Category Archives: Aspley Styleboard

Style at Home: Simplicity of design in the kitchen

 

Customise your kitchen to include practical appliances that help bring your family together.

We’ve partnered with Stylist Briar Stanley, to help you discover how you can create your own style in the kitchen.

 

 

Find amazing pieces for your dining room at Freedom, Howards Storage World, Kitchen Connection and PillowTalk – all now open at Aspley Homemaker City.

Visit us today.

Style at Home: Mixing Textures

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Mixing textures in your spaces can create the right mood.

We’ve partnered with Stylist Briar Stanley, to help you find yours.

 

Find amazing pieces for your dining room at Beds N Dreams, Bedshed, Forty Winks, Freedom, PillowTalk, Recline Furniture, Sheridan Factory Outlet, Sleeping Giant and Snooze – all now open at Aspley Homemaker City. Visit us today.

 

Nordic style apartment dining room

 

Get the Look: Feature Appliances

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Are you wondering how to bring your kitchen to life and bring in your own style?

There is such an amazing range of appliances for the kitchen these days, that you can treat key pieces like a piece of furniture in your home.

We’ve partnered with Stylist Briar Stanley, to help you find out how.

 

 

Find amazing pieces for your kitchen at Freedom, Howards Storage World, Kitchen Connection and PillowTalk – all now open at Aspley Homemaker City. Visit us today.

 

Creating space in small bedrooms

Small bedrooms can have a big impact with the right design and use of space. Whether you opt for the illusion of space or embrace what you have, there are endless ways to make a small space livable and chic.

Choose the right colours

Colours can make a world of difference to the look of a small bedroom. The darker the paint on the walls, the heavier the atmosphere and the more enclosed the room looks. Select light coloured paints, preferably pastel shades to make the room look open, light, and airy. Or you could look at light coloured wallpaper with small light patterns or designs.

Stay Minimal

All rooms tend to collect junk and the bedroom is the worst of them. Take a close look at your small bedroom. What are the non-essential things in it? Remove them all and see how much more space you suddenly have.

It may not be floor space, but even having an open dresser top or uncluttered bedside table can make the room seem more open.

Creative storage

Optimise your space with creative thinking and creative storage from Howards Storage.

There is space under the bed and at the bottom of the closet that often is lying idle. The space under the beds is ideal for exercise equipment or things that are needed just once on a day. To make access even easier keep your old shoe boxes to use as storage so they can be easily retrieved. High mounted (but not unreachable) shelves on the walls will also free up space below giving the room a more clean and open look.

Lighting

Lighting plays an important role in how a room looks. This does not mean that brighter is better – a bedroom lit up like a Vegas casino is not a place that you will be comfortable in. But keeping the lighting reasonably bright and using pendant lights or standing lights to focus the lighting ensures that there are no areas that are in shadow or sudden changes from bright areas to darker ones will give the room a feeling of being more open. Andrews Light Up can help with providing the perfect solution to get the lighting right the first time.

Custom Bedding

Investing in custom bedding to suit the size and style of the room. This will allow you to optimise space while complimenting the look and feel of the room.

Snooze in Aspley offers custom beds with nifty storage solutions and decorative bed heads to suit any style!

However, if you want more options to choose your furniture, you can go to our centre and check out all of our furniture stores in Aspley!

4 tips to a well-dressed bed

Looking to the achieve that hotel feel right at home? Get started with these 4 tips:

Vary the sizes, colours and textures of decorative pillows

Different sizes and colours provide interest and variation. To achieve that hotel feel, go all out with layers of European pillows, multiple standard pillows and at least three decorative cushions to finish it off. The result is dramatic, plush and polished.

Play with colour and patterns for a more casual look

Simple, clean white bedding can be offset with a highly patterned coverlet for an artistic feel. Pillow Talk in Aspley has a beautiful new range of quilt cover sets and throws this Autumn to help add colour to the bedroom.

Or, if you want to spend some day in Alexandria Sydney, the Alexandria Home Centre has a lot of stores for you, as Decorug, Brescia Furniture and more.

Invest in good sheets

The easiest way to snazz up your bedroom is to outfit your bed with a gorgeous set of sheets. To keep the hotel room look, go for a crisp, white set of sheets that are at least 1000 thread count.

Hotel rooms tend to use sateen or percale sheets, but you should choose the material that feels most comfortable to you. The experts at Sheridan Factory Outlet will be able to help you put together the perfect set to fit any look.

Consider the lighting

You’ll notice that almost all hotel rooms have lamps or sconces on either side of the bed. This always helps pull the room together visually and also allows you to turn off the overhead light and create a warm and cozy mood in your space. Set the mood with Andrews Light Up to finish off the look.

3 chic bathroom storage solutions

The bathroom is one of the most high traffic areas in any home. It’s where we go to prepare to take on the day, and it’s where we head to wash up and decompress when the day is done.

Add a Storage Cart

What a difference a storage cart can make. If you’re like so many who are short on cabinet storage, take matters into your own hands. Howards Storage offer a large range of storage solutions especially designed for the bathroom. Take it one step further and roll your towels and add a succulent or two, and you’ll feel like you’re in a spa each and every day.

Organise with draw dividers

If you’re like the so many of us who have bathroom drawers overflowing with products, miscellaneous items, and general chaos then pick up some draw dividers from Howards Storage and finished off the look with well organised draws which will make the morning rush much more satisfying.

Get creative with mason jars

When it comes to DIY organisation, the wonders of the mason jar know no bounds! Present your glosses, cotton balls, and tiny toiletries in the cutest way imaginable by taking advantage of this sweet idea. All it takes is a little paint, glue, and a few animal toppers.