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September 19, 2017

Luxaflex® 2017 New Season Sale – 20% Off

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Luxaflex has given us the perfect reason to get our homes Spring and Summer ready with their New Season sale – take advantage by swapping out your old look for some new and improved window furnishings, and score 20% off^#a large range of Luxaflex Window Fashions. But be quick, the sale ends 31st October 2017 so get in while you can.

This New Season sale includes several well known, high quality styles, including:

PolySatin^® Shutters

Combines the matte lustre look of painted wood with the durability of Polyresin for either interiors or exteriors. These shutters come with a 20 Year Warranty^‡.

Folding Arm Awnings

Offers sun protection, perfect for Sydney’s summer time. This season offers refreshed colours as well.

Silhouette Shadings

Two blinds in one, so you can enjoy the beauty of sheer curtains and the practicality of blinds in one.

Luminette Privacy Sheers

Combines sheer curtains with the adjustable blinds, both practical and aesthetically impressive.

Modern Roman Shades

Get the look of traditional roman blinds but in a more modern aesthetic, with a huge range of colours and fabrics.

Evo Awnings

Fantastic range of awnings for any outdoor space, and this product can be motorised with sun and wind sensors for extra protection.

Timeless Collection Awnings and Roller Blinds are also a part of this promotion.

Luxaflex products are made to measure and manufactured in Australia, and come with a five year warranty.

Take advantage of this great offer and update the look and feel of your home – before the end of October. Call us to book your free in-home design consultation or visit our showroom today in Russell Lea to see these products and many other fantastic products in the Luxaflex range on display. Call our team on 02 9712 2722.

You can also browse the range of Luxaflex products here or download the new season sale brochure here.

# 20% discount off Manufacturer’s List Price. Excludes installation and motorisation. Not available in conjunction with any other offer. Offer starts on 15/09/2017 and ends on 31/10/2017. Conditions apply, see in-store (Russell Lea), call 02 9712 2722 or visit luxaflex.com.au for details. † Promotion commences at 12.01am AEST on 15/09/2017 and closes at 11.59pm AEST on 31/10/2017. Visit luxaflex.com.au for full terms and conditions. Authorised under NSW Permit No LTPS/17/15816, ACT Permit No TP 17/01329. ‡ Conditions apply. Visit luxaflex.com.au for warranty details. A five year warranty applies to the Shutter hardware. ® Registered Trade Marks of Hunter Douglas Limited. © Copyright 2017 Hunter Douglas Limited [ABN 98 009 675 709].

Decorating

August 25, 2017

How to Bring Spring into Your Home

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Winter is almost over, and we’re ready to welcome back Sydney’s warm, sunny spring days! With a new season comes spring cleaning and, we think, a great excuse to refresh our homes! Our team has put together a few easy ways to spruce up your home just in time for spring time.

Spring clean

First thing’s first, clean up your space before you can look at rearranging or accessorising. First clean the rooms in your home, floors and walls so you can start fresh. The next step is to declutter. Donate or throw out anything you don’t need – books, magazines, toys, clothing, and weathered accessories – anything that no longer serves a purpose in your home and for your family. Once this is done, you can focus on enhancing all of your favourite features and spaces.

Bring flowers inside

Spring brings beautiful flowers, fresh air and time outdoors in nature. Bring that sentiment into your home by sprucing up your space with some greenery and floral arrangements. Indoor plants are beautiful, smell fantastic, and can even help you feel calmer. You can arrange a bouquet to match your existing decor or choose different colours that act as bold accents around your home.

Swap out some accessories

If you’re looking for an affordable way to enhance your home and celebrate the new season, think about changing up some of your accessories. Rugs, vases, artwork and smaller furnishings like cushions and bedding can make a big difference but don’t have to break the bank. Spring is a great time to be adventurous with colour.

Let the fresh air in

Get ready to put the sweaters, blankets and heaters away – it’s time to open up your windows and let the fresh air in! This small change will bring a new clean feeling into your home. If you have window furnishings like blinds and curtains, make sure to give them a good cleaning.

Decorate your walls

A new paint colour, or even a touch up on your existing paint job, is a great way to breathe new life into your home. Can’t paint your walls? Change up your window furnishings with new blinds or curtains. You can even consider adding some art or wallpaper to your walls, an easy addition that you can change relatively quickly with each new season or trend.

Decorating

August 10, 2017

Decorating Small Homes: Make the Most of Any Space

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Decorating a small space is not an easy task – whether it’s an office or a home – but follow our tips to making the most of the area you have and you can create a beautiful space for yourself.

Maximise storage

You don’t need to remodel in order to solve space issues – just work within your existing space by maximising storage. This is one of the most practical solutions and can be quite cost effective. Some ideas:

Utilise floor-to-ceiling shelves in any room
Create storage in furniture such as chairs, sofas and beds
Add shelves or other storage units above furniture and windows
If you have stairs, use the empty space and add shelving units or other accessories
Display books on their own display shelf above your sofa or desk
Invest in beautiful storage like canisters for the bathroom, jars for the kitchen and baskets for around your home. If you can’t hide belongings behind walls and closets, you can at least display them beautifully!

Arrange furniture wisely

In a small space, every piece of furniture makes an impact. Ensure that you need every item you have and choose each piece wisely so it serves a purpose and makes a statement – don’t cram pieces in if they don’t fit. Once you have your furniture, maximise the layout of each room by positioning furniture in the most optimal spots.

Look for furniture pieces that will serve more than one purpose to eliminate clutter:

Mount your TV to the wall instead of buying a stand
Hang bed side lamps from the wall or ceiling instead of setting them up on two nightstands
Hang keys on hooks near the door instead of adding a table for clutter
Choose children’s beds with storage underneath for toys, books and extra clothing

Have an entire room that serves two purposes? For example, if your home office is also a guest room, choose murphy beds or day beds are easily concealed during the day and don’t negate a comfortable bedroom ambiance at night.

Use colours, natural light and mirrors

Colour choices are key for small spaces, and you can use them to visually expand your space. Find key pieces of wall art and accessories, but don’t collect too much clutter. If your home or unit is very small, try to unify the space by creating one similar colour pattern throughout so each room flows into the next. As a general rule, steer clear of dark shades as a prominent colour theme for your home and opt for lighter colour options. If placed correctly, mirrors can reflect light and enhance the space in your home. Place them opposite your windows to help spread light, and see how a smaller space appears both larger and brighter.

Choose the perfect window treatments

Embrace window treatments that are positioned from floor to ceiling in a small space to make the room look larger. Choose sheer window treatments to let some sunlight in – again adding light to the space and creating the illusion of a larger room.

Are you inspired and ready to start decorating your small space? Whether you need help accessorizing or just choosing which window treatments will best suit your room, our experienced decorators can help. Give us a call on 02 9712 2722 to discuss your project with our team.

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July 25, 2017

The Difference Between an Interior Designer and an Interior Decorator?

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The job titles ‘Interior Decorator’ and ‘Interior Designer’ are often used synonymously – they sound similar and they are commonly mistaken for one another as they are within the same industry. However, these two jobs are different in several aspects.

Interior Designer

Interior designers match their client’s requirements with the functional layout of any given space – whether that be one room, an entire home, building or office. Typically they work on a building project from the start, sometimes even directly with the architect from the initial building stages. They look at how each room will be used and make sure they are designed practically for the client’s needs, including lighting, layout, sound and sometimes even down to the structure of a building.

Interior Decorator

Interior decorators focus on furnishings in a work or home environment. They use mainly furniture, accessories, textures, paint, fabrics, and colours to enhance the aesthetic appeal of a room, home or office. Ultimately they are concerned with creating or enhancing the visual appearance of their client’s space. Their job is to help bring a client’s dream to life, helping to decipher which style is desired – modern, country, contemporary, traditional, etc. – and bring that vision to life with furnishings and accessories. Decorators typically come in after a building is created and do not make alterations to a building’s structure or foundation.

If you’re looking to the aesthetic in your new home or office, or if you want to update the look in your existing space, our interior decorators are ready to discuss your tast and preferences. With over 20 years of experience, our qualified team will run through all of your ideas and bring your design dreams to life. Call our team on 02 9712 2722 to discuss your next project!

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July 7, 2017

Decorating Trends – Winter 2017

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Interior decoration trends are introduced each season. Two of our favourites for winter 2017 are velvet accessories and the use of a range of natural tones.

Velvet

Photo: GlobeWest

Velvet textures immediately add a luxe aesthetic to your space. It is trending in fashion and is equally fashionable in home decor in 2017. You can choose from major statement pieces, like sofas (see the image featured below), chairs and headboards, or you can accessorise your home or office on a smaller scale to embrace this trend. Objects such as cushions, stools, blankets and ottomans can be more cost effective and less overwhelming – but just as effective and on-trend. Particularly popular colours are blues, greens and pinks, but you can choose from almost any colour to match your existing style. The beauty of velvet is that even when the material wears in, it holds well so it can stay as a statement piece in your home long term.

Natural Tones

Photo: Warwick Fabrics

Caramel, brick, chocolate, and other earthy colours are trending this winter. You can choose to change the entire look of your room or home to match this look, or more easily accessorise with these colours for the season. The images below feature a very pulled together room styling, with each room focusing on a particular colour theme, but you can add this style into your existing decor as well. Dark green – and similar shades – has also seen a revival in the interior decorating world this season.

Luxaflex

May 30, 2017

Luxaflex® 2017 Mid Year Sale – 20% Off

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Treat yourself to a Luxaflex lifestyle with the Luxaflex Mid Year Sale, starting today! Take advantage of 20% off^#a wide range of Luxaflex Window Fashions for a limited time.

Included in this promotion is the exclusive range of Luxaflex^®Duette^® Shades. Duette^® Architella^® Shades are stylish and energy efficient, and can even help you save up to 43%¹ on your heating costs. You can also enjoy 20% off^# of PolySatin^® Shutters, combining the matte lustre look of painted wood with the durability of Polyresin for the ideal addition to any internal or external application. The shutters are made to measure in Australia, water-resistant and easy to maintain – all factors which make them ideal for high humidity areas such as bathrooms, kitchens, laundries and exterior applications.

The Mid Year Sale also includes 20% off^# of Modern Roman Shades, Roller Blinds, Panel Glide, Vertical Blinds, Wood Essence Blinds, Country Woods^® Venetians and Aluminium Venetian Blinds.

The Mid Year Sale starts on Friday 2 June and ends on Tuesday 18 July 2017. Call our team to book your in-home design consultation or you can visit our showroom in Sydney’s inner west in Russell Lea. You can also browse the range of Luxaflex products here or download the new season sale brochure here.

# 20% discount off Manufacturer’s List Price. Excludes installation and motorisation. Not available in conjunction with any other offer. Offer starts on 02/06/2017 and ends on 18/07/2017. Conditions apply, see in-store or visit luxaflex.com.au for details. † Promotion commences at 12.01am AEST on 02/06/2017 and closes at 11.59pm AEST on 18/07/2017. Visit luxaflex.com.au for full terms and conditions. 1 Savings are based on the installation of fully-recessed, reveal-mounted Duette Architella 20mm Blockout Fabric Shades in an average home in Sydney, compared with the House Energy Rating standard of Holland Blinds from AccuRate in that home. These calculations have been modelled by an independent third party. Savings will vary based on the window type and installation.

Luxaflex

April 19, 2017

The Benefits of Motorised Window Treatment Technology

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Home automation, and motorised window treatment technology specifically, has never been more accessible to homes and offices across Australia. Even more, it has become more affordable and easier for you to control all aspects of your window treatments easily and remotely. With a range of motorised window treatment options now, you can control energy expenditure, privacy, shade preferences and activate different controls in different extreme weather situations year round – whether that be wind, sun, rain and more.

There is now a variety of both wireless and wired battery options, or choose from various remotes to control your window furnishings – you can even now control all of these aspects from outside of your home via smartphone apps!

You can also enjoy the benefits of better safety for child and pets as there are no cables to worry about, and aesthetically you’ll benefit from a cleaner, more streamlined look. From a functional perspective motorised technology enabled blinds and awnings to last longer and remain stronger.

Save money with motorised solutions as well – your furniture and art will be better protected from the sun with timers scheduled to provide shade in sunny times of the day.

Take advantage of some of the latest technologies in Australia:

POWERVIEW

This technology from Luxaflex allows for motorised operation of some of the most popular window treatments with just the press of the button on the PowerView Pebble'” Remote or the tap of a smartphone app on your mobile or tablet. The app is available for both iOS and Android devices. You can schedule actions for your window treatments throughout different times of the day. You can even schedule scenes that will activate automatically throughout the day – control the natural light in your home or office and personalise settings from each room individually or in the entire home.

QMOTION

Luxaflex® roller blinds with Qmotion technology is the only one of its kind available that has batteries inside of the roller tube. This creates a super quiet, wire free system inside a home or office. With the QMotion Timer Remote you can set up your blinds to operate and change at a specific time of day, to any settings you prefer for any room in your space. Installation and set up is easy, with a press of a few buttons you’re all set. The remote batteries also last up to five years.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MOTORISED SYSTEMS

Our team can meet with you and run through samples of the products and explain how each of these technologies work to establish which option is best for your preferences. Call us today on 02 9712 2722, or book a consultation online.

Luxaflex

October 1, 2016

Luxaflex® New Season Sale – 20% Off Window Fashions

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The Luxaflex^® Window Fashions New Season Sale is on now! You can save hundreds with 20% off^#a select range of Luxaflex Window Fashions.

Enjoy 20% off^# the stylish and durable Luxaflex^® PolySatin^® Shutters – combining the matte lustre look of painted wood with the durability of Polyresin for the ideal addition to any internal or external application. Made to measure in Australia, the shutters are easy to maintain and water-resistant making them perfect for high humidity areas such as bathrooms, kitchens, laundries and exterior applications.

You can also enjoy 20% off^# of Luxaflex Folding Arm Awnings – including the compact sized Nisse Awning, a full cassette awning that can cover an area 5m wide and 3.5m in projection. It’s the perfect time to update your outdoor entertaining area.

The New Season Sale also includes 20% off^# of these fantastic Luxaflex Window Fashions products:

Silhouette^® Shadings
Luminette^® Privacy Sheer
Pirouette^® Shadings
Modern Roman Shades
PolySatin^® Shutters
Ventura Awnings
Como Awnings
Garda Awnings
Ventura Terrace Awnings
Evo Awnings

To take advantage of this great offer, call us to book your in-home design consultation or visit our storefront in Russell Lea today to see the abovementioned products and many other Luxaflex products on display.

The New Season Sale ends on Tuesday 1 November 2016 – so be quick! Call our team today for a free consultation on 02 9712 2722, or you can first browse more of the range here.

Download the new season sale brochure here:

New Season Sale Brochure

# 20% discount off Manufacturer’s List Price. Excludes installation and motorisation. Not available in conjunction with any other offer. Offer ends on 01/11/2016. Conditions apply, ask in-store.

Luxaflex

September 27, 2016

Luxaflex® Evo Awning Range

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Looking for a beautiful solution for your outdoor space, with easy operation and customisability? Consider the range of Luxaflex® Evo awnings. All of our awnings can also be motorised with sun and wind sensors, making them even easier to operate.

There are several awning models in the range:

Cable guide

Side tension channel

Straight drop

Pivot arm

CABLE GUIDE

As its name suggests, sturdy stainless steel cable wires guide the awning as it opens and closes. Cable Guides offer precision control and stability and are the perfect option when tension channels (see below) cannot be affixed to the building.

SIDE TENSION CHANNEL

This has a neat, seamless finish, because there are no cables or wires visible in this model. Channels guide the awning as it opens and closes, stopping the fabric from ‘blowing out’ which gives you greater control over ‘gaps’ and means you can eliminate insects, as well as control privacy, wind and temperature more effectively. Side tension channel operation is usually recommended for high-wind areas.

STRAIGHT DROP

This version is generally used for uncomplicated building openings where a straight drop awning will effectively cover the space and where there are no posts or walls to affix the blind. Straight Drop awnings are fixed to the ground instead.

PIVOT ARM

Ideal as an external window covering, the Pivot Arm action allows you to change the angle of the awning and manage how much sunlight and glare comes into your home.

NEED MORE DETAILS?

Talk to a member of our professional design team today for advice on the most practical awning for your purpose. We visit your premises with samples and personally explain the different applications, showing you how they would look and operate at your home. Call us on 02 9712 2722, or you can view the range in more detail online.

Curtains

August 23, 2016

Motorised Curtain Tracks, For the Ultimate in Convenience

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With advances in modern technology and prices becoming more accessible through greater competition in the market, it is more affordable than you may think to motorise your curtains. Motorised curtains combine the convenience and flexibility of automation for enhanced control and comfort.

At the touch of a button, privacy can be instantly achieved and you can effortlessly reduce heat and glare from entering your rooms. Opening and closing your curtains has never been easier and you’ll have no more ugly cords to untangle or dirty hand marks to worry about!

Motorisation can also give your home more security as timers can be fitted to open and close your curtains at a specific time to give the impression that someone is home even if they are not.

THE ULTIMATE IN ROOM COMFORT AND CONTROL

Decorating Decor Interiors’ high performance Saber motorised tracking system is reliable and quiet and features:

A sleek, compact design in matt black or white
A wireless remote-control for operating single, double or multiple curtains
State-of-the-art technology linked to your computer so you can adjust your curtains from another room or when you’re out and about
A manual function that enables you to open and close your curtains by hand
Three different systems to cater to a variety of curtain weights
Tracks that can be bent or curved to suit a variety of window shapes

SAFETY FEATURES

The Saber motorised tracks can be stopped by hand. With manual control overriding the motorised system, you can safely stop the curtain while in motion. If the curtain meets any other resistance, it will also automatically stop.

EXPERT SELECTION AND PROFESSIONAL INSTALLATION

Decorating Decor Interiors’ expert decorators can advise you on the model of Saber motorised tracking that best suits your curtains and window span. Let us install your automated system for a new way of living with modern convenience – call our team on (02) 9712 2722 or enquire online for a free quote.

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Maximise storage

Arrange furniture wisely

Use colours, natural light and mirrors

Choose the perfect window treatments

QMOTION

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MOTORISED SYSTEMS

CABLE GUIDE

SIDE TENSION CHANNEL

STRAIGHT DROP

PIVOT ARM

NEED MORE DETAILS?

THE ULTIMATE IN ROOM COMFORT AND CONTROL

SAFETY FEATURES

EXPERT SELECTION AND PROFESSIONAL INSTALLATION

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