Photo Shoot

I've arranged a few photo shoots now for Heuga catalogues and here's some of the people that get involved...

Helen Carey is a stylist and she finds fab real home locations and models for our pictures along with doing all the styling for the shots creating the right atmosphere in the homes.

Helen has done loads of interesting things and worked on some really interesting projects. We bumped into her mate Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen when we went to the 100% Design Show a couple of years ago.

Here's a link to Helen's website http://www.helencarey.com/index.htm

Helen's husband Fraser Cunningham is the main photographer for the shoots and he is a good laugh and great at slecting the best angles and getting plenty of flooring in the shots.

Helen and Fraser live on the Isle of Wight which is a fab place and many of the shoots have been down there on the island.

The next main guy is Eddie Kempster and he runs a carpet fitting company 'E Kempster Flooring' focusing mainly on carpet tiles. He is a fun guy and keeps us all entertained.

It is amazing to watch him and his guys cut and fit tiles in the most awkward of spaces.

In this picture Eddie is sporting our FunkyFeet shagpile carpet tiles on his head and Fraser's glasses.

There are some other great people that get involved and I'll try and get some pics on the shoot.

So, tomorrow I need to order the products, confirm the dates with Eddie and sort out my travel to the lovely Isle of Wight for our next shoot for the 2008 Heuga catalogue. Here's a photo of a beautiful sunset from the beach from the last time I was there. If you look closely yu just about make out the Spyglass Inn in Ventnor which is a lovely little pub where we've eaten a few times whilst on photo shoots.

My Square Vision!

This is me in my office sporting a lovely Heuga T-shirt!

I've decided it would be smart to write about the fun stuff that we get up to at Heuga.com because it is quite a fun place to be and we want to share our Square Vision with the world! Actually, I just came up with the term Square Vision this morning but I quite like it!

Heuga Home Flooring is all about being creative with your floor. Some people seem to be a bit nervous about straying from the conventional wall to wall carpet, but Heuga carpet tiles offer you a huge range of design options for flooring for your home. Some people just don't like the name 'carpet tiles' so we tried calling it 'modular flooring' to get over this problem but then people get all confused about what it is we are talking about.

Embrace the Tile

There's no need to be scared - it is time to be brave and embrace the endless possibilities of modular flooring, carpet tiles, carpet squares - whatever you want to call it !

Here's a couple of my favourite pictures to ease you into the world of creative flooring!

Modern Floor Combination in the Dining Room

This is my favourite Heuga photo. Part of my job includes organising photography with a fab bunch of great people (will cover them later) so forgive me for feeling passionate about the results. Anyway this shot shows WoodWork around the edge of a rug of DayDream. This demonstrates how simple it is to make a floor more interesting and create a focus point for the room.

WoodWork is a great product as it looks like wood but is soft like carpet. Now that we have all experienced the faults of laminate - cold, hard, dust covered stuff - our WoodWork product ticks the boxes of stylish design with homey comfort.

DayDream is my favourite Heuga product (the light coloured product in the centre of the picture above). This comes in 3 similar light beige type colours, Cotton is my favourite as shown here. This has a lovely chunky texture design and looks like wool.

Luxurious Bedroom Floor Design

This picture shows an elaborate posh bedroom scheme with a fabulous luxurious floor.

The main product is Luxury Living in colour ice cream - a really stylish and stunning product combining three different textures in the same colour to create this subtle striped design.

In designer speak - the red carpet around the bed enhances the image of grandeur and adds a really stylish focus for the room. This red carpet is PuzzlePieces in colour Amaryllis.

PuzzlePieces comes in 20 colours and is a really great product to combine with others. If you love the colour red or orange or green, but you're a little nervous about having a floor entirely in that one colour then this is the perfect solution as you can add a border or a rug effect or a little focal point wherever you like to add your own personal touch to your design scheme.