HELENA COUSINS
Zinc Interior Design
Operating in the Dublin and Leinster region, Helena earned a 4-year Advanced Diploma in Environmental Design from DIT and a Bachelor’s Degree in Textile Design from NCAD. With more than 20 years of extensive experience crossing commercial hotel fit-outs to exclusive residential design, she offers a balance of creativity, collaboration and forward-thinking to create and design interiors with an eye for quality and a client-centred approach to business.
Style So Simple: Cosy Conservatory Revamp
Style So Simple: Cosy Conservatory Revamp
Style So Simple an award-winning interior design studio based in Cork city. Set up in 2017 by Interior Architect Aoife Tobin with the aim of bringing affordable Interior Design to everyone no matter what their location.
Luxaflex® – The Art of Window Styling
Luxaflex® – The Art of Window Styling
Have you just bought your new home or improving your current home? Window styling has endless possibilities. How you dress your windows can have a big impact on the overall look of a room. Whether you are looking for privacy, light control, remote operation, temperature control or simply window styling, Luxaflex® has the product to suit your needs.
How to create the Perfect Bathroom
How to create the Perfect Bathroom
A bathroom all be it one of the most often used rooms in the house is quite often forgotten in something like the remodel of a house, but it is almost always an easy fix to spruce it up a bit. It starts with trying to organise all the toiletries and towels. This can often be solved by removing old bottles. Another solution is instead of having a mirror, have mirrored cabinets or multi-tray storage units to hold items and stop them from cluttering up your bathroom.
Curtains or Blinds – When is best to use which?
Curtains or Blinds – When is best to use which?
Curtains and blinds are both very different in how the act and in how they look but ultimately have the same outcome. Curtains do come across much more stylish and can fit in with the rest of the decor nicely if chosen well. They can be used to coordinate with everything else in the room or stand out in contrast. Whereas curtains do come in a variety of styles and texture they are not a useful in everyday life as blinds are. Curtains have the added benefit of adding warmth to a room, they also work as a sound barrier to keep noise inside the room. But blinds make a room seem much larger and fold away easily.Â
How to choose the right rug for your room
How to choose the right rug for your room
A nice rug can often set the tone of a room. It can help turn a room into a comforting and welcoming environment. This all comes down to choosing the right size, shape and colour rug to go with the room, while keeping in mind the amount of space you have in the room and what type of room you are fitting out.