Jali Stories
More Great Design Secrets – Unlocked!
Swoon Worthy It’s been a great week for coincidences – and design ideas! After posting last week’s Jali blog, which included tips on the art of grouping objects in interiors, I popped over to the lovely Swoon Worthy for some Christmas décor inspiration. (Last year, interiors blogger Kimberly Duran dressed her home, including her Jali…
Interior Design Secrets We Can All Use!
How To Decorate Like An Interior Designer It’s something lots of us would like to know, including the auction house Christie’s. It recently put the question to Max Rollitt, who revealed some of his decorating secrets in a Radio 4 interview. At Jali we love a man who appreciates a breakfront bookcase, so were fascinated…
Fabulous Fretwork For Festive Tables…
Fretwork Fun This week we’re having fun with fretwork. Actually, every week at Jali we do something interesting with fretwork – it’s one of the things we’re best known for. But now it’s all about the Christmas decorations and that is a whole other level of joy… This year, in the run-up to the festivities,…
Made To Measure, For Maximum Pleasure
Autumn is always lovely here in the Elham Valley, in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, where Jali is based. And autumn is always our busiest season; the factory is already humming with pre-Christmas orders. In particular, it seems that lots of you have realised that our Made to Measure Flexi shelving is…
Unique Furniture, Designed By You, For You…
I was leafing through the latest edition of the CoolBrands report for 2015/16, when an article jumped out at me. (Since 2001, CoolBrands has been compiling “an independent survey of experts and consumers to produce a yearly barometer of the coolest brands, people and places in Britain.” We’re not in it… Yet.) Written by Sam…
Bookcase And Dresser, For Now And Forever!
The Enduring Charm of the Classic Bookcase Despite changing times, fashions and technologies, there are some things we humans have created that just, well, work. Take the bookcase, for example. Recent doom-laden reports on the death of the printed book, at the hands (digits?) of the Kindle and other e-readers, have proved far from accurate….
Wardrobes For All Seasons
It’s that time of year for our wardrobes once again. When shorts, skirts and t-shirts make way for woollies, tights and coats. Although it’s always sad to wave summer goodbye. There are (whisper it) some of us at Jali who actually look forward to this change of season. If, on the other hand, you’re dreading…
Modern DIY – Fast, Fun And Frugal!
DIY Week It’s National DIY Week and here in the Jali factory you can’t move for champagne and bunting. Actually, that’s not true. But it’s great that DIY is being celebrated, as self-reliance and home-based skills are part of the UK’s rich tradition. (A bit like the WI, but with more power tools.) The Doyen…
Start With A Jali Smooth Surface, Then Add Texture…
Well, that was quick. Is it just me, or did Summer 2015 feel like a short dress-rehearsal for the real thing, with a few weeks of wintery cold, rain and fog thrown in to make up the shortfall? Of course, we may yet have an Indian Summer, as the Met Office is currently forecasting, though…
Radiator Covers: Quick, Chic And Easy…
Chic And Easy Designing A Bank Holiday weekend, like the one coming up, is the perfect time to design Jali radiator covers. A brilliant, Chic And Easy way to disguise ugly radiators or storage heaters, they provide the finishing touch to a room in a really stylish fashion. And they come with an integral shelf…
