, because there are so many different decisions you need to make. Your living room is most likely one of the main hubs in your home, a place you enjoy as a family and to entertain guests, therefore, you want to get it right. We have shared our expert paint ideas and tips that you can use for your living room.

In this week's blog, I am going to go through some tips and advice I have learned along the way when designing home offices and guest bedrooms that need to work for the everyday, for the odd occasion, and for the future too - not much to ask?!

White paint is the timeless, classic choice for your home, but choosing the right shade can be tricky!

With so many shades to choose from, where do you start? And how do you make sure you don’t end up with a cold, characterless white box? It’s a question we often get asked - “What is the best white paint colour to use?” - and so we have put together our tried and tested favourites, along with some do’s and don’ts to help you get it right!

A north facing room has a pretty bad reputation - cold, gloomy and a bit dismal. No matter how large the windows are, the room will lack sunlight. Not the best start! However, all is not lost. Your cold dark room doesn’t have to stay that way. Understanding the light you do have can help you choose the right paint colours to cosy it up and make it an inviting space.

Planning an extension or a renovation project can bring up so many mixed emotions - it’s exciting and can lead to your dream home, but it can also feel overwhelming with so many decisions to make and such pressure to get it right!

We’ve shared with you our interior expert tips to nail your living room alcoves and make them work in your living room.

We’ve all seen the beautiful pictures on Pinterest of a room centered around the fireplace. It provides character and symmetry - and of course is amazing at Christmas time. It’s the all important focal point that designers talk about, and the starting point for the design and layout of the whole room.

Adding colour to our homes is becoming increasingly popular, as we are seeing with our customers' choices. Using colour in your home can really add personality and using softer shades is a gentle way to add colour - and less scary if you’re more used to a neutral colour palette.

At The Living House, we have to admit we are HUGE rug fans. Rugs feature in almost all of our design schemes. When used in the right way, a rug makes your living room feel complete, cosy and it brings it all together beautifully. But it can be tricky to know how to choose a rug and even harder to find THE rug that’s going to work perfectly in your own living room.

An L shaped room is a tricky space. It’s not easily designed with awkward angles, dark corners and narrow spaces. Not to mention various doors and access points to consider. It can be hard to find the balance between keeping it open but still feeling like it’s a cohesive space. Whether the space is big or small it can be a challenge - but we can help you work with what you’ve got and make the most of your L shaped room.

In this week's blog, we’re sharing with you our customers' garage to home office transformation. With our help, Emma has transformed her cold and unused garage into an inviting and cosy home office that is completely personal to her. It is now a beautiful office space, the envy of all on those work video calls! And, amazingly, the total design spend was only £2,800.

For most of us, the biggest challenge with curtains is how to hang them. We often see the same mistakes made over and over, and they are easy to avoid.