All posts by Ally Interiors
Tips for interior renovation projects...
While it sounds exciting to purchase a property to renovate, television programs would make you believe that people will spend significantly over their set budget. Well, maybe on their first property.
Fixtures and Fittings – it’s all in the detail...
Whether a developer, CGI artist, architect, landlord or owner occupier, attention to detail is important.
It is easy enough to include a Le Corbusier chaise longue and portray an illusion of...
Living in a Rented Property...
The biggest problem for tenants is trying to make a rented property feel like home. You want them to avoid painting the walls purple and blue; but whether they are renting for 3 months, a year or...
Rental Decorating Tips...
Know your market. Are you targeting students, couples, professional singles, holiday or executive renters? What level of return are you anticipating? Each of these markets will require a slightly...
Communal Areas of Apartments...
We have all seen the dreaded coir carpet that has shrunk around the edges in trendy apartment blocks. The concrete planters that were bound to fail, the dreary, minimal halls crying out to be broken...
Stand Out in Rental Market...
If you have purchased a property “off plan”, and intend to let it out, the chances are that so have many others.
Or maybe you have had your property for a number of years and have often found...
Buying a New Property...
Having worked for about 20 years with new home builders, there are some things you should know.
NEVER be pressured into moving in by their end of year or half year- everyone from sales to plumbers...
Winter’s a-Coming...
We’ve had our Indian Summer and weren’t some of the sunsets amazing! Now apparently because the berries were on a certain shrub over August , we are in for a hard and cold winter. I...
Is Decorex Losing Its Voice?
Decorex has always been considered the best of the Design Shows. They have a reputation for finding and steering new talent forward, it’s innovative, cutting edge and full of great ideas- they...
Paint It Red...
A recent report from B&Q suggested that red was the most popular colour choice in the paint stakes. They, like me, will attribute that to a feature wall colour in homes. The report also suggested...