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Styling with Confidence (even if you’re not!)
Styling your home doesn’t have to be stressful. Discover how we help you make confident choices and create a space that feels truly yours. With expert guidance, you can avoid costly mistakes and enjoy a home that works beautifully for your lifestyle.

Inside Out Tips: Using botanical patterns in interior design without going overboard
Spring is the season to bring the beauty of nature indoors. From cushions and wallpaper to subtle accents, style floral and botanical patterns in a way that feels fresh, modern and elegant. Enjoy florals without going overboard!

A Day in the Life of a Colour Consultant: What really happens
Ready to move beyond beige? Sydney interior designer Jennifer French shares how a colour consultation creates harmony, flow, and confidence in your home with tailored palettes that last.

Mood by Design: How Colour Shapes the Way You Feel at Home
Colour has a powerful impact on how you feel in your home. Sydney interior designer Jennifer French from Inside Out Colour & Design explains how thoughtful colour choices can influence mood, enhance wellbeing, and bring harmony to your space. Ready to find your perfect palette? Let’s chat about a colour consultation.

Winter Layers: Cosy textures & colours to hibernate in style
Style your Australian home for winter with expert interior design tips from Sydney designer Jennifer French. Add cosy textures, warm colour palettes, soft furnishings, and seasonal layers to create a welcoming and stylish space.

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.

Clever Storage
A place for everything and everything in it’s place. Finding storage solutions for your home in every room.

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?


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.


Employing a Painter
So what exactly does a painter do when you hire them to transform your home?




The Perfect Guest Bedroom
How to decorate your guest bedroom. Some useful tips on what to include to ensure your guests are comfortable.