You may think that the big furniture companies and interior designers pay little attention to teenagers when it comes to bedroom design but this is actually far from the truth. For although teenagers don`t have a great deal of spending power (and even if they did you suspect they wouldn`t spend it on bedroom funiture) they do hold a great deal of sway when it comes to their parents choosing what to buy.

Adolescent Furniture Lines Some of the larger companies actually run adolescent furniture lines and with great...

When you are designing your kitchen, or looking for some advice on designing a new kitchen, there are a few key areas that you should be thinking about so you can hopefully incorporate them into your own kitchen. Here are some of these key points:

Kitchen Design Practical Thoughts What sort of food are you looking to produce in your kitchen?...

We should all be doing as much as we can to be environmentally friendly as we can all now see the damage we have already done to the planet. We have been merrily polluting the oceans and the air we breathe, using up the earths finite fossil fuels and clogging the place up with non degradable products such as plastic bags. So today we thought we would share with you some ideas on how to be as green as possible in the kitchen area, so here goes:

Everthing`s Gone Green In The Kitchen Paper towels are made from trees and are such a...

Recent research has shown that white is now the most popular colour for a child`s bedroom, leaving the traditional pink and blue colours well behind. This is probably no surprise as the overall trend is for much more neutral colours than before, leaving more room to add dashes of colour with the accessories in the room.

White The Dominant Colour The research found that of all the parents who participated in the...

Hello and welcome to our blog here at The Design Studio. Today we thought we would share with you some of the latest design trends for the kitchen which are making big waves at present and that we think are pretty cool too. So without further ado here we go:

5 Of The Latest Kitchen Trends Monochrome in the kitchen has been pretty popular over the...

Hello and welcome to our blog here at The Design Studio in Portadown, Co Armagh. Today in our blog we thought it was about time we did some promotion of our services! We probably don`t promote our services enough and so we thought we would put this right today and give you a rundown on why you should be using our services for all your kitchen and bedroom design and installation requirements.

Design & Installation Services So as you can see we are based in Portadown and we...

We read a very interesting article in the Independent the other day which was looking at `The Top Interior Design Trends For Millennials` and there were some that concerned the kitchen and bedroom areas which we thought would be good to share with you.

So without further ado here are some snippets from the article below, however if you...

Hello and welcome to our blog here at The Design Studio in Tandragee, Portadown. As it is just 4 days away from the big day we would like to take this opportunity to wish all our customers and blog readers a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year!

Opening Times Over The Festive Period We would also like to tell you what our opening...

Hello and welcome to our blog here at The Design Studio, the premier kitchen and bedroom designers in Co Armagh. We hope you have had a fantastic year so far and that you are looking forward to 2018. And maybe next year would be a good time to transform your kitchen?

A New Kitchen For 2018 If your kitchen at present is beginning to look a little...

For most of us we want to make our children`s bedrooms a fun and colourful place for them to hang out and relax in, but still keep them looking cool and stylish. You want them to be both fun and functional, a room they can really enjoy being in but also be somewhere they can work when they need to.

It is not an easy task ensuring that their bedroom fits in aesthetically with the...

I read a fascinating article the other day in which 8 architects and designers looked into the future to imagine what kitchens will look like a few years down the line. They certainly had some very interesting ideas which in some cases may come to fruition not too far into the future.

Interesting Kitchen Designs For The Future Some of the design ideas for kitchens are more outlandish...

It is amazing how just a few simple changes can transform a bedroom from being dreary and tired looking to warm, comfortable and relaxing. With this in mind here are 10 very simple decorating or design tips that can give your bedroom a real lift.

10 Ways To Transform Your Bedroom One tip is to change the colour to blue, and...

When designing a kitchen function is just as important as form when fitting all the parts together. You want to ensure that your kitchen will be ultra efficient for you and a fully functioning area of the home.

Aesthetically Pleasing & Practical Kitchens We know this is a point that we have banged on...

Hello and welcome to our blog once again here at The Design Studio in Portadown. Today in our blog, as we are right in the middle of summer, we are looking at how many families are looking to further merge their kitchens and gardens together so that the garden is like an extension of their kitchen.

Dining & Cooking Outdoors Here in the UK, in the summer months we spend a lot...

Welcome to our blog here at The Design Studio in Portadown. Today we thought we would share with you 3 popular kitchen design ideas for you to ruminate over. These ideas are proving very popular at this present moment in time and for good reason as they can all be very effective and bring a lot to your kitchen. So without further ado here we go.

Great Kitchen Design Ideas The first new kitchen idea is to use tiles to bring a...

Hello and welcome to The Design Studio blog. The Design Studio is based in Portadown, Co Armagh, and offers bespoke kitchen and bedroom design services to its clients. We do the whole job from designing to creating to installing your new kitchen or bedroom.

The Latest Kitchen Trends In 2017 Today we want to share some content we read the...

Hello and welcome to our blog here at The Design Studio in Portadown, Co Armagh. Today in our blog post we are ruminating over the huge changes in attitude towards the kitchen and how this has changed the dynamic of our homes.

From Functional Place To Hub Of The House Once not so long ago, the kitchen was...

Hello and welcome to another blog post here at The Design Studio, the kitchen and bedroom design company in Portadown who do all the work for you, from designing, to creating, to fitting. Today in our blog we are looking at some tips on what lighting to use in your kitchen and how to set lighting up to get the best effects.

There was a very good article on this very subject in The Telegraph only last...

Hello and welcome to the last blog post of the year from The Design Studio in Tandragee, Co Armagh. 2016 seems to have absolutely flown as we have been so busy and here`s to 2017 being even busier! If you are not aware and have just come across our blog at The Design Studio we design and fit both kitchens and bedrooms for our customers in Armagh and right across Northern Ireland.

All we want to do today though is wish our customers and all our blog...

Hello and welcome to another blog post here at The Design Studio, based in Portadown, Co Armagh, the place to come for all your kitchen and bedroom renovations and fittings. We have news that the metal copper is very much making a comeback in the kitchen as well as in the financial markets where it has risen rapidly over the last 12 months. It is especially popular in the more trendy bars and restaurants where there is a distinct move away from synthetic materials towards organic ones such as copper.

Max Spenser-Morris, the director of kitchen design company Design Republic said on the popularity of...