Lancashire based Interior designers bringing space to life

Funny Floor!

Funny Floor!

Up the road from bwd HQ, not-so-sunny-Blackpool is home to one of the funniest floors we have seen in a long time – the Comedy Carpet! Sat on the front promenade, inbetween the beach and world famous Blackpool Tower, the Comedy Carpet is the Floor-Of-Fame for a collection of famous, memorable quotes by 850 writers […]

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Bringing In the Outdoors

A recent trend in the interior design world, for both home and commercial spaces, is bringing inside inspiration from outside! Whether its realistic and rustic, or a in a stylised, manfactured manner, there is no denying that statement tree fixtures are successfully bringing together aethetics and practicality. Bringing natural elements in to the home can […]

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Colour Names

My youngest daughter is attending a fancy dress day at her school and has chosen to dress as her favourite adventure character, little miss Dora The Explorer! Its a wonderful idea, but where is a busy mother supposed to find orange shorts?! Luckily she has an abundance of white PE shorts! The orange dye I […]

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Mulberry window

During a trip to Manchester I found a gorgeous pink window display in the Mulberry store. When you have a huge budget and a simple product (in this case, a handbag or two) you can get creative! We love the huge pink flowers against the simple white background, and the simple black line drawn ladders […]

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Pork on your Fork!

We came across this gem in the middle of Manchester! Forget ice cream vans, we are loving the bacon sandwich van by Pork on your Fork! Imagine coming across this the morning after the night before, or first thing on a Monday morning – such a wonderful idea. The use of a big red London […]

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Iglum cube fixtures by Etobic

We came across these fantastic colourful fixtures by Etobic and fell in love! These Iglum are great to look at, and give fantastic storage and display opportunities for retail spaces. Etobic are a great little company, based in Ontario in Canada, and deal with some of the problems we end up facing ourselves here at […]

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Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Even when I’m taking a holiday, I can’t stop finding inspiration, and interesting little things that grab my attention! While on a trip in Santa Cruz, we visited Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. The fantastic building is home to several exhibition halls, a library, and the Photography Center of Tenerife Island. “This is not only […]

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fantastic ideas at the Darwin Centre

The Darwin Centre is a great example of how combining simple, contemporary design ideas with the museums historical aspects can be really fun and effective. And we love the little details, like the funky desk and the “extinction sucks” souvenir lollypops!

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