Tiles With A Pulse: How To Use Bold Tiles On Floors, Walls, Curves And Splashbacks
Wet Areas, Renovating and New Homes Penelope J. Herbert Wet Areas, Renovating and New Homes Penelope J. Herbert

Tiles With A Pulse: How To Use Bold Tiles On Floors, Walls, Curves And Splashbacks

Stop playing it safe with white subway tiles and start using tiles as architecture, artwork and attitude.

Tiles are where the renovation stops being polite and starts being interesting. Forget “just a floor” or “just a splashback”—tiles are architecture, artwork and attitude rolled into one. In this first installment of five in our finishes series, we’re turning tiles into the main character of your home, not the understudy.

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Why Interior Design Is the Couture of Construction
Renovating and New Homes Penelope J. Herbert Renovating and New Homes Penelope J. Herbert

Why Interior Design Is the Couture of Construction

If couture defines the garment, design defines the home. It’s time to stop treating interior design as decoration and start seeing it as the blueprint for how you’ll live and feel every day. Let’s start with a truth bomb: interior design is not a soft‑furnishings sideshow. It’s the beating heart of every successful build — the couture of construction. Yet time and again, I meet clients who call a designer only after their walls are up, plans stamped, and budgets blown. At that point, I’m the paramedic, not the partner.

This misunderstanding isn’t just unfortunate; it’s expensive, stressful, and limits the potential of what a home could be. Interior design should lead the conversation, because design doesn’t simply make rooms look good — it makes them work beautifully.

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