How Lighting Can Impact Your Kitchen Design

Oct 11, 2021 | Decorating Advice, Kitchen | 25 comments

If you’ve followed my blog for a few years, you’ll know that one of the biggest renovation projects we tackled was our kitchen. Ripping out the entire back of our house, adding a small extension, moving one wall and entirely removing another, adding a...

Christmas Decorating in My Kitchen and Dining Room

Dec 18, 2019 | Dining Room, Kitchen | 5 comments

I feel like I’m usually much better organised in the run-up to Christmas but this year, I definitely feel as though I’m chasing my tail. Recent national events have left me feeling a bit out of sorts and emotionally exhausted and all I really want to do is...

Renovation Complete: The Reveal of Our Green Pink and Gold Kitchen

Sep 23, 2019 | Kitchen, Videos | 51 comments

We finally made it, folks. After 6 months of dust, tradesmen and chaos, I’m finally sharing the results of what has been rattling around in my brain for nearly 2 years. I’m not even really sure where to start but I suppose we’ll go back to the...

Pretty Utility: New Bits for the New Kitchen

Sep 11, 2019 | Kitchen | 6 comments

As you are probably already aware, we are just at the very tail end of a rather large renovation project that has taken most of the year – knocking down walls, adding a small extension and creating a brand new open-plan kitchen-diner. It’s been a hell of a...

Renovation Diaries: We’re Nearly There and Kitchen Units are In!

Aug 21, 2019 | Kitchen | 15 comments

So I feel like a lot has happened since my last renovation update even though we really only laid the flooring a couple of weeks ago but at this point, it might as well been a year ago because of everything that’s happened since that point. Right now, as I...

Designing My Dream Kitchen with John Lewis of Hungerford

Jul 8, 2019 | Kitchen | 29 comments

I debated whether to share the design of our kitchen on the blog. I didn’t want to ruin any ‘surprises’ for when it’s finally installed but at the same time, I do love reading about other people’s journeys in creating spaces they love....