Whether it be tiered and deep pantry drawers

...or ingenious corner drawers

Well organized cutlery drawers....

Drawers with wide handles

or drawers with recessed handles.

even drawers with no handles.

Vertical drawers

and horizontal drawers

Drawers for gadget junkies

And gorgeous drawers for minimalists.At Denise O'Regan Design - Sydney we pride ourselves on competitive prices AND brilliant advicehttp://www.internationaldesign.com.au

It is no secret that one of our favourite product designers is the multi-talented Lee Broom of London. Lee has crossed the impossibly crazy gulf between product design, fashion design, and interior design of both residential and commercial property to come out the other side as a recognized and multi-awarded ambassador for UK design.

He has achieved the seemingly impossible at incredible speed, and in his haste, has cut a swathe through the design industry in Europe and taken the bar-world by storm with his edgy, brilliant, and cleverly illuminated commercial interiors. 

If for a nano second you dispute my claim, then look at his amazing club chair set with LED lights. I would defy anyone to name another product more scene-stealing, more jaw-droppingly beautiful, more definingly modern, yet more up-cycled vintage.

Lee combines all the insanity of creative manipulation, with impossible concepts, and a driven imagination. Without stating the bleeding obvious, he clearly has the fire burning in his belly as strongly now as he did when he first burst on to our radars 10 years ago.

His exquisite body of products are available through his Bond St studio in London, or in Australia through Considered This? Interior Agencies of Sydney. Denise O'Regan Design are also proud specifyers of the Lee Broom product range in Sydney.

http://www.leebroom.com
http://consideredthis.com.au
http://www.internationaldesign.com.au

Shedding some new light on kitchen renovations.

The momentous decision to upgrade, update, overhaul or makeover a kitchen is both daunting and challenging to the homeowner, but for those of us in the industry, every kitchen project we undertake, is somehow a pleasurable and passionate experience. We thrive on it, and we feel liberated by the experience. The final results of course, give us the greatest rewards.

Updating by comparison to new-builds, requires a new set of parameters for each occasion. No two existing kitchens are the same, and the updates and alterations are certainly as individual as the clients we aim to please. All will have differing challenges, differing requirements, and of course all will have different budgets.&

Some clients are gadget junkies, some loathe cooking (believe it or not), some require a clear-bench policy, and others love the metallic tangle of exposed pots and utensils. Some love bright colours, and some adore black. Thankfully, the world is not populated with clones of each other, or dealing with the public would be frankly, exceedingly dull.

Since the Global Financial Crisis, the average kitchen budget has dropped immensely. This has made the industry leaner certainly, and like everyone else as a company we have tightened belts and reigned-in spending. On the up-side, it has taught us to be more creative with kitchen design, and more liberal in our design thinking.

We have always enouraged more liberal thinking from clients, but what we have found is that a natural progression of the tougher times, is the almost mandatory need for clients to weigh-up otions more keenly. Whereas a client once insisted on granite, they will now be just as feverishly requesting we put forward other products for consideration.Clients who would not see past polyurethane cupboard doors, and would not for a moment consider laminate doors, are browsing all the wonderfully different surfaces available for doors, including perspex and glass.

This shift in consideration is refreshing and one of the real joys of our changing economic times. Necessity is the mother of invention...FACT. We still want our new kitchen sooner rather than later, and we still want to be over-joyed with the results, but the budget is now more restrictive so where can we cut costs? As kitchen designers and installers, we are so often reminded that a $1,000.00 saving on the re-fit, could mean a new kitchen appliance. A $500.00 saving on flooring could mean that wonderful steel cupboard componentry that you have coveted for some time. Even a $200.00 saving on a sink, can make the difference between the mixer of your dreams, or a generic tap of little appeal.

So in essence we promote creativity, encourage jumping outside the box to consider everything available, and proudly insist on keeping vast ranges of hard surface sampling on hand, in order for you to make informed choices that do not result in a 'project' kitchen that does nothing to enhance or rarify your property.

Decor Walther are a German company who supply brilliantly targeted, bathroom-specific fittings and fixtures. They have recognized the need to add illumination to bathrooms at every opportunity, but they have crucially also acted on the fact that by placing a light in front of a mirror, a greatly increased lighting affect is achieved.
Hence their range of mirror lights.

Generally this range can be clipped-on to the mirror, or drilled through the mirror (see image 3). We love the clip-ons. They are like little reading lamps, but with illumination being thrown back by the mirror in situ behind the lamp.