David Salisbury Company Blog

Perhaps one of the virtues of us all spending more time at home is the opportunity to eat together as families more frequently. If you are not already fully utilising using your dining room, or whether perhaps it needs updating, here is our round up of 10 orangery dining room design ideas to inspire you.

The middle of Winter might not seem the most inspirational of times to think about refreshing and improving your home but January is often seen as the best month to plan these types of project for the year ahead, especially if you are considering an extension such as orangery or garden room.

Welcome to our first Blog of the New Year – a year that has clearly not started as we would have wished. As we adjust to Lockdown life once again, this time during the colder Winter months, we are going to be spending even more time in our homes.

While this theme might seem familiar, after the events of the past nine months, we have taken a look at some of the home design trends that are being forecast for the year ahead.

For obvious reasons, this year will be one that most of us will want to move on from. The pandemic has brought about and accelerated changes that we could not have foreseen at the start of the year. Whilst looking forward might be preferable, we thought we would take a moment to round up some of our news highlights of 2020: a year when our homes and gardens became even more important to us.

The meaning of the term ‘bespoke’ has changed over the years but perhaps remains the best way of describing the nature of the orangeries we design and manufacture here at David Salisbury. The adjective ‘bespoken’ means "ordered, commissioned, arranged for,” according to Wikipedia, and was first used in the early 17th Century. By convenient coincidence, this is not long after the first orangeries were constructed in Italy and just before they came to the UK.