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The New Normal: 5 Things to Fix as We Come Out of Lockdown
For months we've been looking forward to seeing family and friends again, but as lockdown finally looks as if it's coming to an end fear strikes... Are we ready to face the world again? On closer inspection, quite a few things are not tip top presentable in the...
Post Lockdown Beauty Tips: How to Face the World Again
Optimism is in the air, things are changing. Lockdown is loosening and soon we'll be....free. Gosh! Some of us may need a little more time before we are ready to face the world again - it's been ages since the last visit to the hairdresser. Mascara? What was that...
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Scandi Boho Decor – How to Get that Chic Nordic Look
Scandi and Boho are two opposite styles. Scandi is neat and minimal - Boho is impulsive, dramatic and colourful. Generally, the Nordic style is gallery-like with sharply defined lines and surfaces. Here less is more… But Boho is romantic, a beautiful, welcoming,...
What is Gustavian Furniture: How to Get the Swedish Look
Swedish Gustavian furniture may look very familiar... It is a pared down version of French Louis XVI, one of the most admired and imitated interior styles in the world - from a hugely controversial period in French history. It is also our favourite home decor style of...
How to Arrange and Decorate With Indoor Plants Stylishly
Decorating with plants is like adding colour, atmosphere and freshness to a home. It's also a way to add dimension and a sense of space. Adding space is parcularly important in smaller urban apartments, but plants can also be used to emphasise the space available in...
How to Rent or Buy a Beach House in Denmark
Only Danish citizens can buy a beach home in Denmark, it says. But there ARE ways foreigners can buy or rent a holiday home by the sea and 'hygge' the Scandi way during their holiday. The small Nordic country is a popular summer holiday destination with 4,300 miles of...
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How to Become an Amateur Gardener and Turn Your Indoor City Space into the Perfect Urban Jungle
For many of us locked down in city apartments during the Covid-19 pandemic, gardening became the most popular activity. For those living on their own, plants were the only company they had for weeks. And keeping them alive and watching them grow became a job in...
Popular Houseplants and How to Create an Urban Jungle
It was a kind of joke throughout lockdown that it was normal to talk to your plants. It was only a problem if they actually replied... Our time spent in isolation due to the worlwide coronavirus showed more than ever that houseplants can be our best friend. Indeed,...
Best Indoor Garden Ideas and How to Create Scandi Style Living
Scandis use lots of wood when making furniture - bringing nature into the home.The same is with flowers. For some people flowers serve to decorate their home. In indoor Garden Ideas we show how most Scandis bring the outdoors inside with flowers and green plants - and...
Best Indoor Plants and How to Create that Scandi Boho Decor Style
Some house plants add glitz, colour and atmosphere and help bring nature into a city apartment. Others simply fill an empty space. But the house plant for the Scandi Boho home is different... With Scandi interiors famously minimal and bright, accessories stand out...
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First Time Buyer – How to Find Your Perfect Home and Buy It
Buying your own home is one of the most exciting and best things you can do for yourself. But, of course, it's not as easy as it sounds. At first it seem a daunting and risky thing to do - but with the help of agents, lawyers, family and friends, it is worth it....
Carpet vs. Wood – How to choose a Floor for your Scandi Style Home
Experts take a neutral stand when asked what is better - a wooden floor or carpet in the home. At DU we are biased - we are firmly in favour of a wooden floor. But there are advantages and disadvantages to both and let's deal with those below.Why Millennials want...
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Scandinavian Graffiti and How to Create Street Art at Home
Once upon a time graffiti was a word for bad art or scribbles by unruly children on buildings in the rough part of town. Or on the side of trains. Graffiti was vandalism committed by an underclass who didn't know how to express themselves like artists and writers....
Best Art: How to Collect and Decorate the Scandi Boho Home
It is almost easier to explain what kind of art is Not best suited to the Scandi boho chic home than what really is best suited... Placing art in the Scandi Boho chic home is Not about filling blanck spots on the wall or finding something to place on an empty table or...
Private View: How to Shop for Art as a Millennial Homeowner
Buy art with confidence by attending private views. Private View: Buying Art as a Millennial Homeowner teaches you how to get invited and find great pieces. If you’re a first time home buyer wondering what to hang on your walls, Private View: Buying Art as...
Wall Decor and Pop Art Style: How to Paint like Andy Warhol
Art is not just for experts – Wall Decor: Paint Andy Warhol style Pop Art shows how you too can create interesting wall art to brighten up your home. Painting looks easy – a brush, a bit of paint plus a canvas and you’re there, right? Well, yes and no. We’ve seen on...
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Post Lockdown Beauty Tips: How to Face the World Again
Optimism is in the air, things are changing. Lockdown is loosening and soon we'll be....free. Gosh! Some of us may need a little more time before we are ready to face the world again - it's been ages since the last visit to the hairdresser. Mascara? What was that...
5 Important Beauty Tips few People Think About
At DU Beauty we keep things simple, following the Scandinavian ethos of less is more. Rather than paint over our cracks, we celebrate them and prepare for healthier skin going forward. Here are five of our top tips which sometimes get left out of our beauty routine -...
Beauty on a Budget – How to Use Hydrating Serums in Your Cleansing Regime
We're late comers to hydrating serums. But as the skin ages - as it starts doing already in our early 20s - hydrating serum becomes a go-to product for many of us to help combat those fine lines. Personally, we use it after cleansing our face and rinsing in spring...
Anti Ageing Tip – How to Avoid Lines Under Your Eyes Longer
Fine lines under our eyes can be disguised with foundation and concealers but, actually, sometimes that could just make it worse. Certainly in the long run. So often we, particularly younger women, apply makeup on the train or bus on their way to work. Super busy, in...
No 1 Beauty Tip: Cleanse in Spring Water and Look Younger for Longer
There is a raft of amazing beauty products on offer, thankfully, for many different skin types. But there's one beauty treatment that's overlooked...and it's plain spring water. Not just for drinking, but also as a key part of our facial cleansing routine Beautifully...
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How to Choose a Zoom Work from Home Background
Some will view the chance to peer into people's homes through video conferencing as a positive result of the Covid pandemic - others will view it as an irritant. Creatives and corporate staff discovered they can still get work done via Zoom after Covid-19 put a...
Work From Home: How to Pick Chic Design Ideas for the Home Office
Who doesn't dream of working from home - or saying goodbye to the commute and to office politics? The desire to set up shop at home can be irresistible. Luckily, it's a dream many have fulfilled and with the internet and increased work-from-home patterns, most of us...
Working from Home: How to Sit Comfortably with a Sit Bone Cushion
Have you been covering your work from home chair with sofa cushions and anything else you can lay your hands on because it makes your bottom or back hurt? If the answer is yes, here's your lockdown lifesaver: the sit bone cushion, a specially constructed cushion that...
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