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The Living Room Reset: Style, Comfort, and Function Combined
Ready to give your living room a fresh new feel? In this post, Jennifer French from Inside Out Colour & Design shares how to bring style, comfort and function together to create a space that truly suits your lifestyle.
5 Common Decorating Mistakes and How We Help You Avoid Them
Avoid Costly Decorating Mistakes with Expert Interior Design Advice
Decorating your Sydney home can be exciting - but without a plan, it's easy to make choices you'll regret. From mismatched furniture to clashing colours, this blog highlights five common design mistakes and how Inside Out Colour and Design helps you avoid them. Whether you're refreshing a single room or styling your entire home, find out how a professional consultation can make all the difference.
Inside the Trends: What’s hot in 2025 interiors (and what’s not)
Discover the top interior design trends for 2025 in Australia. From warm minimalism and bold colours to sustainable materials and smart home tech, explore what’s hot (and what’s not) - and how to make these trends work for your unique space. Designed for Australian homes, with insights from Sydney interior designer Jennifer French of Inside Out Colour & Design.
Creating Warmth Without the Heater: Styling Tips for a Cosy Winter Home
Looking to create a cosy winter home without relying on the heater?
This guide shares practical styling tips to help you warm up your interiors using colour, texture, lighting, and natural elements. Perfect for Sydney homes - from federation-style terraces to modern apartments - these ideas will help you design a space that feels warm, welcoming, and stylish all winter long.
Book a colour consultation to discover your perfect winter palette and add warmth through tone, texture, and thoughtful layering.
Which Window Coverings Will I Choose?
Window coverings come in all shapes, sizes, colours and budgets, but like all things, there are just so many choices and it really depends on the homeowners as to what they like and what function the rooms will have. The style of the house and décor will also dictate the window coverings that suit.
However I do have a couple of guidelines that make choosing a little easier.
Choosing the Perfect Sofa
Like most things today, there are just so many choices when it comes to sofas. Finding one that suits the purpose can be a slow, time consuming task. However, the sofa in the family living room could be THE most used piece of furniture in the entire home so getting it right is paramount.
Clever Storage
A place for everything and everything in it’s place. Finding storage solutions for your home in every room.
Choosing Paint
There are so many options when it comes to choosing paint and not just the colour. We look at a number of options suitable for your family home.
Top Three Tips For Decorating when you have Pets
Three main things to consider when decorating your home if you own pets.
Which white is right
Selecting white paint isn’t as straightforward as it may seem. White is not white and you need to consider the undertones before making any selection.
To Paint or Not To Paint
Californian Bungalows and Federation Homes are usually identified by dark timber detailing. Should this be painted or kept?
Custom Made Sofas
The biggest piece of furniture you will probably buy for your living room is your sofa. It’s usually the piece I advise clients to select first. There are so many things to consider when purchasing a sofa that it can sometimes be overwhelming.
Your Harmonious Environment
Trying to work out your style and how best to decorate your home can be just as confusing as actually decorating. Our homes are our haven away from life so asking a few questions before you start is a good way to create the perfect space for you.
Bathrooms, bathrooms and more bathrooms
Things to consider when renovating or building a bathroom. The list is loooooong.
Like all renovations, the end user must be kept in mind when designing a new bathroom. There’s products to suit every taste, age, and size. Freestanding baths or built-ins, back to wall toilet suites or wall hung hidden cisterns, vessel basins or undermounts or something in-between, wall taps, mixers, and spouts, double showers or single, fixed or hand held. The options are endless.
Californian Bungalows in Australia
How to renovate this iconic period home for today’s lifestyle.
Look Up!
Your ceilings don’t have to be white. Explore some other ways to make the ceiling a feature and when you should and shouldn’t.
I love when the ceiling has been considered as another plane to decorate and this can be especially important in hairdressers’, dentists’ and beauticians’ rooms. We are seeing the line between commercial and residential decor blurring. Who doesn’t want to transport that spa bathroom in Phuket and plant it into their suburban bathroom in Sydney?
Creative Colours
A new Creative Space for Warringah council deserved thoughtful and colourful design and selections. And it was a finalist in the Dulux Colour Awards.
Employing a Painter
So what exactly does a painter do when you hire them to transform your home?