Green Presents for the Ethical Home
We’ve got some way to go until we can all call our homes truly eco-friendly or ethical, but even the smallest changes can have a big impact to the environment (and our wallets). Creating an ethical home isn’t necessarily about making large-scale alterations to your house in order to reduce your carbon footprint. Being ethical is a personal choice that places more emphasis on the social and environmental responsibilities of being a home owner. We can all do our bit, and we can help others by buying them green presents for the home that will hopefully encourage them to be more environmentally aware too.
Joanna Perry Hand Painted Murals
I create original hand painted wall murals to enhance any room. I’m based in Cheshire and cover the whole of the county and the North Staffordshire area. My contemporary and children’s murals at www.kidswallmurals.co.uk are an exciting and original alternative to wallpaper as well as a cost effective solution to re-decorating a room.
Whether it’s to theme a nursery, update a child’s room or enhance a living space, you can have any style or design, tailored to suit your specific taste and budget.
The Design
As an experienced muralist, all of my murals are drawn free hand with no stencilling or projections involved. This allows me to transfer your ideas directly onto the wall with no scale or design restriction. I can work to all scales and budgets, producing either simple colourful wall murals to enhance a style of room – or completely theme a room in intricate detail. No project is too large or too small, and every project is treated with the same personal care and attention. When producing an interior scheme I can either translate your specific ideas directly or if you would prefer I can produce imaginative design creations for you. You may already have a room decorated and decide you want to take details from a border, curtains or duvet cover and create a mural to finish the room off.
Healing Problem Houses
We’ve all heard someone say ‘that’s a sad house’. Either more than one person living in the house has passed on, or people become sick. Perhaps the house has seen more than its fair share of divorces or arguments. It may be known locally as a ‘haunted house‘. The atmosphere surrounding the house is negative, and no-one seems to know why. Maybe you own such a house and want to sell. Or maybe you’re tired of being sick all the time. The good news is: there is a cure, and it will work.
Look After Your Leather
Leather has traditionally been used to give the feeling of luxury to automobiles and furnishings. Hand-built cars and furnishings were trimmed in leather and exotic woods. This tradition continues today on the production line, but as production techniques have changed, so has the leather, it is now much thinner and needs more careful care. In addition, leather is now tanned with recyclable materials which reduces process times and waste by-products, but also results in the attractive "smell" traditionally associated with quality leather being lost.
The need to care for such leather finishes has lead to the creation of specialist leather care products such as Liquid Leather which clean, soften, protect and restore all leather articles from jackets, handbags and saddles to car and domestic seating. The Liquid Leather products are available with Scotchguard ™ for water and dirt repellence and the latest formulation even adds the traditional "smell" to new and old leather products. A full spectrum of leather colours can be treated with Liquid Leather and the range also includes specialist leather furniture care products such as Scuff Master leather dyes which are able to cover unsightly "scuffing" or rubbing that can often result in areas of heavy or continual usage.
Wallpaper is Making a Comeback!
I remember as a child, all the rooms in our house were wallpapered. When the time came to redecorate (that is, when mum told dad to redecorate) there was such a hullaballoo over getting the wallpaper off the walls and hanging the new wallpaper. But the best bit was picking the wallpaper for the walls to be redone. I loved going to the wallpaper shops and looking at all the rolls, and at the swatches of them. The colours and textures were delicious; some were thick and fuzzy, some were light and airy, but all were lush and could change the entire feel of a room. We spent weekends stripping the walls and cleaning off the glue, before placing the new rolls in the long buckets of water so the glue would moisten and help the paper stick to the walls.