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1 week ago | 
melanielissackinteriors.com | Melanie Lissack
Nobody dreams of spending their weekend scrubbing toilets or cleaning their kitchen; yet, we all love that feeling of walking into a clean, fresh-smelling home. Luckily, getting a spotless house doesn't have to mean that you’ll have to clean all day. Instead, work smarter, not harder. Try a more efficient approach that delivers amazing results in half the time. Here are three top cleaning tips on how to get a spotless house with minimal effort.
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1 week ago | 
melanielissackinteriors.com | Melanie Lissack
If your home is looking a little tired or if you are a bit bored with the decor, you don’t need to do a complete room makeover or a total revamp to freshen it up. Instead, making just a few small updates and doing a couple of improvements can have a positive impact. Here are six quick and easy ways to revive your home in order for you to fall back in love with it. Adding houseplants can turn an empty, bland corner into an interesting area full of detail.
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1 week ago | 
melanielissackinteriors.com | Melanie Lissack
With the spring weather turning out to be glorious and summer just around the corner, you may be looking to elevate your outdoor space and invest in a gorgeous garden bench. Whether you are looking for a heavy-duty metal garden bench that is weatherproof, or one made from more traditional wood, the five following outdoor bench designs from the latest garden furniture collections are full of style, as well as being admired by design experts and interior trendsetters.
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3 weeks ago | 
melanielissackinteriors.com | Melanie Lissack
I’ve been frantically pinning multiple images of dreamy kitchens to my ‘Extension’ folder on Pinterest due to my forthcoming renovation plans. One common theme that I’ve noticed has been a tendency to lean towards a splash of green within a kitchen design. Rather than navigating towards green kitchen cabinets, I’ve actually been looking at splashes of green within the kitchen in a less obvious way.
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4 weeks ago | 
melanielissackinteriors.com | Melanie Lissack
Sponsored Content: This post has kindly been sponsored by Casalgrande Padana. All words, thoughts and opinions belong to Melanie Lissack. There’s been no shortage of the colour green featuring in a variety of the most alluring interior design styles in recent years. Starting with dark and strong jewel-toned emerald greens (which were especially popular within kitchen design), there was then a move to khaki, olive and leafy greens within living spaces when biophilic design trends peaked.
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1 month ago | 
melanielissackinteriors.com | Melanie Lissack
I’ve always found rugs one of the hardest elements of a room to source and get right. As the core base layer of a design scheme, your rug will tie everything in the room together. When choosing the right rug for your living room, kitchen, bedroom, or hallway, there are many aspects to consider: a rug that is too dark or where the pattern is too busy can drag down a space, while a rug that is too plain or too light will do nothing for the room.
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1 month ago | 
melanielissackinteriors.com | Melanie Lissack
Designing a kid's bedroom isn't just about decorating a space for that exact point in time; it's about creating a room that can adapt with them from toddlerhood to teenage life. Kids grow fast and their tastes change rapidly, so it’s important to evaluate what can be updated easily in the future (like paint colours) and what needs to stand the test of time as they get older (such as bedroom furniture). Here are eight things to consider before you start designing a kid-friendly bedroom.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Susan Griffin |Jessica Salter |Lucy Gornall |Melanie Lissack
Victoria Magrath has turned her converted Manchester cotton mill apartment into a stylish and cosy home"This building used to spook me out a little bit because it was so dark," recalls fashion influencer Victoria Magrath as the spring sunshine floods her luxuriously cosy two-bedroom apartment in Manchester.
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1 month ago | 
melanielissackinteriors.com | Melanie Lissack
I am so delighted to say that after waiting ten years to renovate the kitchen/diner area of our period house, plans are now underway to completely transform this space and turn it into an area that elevates our home and works for us as a family. I could also say just having it working full stop would be a great benefit! I recently found out that this kitchen was installed in 1997 - almost thirty years ago - so, as you can imagine, many parts of it are currently unusable.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Jessica Salter |Lucy Gornall |Melanie Lissack |Boudicca Fox-Leonard
This versatile shade goes with anything, and brings a fresh yet warm look to your homeIf your home is crying out for a little spring-inspired refresh, then look to the colour of the season, pistachio, to give it a lift. "As a colour, pistachio is both soothing and sophisticated," says Jason Wilary-Attew, director of home at John Lewis, which got ahead of the curve and chose pistachio as its colour of the spring/summer 25 season, back when everyone else was predicting mocha mousse.
