Dressing for the occassion - New Year's Eve tabletop styling
December is generally dominated by all things Christmassy, which is no bad thing of course. Waiting ...
In the floristry workshop: the making of our handmade wreaths
The Christmas decoration that spells out the festivities from your front door onwards, a wreath is t...
The edited wardrobe
This autumn, our interiors anthology, Stories, turned ten-issues-old. So, to mark our entry into do...
Three ways with winter flowers
It seems that, every year, the arrival of winter sees our interiors being fast-tracked to all things...
Shifting your interiors into winter mode
With the advent of a new season comes the question of which updates to make to your decor so that it...
The creative direction behind our Christmas collection
Christmas might be the littlest of the collections we release each year, but that doesn’t mean to sa...
Finding your flooring
How to know which type of flooring is right for your home – your questions, answered.
Lighting your dining room: an interior designer’s tips
In a room where atmosphere is so important, how do you light your space? Read on for interior design...
Goes well with – pairing pieces from our new autumn collection
Our design team choose four pieces from the new autumn collection to showcase just how well they com...
Deep & meaningful
How to embrace dark furniture and deep wood stains in your home.
Making a non-Neptune statement
Designing so your Neptune piece sits back in your scheme allowing another item-of-interest to take c...
Weaving in wood
To oak or not to oak? To go dark or remain on the light side? To stick or to twist? These are the qu...
Kirstie & her Chichester kitchen
There are all sorts of ways that we discover our Real Neptune Homes, but one of our favourites is to...
Understanding the colour wheel
Best friend of designers, the colour wheel is an essential starting point in decorating your home. A...
A tale of three bookcases
Every year without fail, interiors writers the country over write stories of ringing the changes thr...
Make more of your front door with paint
This autumn, our interiors anthology, Stories, turned ten-issues-old. So, to mark our entry into dou...
Symmetry: thoughts from our founder
This autumn, our interiors anthology, Stories, turned ten-issues-old. So, to mark our entry into dou...
Three moodboards to inspire autumn schemes
Throughout spring and summer, we spoke a lot of moodboards – how to use them and why to use them whe...
Store styling – secrets from our stylists
‘Make yourself at home’ – that’s the phrase that probably best sums up the feeling that we want ever...
Making comfort the statement of your room
When defining a room’s narrative, whether you’re working to a moodboard or a mental picture, there’s...
Decorating inspiration: a trio of guest bedroom schemes
If yours is a home where there’s an unoccupied bedroom (or a few if you’re fortunate), instead of le...
Making the most of landing areas
One of the parts of the home that’s talked about the least is the landing – or landing areas plural ...
Reading a room
Interiors expert and former Livingetc editor Suzanne Imre explains how to read the proportions of yo...
Liz & her Chichester kitchen
Chichester is a kitchen that’s often brought into homes that want to create a classic English look. ...
In the making: Belgian linen
Finely crafted linen fabric, grown, spun, woven and finished in Belgium.
Getting creative with tester paint pots
Have you ever ordered a tester pot (or two, or ten) to help you decide what colour to pick for your ...
Behind the design: Holborn
Why? That’s what drives the design process at Neptune. Because when we create pieces with a genuine,...
Jane & her Limehouse kitchen
Limehouse is known for being our more obviously contemporary kitchen collection, and because of that...
Planning a project: our guide to getting started
Whether you’re planning a top-to-bottom redecoration, an extension or a simple refresh for one room ...
How to bring furniture into the middle of the room with Lauren Gilberthorpe
Whether your room’s big or small, there’s often a real temptation to position furniture around the e...
Our design team’s favourite furniture couplings
A few articles ago, we looked at how many styles of furniture to have in the same room so there’s ju...
Eclectic versus composed : How many styles of furniture to have in a room
Whenever you’re designing a room in your home, be it from scratch or adding a few new pieces over ti...
How to prepare your dining room for a gathering
With Easter on the horizon, we’re looking at the different ways that you can dress your dining area ...
You can never have enough books
Though you might not think of yourself as a collector of anything, chances are, you’re a book collec...
Top tables: choosing a dining table
Choosing a dining table isn’t a decision to rush into. It’s an investment piece; one of those items ...
Why modernism still matters
This spring, we’re focusing on the idea that less is more; the idea of gathering around you only inv...
The art of less is more
An old adage it may be, but at Neptune, the philosophy of ‘less is more’ runs deep, as Nicky, our pr...
What the Shakers taught us
Shaker style is an aesthetic and set of design principles that wasn’t borne out of fashion, neither ...
Bringing together the three layers of your room: colour, light and texture
Whether it’s your sitting room or your kitchen, your bedroom or your bathroom, decorating your home ...
How to: combine painted and brown furniture
It’s true that when defining your room’s colour palette, thought tends to begin with what colour to...