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Interiors gift ideas for Christmas 2020: China and Ceramics

Last week Element Studios considered lighting gift ideas for Christmas. Lighting can create atmosphere, highlight or hide, transform a space and create intimacy – but real intimacy is tactile. In the home, this means china and ceramics. When looking for Christmas gifts, the great thing about tableware and accessories is that you can never have

Interiors gift ideas for Christmas 2020: Lighting

How about ditching the usual slippers and gloves this Christmas, and gift something for the home that’s quirky and been made with love? The great thing about interiors pieces is that you can always find something unique that fits in with any budget. There’s a special gift out there for everyone: vintage; handmade; minimal; high-tech;

Interior architecture in historic buildings

As an Oxford-based interior architecture business, Element Studios often works with historic buildings. We are very lucky to live in such a richly historical environment and through our work, to see parts of the ancestral fabric that are seldom seen by the public. Historic buildings require a very nuanced approach; partly to be sympathetic to

A Sustainable Hygge-Influenced Christmas

We’re doing away with the stress of feeling the need to over produce, over consume and over spend at Christmas, and approaching things differently, with a new way of thinking that can be rolled out into the New Year.

Clerkenwell Design Week

We’ve been so busy lately this is the first opportunity we’ve had to share our highlights from Clerkenwell Design Week, one of our favourite weeks in the design calendar.

Trends for 2018

Is 2018 the year of looking after ourself and others? Two keywords we are hearing a lot of this year are self-care and kindness.

How to decorate for the festive season

With Christmas fast approaching, we all have lots of things to do and places to be. Even so, decorating your house can be fun, quick and easy.

5 steps to designing an office space for a ‘lean, focused and agile corporation’

“We wanted our new offices to be an exciting environment with a modern, tech-led look and plenty of space to create, write formulae on walls and communicate ideas…”

6 Interior Designer tips for creating fabulous show flats that sell. Camilla of Element Studios shares some proven ways to entice buyers.

The conversion of The Market Building in Brentford was the third of three projects Element Studios worked on for Verve Properties.

Clients talk about the process of transforming their North Oxford home

IN DISCUSSION: Element Studios founder, Camilla Leech and Architect, Peter Pritchard of PPA Architecture talk with their clients about productive professional relationships and the process of transforming their home.

In this short film about ‘How we do things’ you can get an inside view at the results of a major refurbishment project in North Oxford. Hear first hand how a house has been transformed from something that is disjointed and frustrating to live in, into a light-filled, functional and spectacular family home.