The Little Interior Design Blog
Nothing inspires me than a good story and a majestic home. (Inass m.)
Nothing inspires me more than a majestic home and a good story. My last post, titled “Topkapi Palace: How Women Exercised Power In An Age Of Absolute Male Dominance”, falls perfectly within these lines. Topkapi harem, with its unique architecture, has inspired today’s post: a modern kitchen concept with Ottoman influences...
How many of us run home-based businesses or need to catch-up on tight deadlines at home? When this is done in small apartments, it is often quite the task to seemingly integrate an office into a limited space...
I have put together some of the most important guidelines to help you decorate your apartment...
I remember when I moved into a relatively small apartment and was faced with the challenge of making it feel like home. I wanted to make the place seem bigger and brighter without making any structural transformations...
During my recent visit to the Paris Maisons et Objet last September, it was clearly evident that gold accents were still a hot trend across all categories of interior design...
While La Païva was often described as an overly ambitious upstart, excessive in her need for material goods and uncouth in her way of showing her fortune and possessions, I’d rather explore the reasons that might have led her to adopt certain behavior and what really fueled that determined ambition and drove her to build her extravagant Hôtel Particulier. She was, after all, a courtesan...
Traditional Bohemian styles in interior design might not be for everyone, myself included. I have never related to the unpredictable and heavy combination of colors, textures and patterns that is linked to Boho decor. I found it too rustic, “messy” and “unorganized” for my taste (I am on the verge of being OCD so the whole style never really worked for me)...
