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My name is Matt Allison.
I go by many titles with over a decade of experience in the design industry. My work has been featured in various lifestyle publications including Home, House & Leisure, Elle Decoration, VISI, Real Estate, Good Taste & The Sunday Times.
Based in Sydney, Australia my approach to interior styling and design is clean and timeless. I believe in creating spaces that are simple and functional, yet practical enough to deal with the ever-growing demands of daily life.
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Category Archives: DIY
Paintastic! Plascon
Image courtesy of Plascon
It’s no secret that I have a love affair with Plascon paints.
Plascon in turn are well aware of my infatuation and reached out to me through social media to let me know that they’d like to send me some paint for an upcoming project.
In the order of reciprocity I suggested that I use their paints as part of a weekly ‘how-to’ series here on the blog, so over the next few weeks on Thursdays I’ll be rolling out a few tutorials.
Paint is one of the cheapest, easiest ways to transform your home and it’s easily rectified if you aren’t happy with the outcome.
Experimenting with colour is now even easier with Plascon’s new(ish) 250ml Cashmere and Double Velvet tester pots.
Also take a look at their FREE ‘Inspire Me’ mobile app which offers suggestion and input into choosing colours. Users can snap or upload a pic of a colour or scheme they like and it matches it to over 1000 of their colour offerings. Wish your room could resemble your favourite vintage dress? Now it can!
For more paint inspiration take a peek at Plascon’s Plascon Trends website as well as their visionary Freeworld Design Center and follow them on Twitter at PlasconSA and FreeworldDC respectively.
Plascon also release their 2013 palate and trends forecast info later this month, so stay tuned to see what’s in store!
Managing the mantle
Following on from my piano styling tips and inspiration today I turn the focus to the mantle.
Many older homes, mine included (seen above) have built in fireplaces and mantles. They can be somewhat awkward to arrange so imagine my surprise when I stumbled across Emily Henderson’s new ‘how to style your mantle’ video tutorial courteous of modshift.
how to style your mantle from modshift on Vimeo.
While I’m not 100% in agreement with her on everything, it’s a good starting point with some great insight and ideas.
Here are a few more images to provide some visual inspiration and stimulation.
Image courtesy of Design Sponge
Images courtesy of Real Simple and Atelier Abigail Ahern
Image courtesy of Design Sponge