Whether staying in a budget airport hotel or luxury villa within a hotel resort, guests now judge the quality of the establishment by its bathrooms. No longer is the hotel bathroom simply a functional space, it is becoming much more a part of a guest’s stay. The budget hotel sector is an area of the market that manufacturers would be foolish to ignore. Here, Hansgrohe explains what today’s guests expect from bathrooms in the hospitality sector.

Conservatories don’t have to be once-a-year rooms. A little privacy, a bit of temperature control and a touch of style is all it takes to transform this indoor-outdoor room into a more liveable space. And blinds enhance this possibility. Here, Web Blinds elaborates on current conservatory blind trends and the most common uses for UK conservatories.

Whether you’re newly qualified or a highly experienced designer, choosing a new HVAC system on behalf of a client is probably one of the most daunting tasks, be it for a new build or a refurbishment, a single dwelling or a multi-unit development (MDU). Here, Simon Buddle, Senior HVAC Consultant at Cornflake and Education Director at CEDIA, offers his hot tips and cool advice for specifying HVAC systems for your clients.

Productivity, mobility and flexibility – the conditions under which professionals fulfil their daily tasks demand a high degree of adaptability. New technologies are presenting employees with new challenges in ever shorter cycles accompanied by the demand to be available at all times. Many people are now putting work unreservedly at the centre of their lives. Increased individual responsibility and the growing complexity of professional life means that the lines between our work lives and private lives are beginning to blur.

Having originally trained in event management, Interior Designer Peter Staunton decided to retrain in the interior design sector and join his family’s business. Since his educational change, Peter has spent the last 10 years transforming the family business into a luxury design studio, Peter Staunton Interior Design.

On 26th May, Inex attended 2016’s Design Guild Mark awards at the Goldsmith’s Centre during Clerkenwell Design Week. Presented by Clerkenwell Design Week’s Director Will Knight, the awards were announced for a total of 19 recipients.

Situated in The Royal Fort Gardens of the University of Bristol’s Life Sciences building, sits a collaborative piece of artwork from Architects, Zeller & Moye and Artist, Katie Paterson. The wooden structure, known as ‘Hollow’, comprises 10,000 pieces of wood from 10,000 tree species from every corner of the globe.

Inspired by the design of the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, Germany, Ben van Berkel’s Circle sofa forms an interaction of convex and concave forms with contrasting colours of the intersection underlining its sculptural character.

With summer only just around the corner, we’re all looking forward to finally being able to spend more time outside in our gardens. Whether your clients enjoy dining al fresco or simply relaxing outdoors, it’s easy to create a comfortable and practical outdoor living space with stylish outdoor upholstery fabrics and cushions.

Crown Paints’ Sun-drenched City colour palette comprises layers of yellow teamed with hints of pinks and greens, radiating optimism and cheer to inspire thoughts of warm, long summer days. This palette is one of three curated by Crown Paints under its Colour Influences programme, providing useful content for designers and architects in the form of trend forecasting for spring/summer 2016.