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  • The Most Popular Interior Wall colours for Your Home

The Most Popular Interior Wall colours for Your Home

April 28th, 2023|

Choosing the right paint colour for your home's interior walls can have a significant impact on the overall ambiance and mood of your living space. While personal taste plays a key role in selecting [...]

  • Limewash and whitewash on exterior walls

What is Limewash and where can I use it?

February 15th, 2023|

We have a great selection of breathable and natural lime paints, suitable for traditional or heritage buildings, lime plasters and lime renders. Below, we have a nice detailed to guide to the use [...]

  • Energy Efficient Home Design & Top Tricks

Upgrading to an Energy Efficient Home

January 8th, 2021|

The concept of energy efficiency has been around for quite a few decades now, but it has only recently caught momentum. With global warming and depletion of our natural resources, we have become acutely aware [...]

  • Sugar Soap - Do I need sugar soap

What is sugar soap and do I need to use it?

January 8th, 2021|

Preparation is key for a good surface - Can Sugar soap actually help? TL;DR Just use a natural sugar soap alternative like this one and skip the nasty chemicals in 'normal' sugar soap! As [...]

  • Eco Friendly Jargon

Confused about the Eco-Friendly Terminology and Jargon?

August 14th, 2020|

Over time, the world has become increasingly more conscious of a need to protect and preserve the environment. People are more environment-conscious now than they have ever been before. With this awareness, several new [...]

  • What is spray foam insulation for the home and is it worth it

What is spray foam insulation for the home and is it worth it?

July 16th, 2020|

The importance of home insulation cannot be understated. Having your home insulated is a great way to increase the energy efficiency of the household, decrease the electricity bill, and basically create a comfortable living [...]

What’s Driving the Sustainable Interior Design Movement?

August 3rd, 2016|

Sustainable interior design has come a long way. From being exclusively the preserve of the counter-culture it has become part of the mainstream, with sustainable practices benefiting from an extra dash of zeitgeist-grabbing cool.But despite [...]

  • Eco Green Home Architecture

Green Futures: Eco Friendly Architecture Grows Up

March 30th, 2016|

Modern buildings have a bad reputation, and it's easy to see why. From the brutalist concrete shells of the 1960s to the materialist excess of the 1980s, right up to the wave of cheap, [...]

  • Straw Bale House Build

Straw Bale House Build: The Bricks of the Future?

March 16th, 2016|

When most of us hear the idea of a house made of straw, the first thing that comes to mind is the tale of the Three Little Pigs. But with straw now being recognised as [...]

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