We love Urban Splash’s Park Hill video, featuring interviews with Studio Egret West’s Christophe Egret and Hawkins/Brown’s David Bickle, along with views from inside the NoChintz show apartment.

NoChintz were proud to help organise the first Manchester Design Symposium at MMU, with The Design Initiative, bringing world renowned designers such as Tom Dorresteijn, Jonathan Barnbrook and Bruno Maag to discuss ‘The Value of Design’ in front of a packed audience of both professionals and students. The afternoon was a great success with plans for an even bigger symposium planned for next year! Read more here…

Photo via Eye Magazine Blog

After a packed day of inspiring talks, the NoChintz team gave their own short talk on the subject inspiration over at the Deaf Institute for ‘Mini BLAB’ a Northern Digitals event held by Matt Booth alongside other Manchester creatives from Magnetic North and Creative Lynx to name a few. Read the full write up over at Eye Magazine’s blog…

Excitement all round here in the NoChintz studio as we find out we have been selected by CBBC to work with them on up to four episodes of their brand new children’s show “I Want My Own Room!”

Our very own designer Becci Sharkey will work with children to help them create their dream rooms – whether that’s their bedroom or another area in their home – which will become their own private space.  She will assist in developing the children’s own ideas and dreams and help turn them into reality. … read more

Over the last week we’ve been appearing in press stories all over the internet since our involvement with CBBC’s upcoming programme ‘I Want My Own Room’. Nothing, however, could have prepared us for the strangest article in the dubiously named ‘Beauty Interior’.

Alarms bells should have started ringing when we saw their strap line: ‘Make Your Interior Beauty’ but the hilarious article that follows is absolutely worth a read! N.B. I am not actually an engineer…
CBBC recruits NoChintz engineer Becci

Meet a new TV star with designs on improving a demeanour of children’s bedrooms.

Becci Sharkey, a engineer with Manchester-based interior pattern agency, No Chintz, has been comparison by CBBC to work with them on adult to 4 episodes of a code new children’s show, we Want My Own Room!

Ms Sharkey will work with children to assistance them emanate their dream bedrooms – either that’s their bedroom or another area in their home – that will turn their possess private space.

She said: “I am unequivocally looking brazen to operative with CBBC on this project. The rest of a group during NoChintz are already ripping with ideas and we can’t wait to get going.”

NoChintz’s Manchester-based studio offers pattern services opposite a full spectrum of residential, blurb and convenience sectors.

The association was set adult in 2007 and is owned and run by Natalie Gray, Dominic Beardwell and Lucy Goddard.

Filming with CBBC is due to start early in a summer.

Check out the actual article here…

Here at NoChintz we are celebrating our most successful year to date as we have trebled our turnover to £1.1 million in 2010 compared with £350,000 in 2009. This achievement is the result of a series of new client wins over the past six months including JD Sports, Canterbury of New Zealand, 3M and Miller Homes.

Dominic Beardwell, director, NoChintz said: “2010 was an incredible year for NoChintz; it exceeded our expectations in many ways. Trebling our turnover because of our new clients, and repeat work from many of our existing clients, has also enabled us to recruit four new members to the team. I expect that we will double our turnover in 2011.

“NoChintz is growing and beginning to move into new areas beyond our original interior design proposition. We are marketing and managing freelance office space Studio 17 at 12 Hilton Street, and we’ve formed a working partnership with Rejuvenate to work with other businesses to help them build their brands.”

In 2010 NoChintz become a part of the Mill Co. Community, a virtual mill and online community of creative collaborators. Through introductions made by being part of this community, NoChintz have been working closely with both JD Sports and Canterbury of New Zealand.

NoChintz has won contracts to design three new stores for a JD Sports brand, the first of which opened in Hull just before Christmas and the remaining stores will open in the next few months. The growing relationship with Bury based JD Sports started in spring last year as NoChintz designed the stand for Canterbury of New Zealand at international trade show Bread and Butter held in Berlin. Canterbury launched a new fashion range at the show, and it was so successful that NoChintz will be back on board with Canterbury for the next Bread & Butter being held later this month.

Following a commission from Mill Co. NoChintz also designed a pop-up space made from a shipping container to help Canterbury promote its brand. It launched in Edinburgh in early December and we are now working in partnership with Mill Co. to propose rolling out this project in 2011 where it is intended that it will visit cities across the UK.

Miller Homes is the latest property developer to call on us to design new show homes and a marketing suite for its Infusion development at Moss Side in Manchester. Argent has used NoChintz expertise for its commercial office scheme, the Hive on Lever Street, in the Manchester’s Northern Quarter. And NoChintz continue to work with Urban Splash.

NoChintz director Lucy Goddard has been building the NoChintz Agency to help promote and market furniture by Northwest designers. Over the August Bank Holiday Weekend, NoChintz Agency took over the former Adidas store in Manchester’s Triangle shopping centre to display the work of some of our designers and also took part in the London Design Festival held in September. NoChintz Agency is also the sole UK agent for Barcelona based ABR.

This year has also seen NoChintz design more interiors for temporary spaces such as the VIP area for Pride and the North Pole Bar at Cathedral Gardens.

See what the Place North West and the Manchester Evening News have been saying about our success!

Our beautiful NoChintz horse trotted over to The Hive this morning for his debut photo-shoot. Shot on the 4th floor terrace, our designer Sanjay Prasad managed to get us a few shots for our blog…and catch his good side.

NoChintz have designed and installed brand new show apartments for Urban Splash in the exclusive Albert Mill development. The apartments have made a real impact and received their own double page spread in this weeks MEN. Newcastle based Deadgood have supported the install by allowing us the loans of their amazing ‘Wire lamps’ by Ziglam & Brook. The apartments launch on Monday and are available for viewing…