Local inspiration & activities – Home Office Charm

Eclectic Inspirations: From Ancient Crafts to Modern Brands

Look up from the main hall at Ashridge house and you will marvel at the amazing craftwork and design choices of those with an eye for style and culture hundreds of years ago.

**Love the smell of this had to take a photo so I can remembered it has Sweet Pea**

Overall my visits this week made me notice the extent of my eclectic appreciations, I can be enthralled by ancient design and crafts through to being captivated by 21st century crafting of our cultural practices from brands like Formaly Known as Hackles.

The Healing Power of Art in Your Workspace

Personal Reflections

Visiting my local hospital I found it enjoyable to pause and explore the art.

Charring Cross Hospital uses art well. The images below are what captured my thoughts this week when I visited the hospital for a check up.

Not only was I mesmerised by the colours, the vibrancy of the paintings, I noticed how easy it was for me to feel calmed and be part of a community of gallery viewers enjoying the art at my local hospital. You saw it, it made you contemplate when when you walk through their corridors or approached the lifts.

David Wiseman’s huge artwork on the first floor of Charring Cross hospital

Lovely small artworks on display at Charring Cross hospital in the main entrance

The wide array of artwork at the entrance of the hospital in Fulham

I never noticed the art before, it was a stressful moment for me but the art helped me to feel calmer. But it is a lesson to us all about the role that art could play in our own workspace.

Art is known to uplift, bring joy, elevate, bring hope or help our racing thoughts pause from its meditative transfixing properties.

So don’t forget to include art purchases if you are renovating your own home office and wanting to style your shelves.

Let me know in the comments, how many pieces of art do you have in your home office? How many on your shelves? How much art is on your wall to create an aesthetic virtual meeting backdrop?

If you want to see the art I created small enough to display on shelves, click on this link to browse the art that I sell on Etsy.

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Exploring Interior Trade Suppliers for Lighting Design Inspiration | DCCH

Personal Reflections

The featured imaged is AI. The machine computed what my blog was about and created a picture with that massive light with feathers. It made me chuckle 🤣.There is another AI generated image at the end of the blog. However, all of the images in the middle were taken by me.

This week I had some time mid week to wander around my favourite interior trade suppliers in Chelsea Design Centre. Being a West Londoner, hailing from Fulham Lots Road is very familiar to me.

Below shows more images of things that took my fancy. They show trimmings or lighting features that either conjured up excitement or a sense of cosy familiarity for me…

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Modern Corporate Furnishings & Fittings: The Arbor, London

Organisational Aesthetics

Clever Corporate Decor

My work as a corporate trainer/ instructor and coach this week took me for an onsite to our client in their new home in an amazing building. The Arbor Building is in Blackfriars Road in London, UK and it boasts that it is carbon neutral. There are neighbouring buildings and I’m told it is a fossil free development called Bankside Yards which is a major architectural, construction and interiors project feat. I was especially impressed at how beautifully the interiors echoed the sustainability ethos too. See the photos I took below

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Lakeside Photo inspo

Personal Reflections

I’ve always loved those American films that feature a beautiful house by the lake. Films like, On Golden Pond, What about Bob, The Lake House and Cape Fear. I was recently reminded of my fantasy of experiencing a break by the lake and log cabin living last week, because my 9 to 5 took me to the lake region of New Hampshire USA, for a conference.