Interior Design with Margaret Rose

This podcast series aims to help give you inspiration to make your home a haven of colour, smells and functionality so that you can get on with living your best life.

In this final segment of staging your home, Margaret Rose chats about decluttering your kitchen.

"If your garden is messy it will talk about how you conduct your home, neatly manicured garden says a lot about your home…" - Margaret Rose Interiors

BALWIN properties believe it's essential to stage their show apartments as it shows their clients how to utilize the space available to them.

Today's tip comes from Bernie of Remax Hillcrest; When putting your home on the market for sale, I cannot overemphasize that staging you home is very important. Listen to these tips about decluttering your home.

When staging your home, the objective is to have potential buyers walk in and envision the property as their home. Listen to these tips from Magaret Rose Interiors.

In today's episode, Mags lets you know why Margaret Rose Interiors was created and what the company stands for.

Mags discusses taking a second to include the colour of our pool into the overall design of your home.

Remember that it's not just a pillow that you are selecting! The ideal pillow will take care of your posture, neck and spine.

Let's look into what thread count means and help you make the right decision the next time you purchase even if you have to stretch an extra penny more to get that hotel holiday feel

Changing a room in your home gives you all a fresh new start, each week Interior design with Margaret rose gives ideas and tips to give your home a fresh new spark and today we talk about giving your room a bright new note and here are my quick tips.

Décor: Try and replicate the standard that you would expect from a 5-star hotel (yes, seriously) and at the very least, make sure you provide the essentials: soap, toilet paper, spotlessly clean sheets and towels.

WiFi: This is a must, and you know most people cannot survive without a great connection to the internet!

In today's episode, Mags chats decluttering. Yes you heard it declutter!

Design and décor preparation doesn't only come in scatter cushions or pretty wall art its starts with the fundamentals. Let Mags tell you how it's done.

We have had an interesting number of clients calling Margaret Rose requesting home tips for Airbnb and call out to set up homes for domestic travel. When working on a specialised area of design and décor, I only deal with the specialists like Phillippa of Happy Host. Listen to more now.

Its great reflection of how much we have learnt, okay so we have spoken about your interior design style, outdoors, kitchens and your interior designer's jargon, your colour tips for each week.

Magaret Rose Interiors discusses the term Fen Shui and what this entails in interior design.

"You will hear me talk about this a lot because checking off each one is very important, so let me touch on your sense." - Mags

In today's episode, Mags takes us down her interior design journey and specifically a holiday apartment that we installed at the Pearls. Listen to more now.

"When compiling your mood board and furniture list select your furniture, hardware and fixtures and then select your paint colour at the end." - Margaret Rose Interiors

Bringing the outdoors indoors with planters, giant glass partitions instead of solid brick walls, and even something simple like wallpaper, bringing natural back in our homes is a biggie! This and more from Mags...

According to Trendbooks in 2021, we can look forward to some super cool interior design trends. Naval blue will be replacing black, this is still that deep rich luxurious colour but just adding the hint of royal to the room...

This design trend is gorgeous and very popular at the moment, where you combine woods and metal finishes, absolutely clutter-free. Learn more about what this trend is all about.

When we talk of carpet pile we speak the length of fibres from the backing, typically you will hear of low carpet pile, meaning the fibres are super short and coarse, medium carpet pile – easy to vacuum, and high carpet pile, soft on the feet with a sense of luxury. The carpet pile is exceptionally important when we are installing rooms, offices and rugs.

We wrap up a series in outdoor spaces, living and entertainment and what are the best steps to take in ensuring the area works for you and your family.

Outdoor storage: So how does this fit in with what you were talking about Mags? Well, it's a big part at making your outdoor area seem effortless and keeps the clutter out. Listen to learn more...

Outdoor fabrics for the win! Let Mags help you stop having to pack up your furniture every evening.

Once you have established the style and look then you can begin to look at the colour, let Mags help you pick the best colour palette for your outdoor space.

We live in a country that begs for outdoor living and entertaining, so I have taken the opportunity to speak to you about planning and setting up your outdoor space for this week.

Mags revisits some of the craziest interior design lingoes you've ever heard!

Interior design discussions over the past six weeks have been; colour tips for the week where we speak colour in your space and how it will make you feel, how to find your ideal interior designer, interior design online, setting up your space for homeschooling, planning how to achieve your dream home, budgets.

Picture this; navy blue, coral with a hint of gold – different you think and yes, it is! Using this colour palette and the balance of it is subtle but extremely effective and sets out for a nursery of a different kind.

"I was reminded of how exciting it is to be expecting a baby! I remember being so overwhelmed about all the little things you need to have just before baby arrives, so when I went to a gorgeous space in Hillcrest this week to set up a nursery, I made it my absolute mission to make it this journey one mamma won't forget." - Margaret Rose Interiors

The past week was back to work for many of us, by what I mean is we were back on site, back on the road and the process of seeing clients face to face again became our new reality. Today Margaret Rose interiors discuss during your interior update.

To wrap up a week of how to find your perfect interior designer, let's remember one thing; in everything in life, communication is extremely important. Without communication, there is nothing! Learn more from Margaret Rose Interiors today.

Mags continues the discussion about finding your dream interior designer and the next conversation you are going to have is BUDGET. Listen now.

In this episode of Interior Design with Margaret Rose, Mags continues the discussion about finding your dream interior designer. Budgets and suitability, what next? Listen to learn more.

We have a world open to us to access designers both near and far; we previously covered necessary steps in finding your interior designer but remember finding your perfect match for you and your family is HOMEWORK.

To avoid a nightmare experience with your next interior designer, try these tips, and you could be well on your way to a damn glam home and a daily wow moment in your space.

It is time for you to engage with your designer virtually, we are entering a virtual space and the sooner you become comfortable with the idea of selecting certain furniture items online the quicker your space can be installed with trust.

We always talk about lighting in your home, but your home extends outdoors and what better way to light up your life than with external lighting?

I" have been dying to talk about this for weeks, and will continue to do so over the next few weeks. Still, it is essential to know that as a designer, its a key element to understand colour psychology and how it affects human behaviour." Mags - Margaret Rose Interiors

Here are just a few ways to make an echoey space feel cosy with the help of Margaret Rose Interiors.

Next time an interior designer uses this term on you, you will know precisely what they are on about and what it means for you in your interior space.

In this episode of Interior Design with Margaret Rose, Mags talk about texture in a room and how the use of texture can be utilised in a bedroom especially, in a situation where someone has anxiety.

In this episode of Interior Design with Margaret Rose, Mags breaks down crazy jargon interior designers and decorators may use but leave you confused. Take a listen so that next time you chat to an interior designer, you know exactly what they are saying.

We all familiar with recycling, but what about opening your world to upcycling? You have been handed down that old boat ore and have no idea what to do with it? Don't throw it out!

Green: Don't shy away from the colour green. Juniper, Sage, Pine, Olive, Moss, Seaweed, and the ever so famous, emerald, to name but a few. Green represents many things like freshness, health, balance, organic, fertility, and did you know the colour green stimulates learning? Listen for more.

The past two weeks have been thrilling on the interior front as you have reached out and openly shared pictures of your homes with me. From teenagers bedroom ideas, lounge configurations and new colours to staging a kitchen for a sale, these are just some of the conversations we have had online.

"I love this one, leaving your kids to arrange and decorate your space, sounds scary and Mags have you gone mad? No! our kids are feeling this lockdown too and what a great way to give them ownership at no cost!" - Magaret Rose Interiors