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How Lighting Can Impact Your Kitchen Design
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 large skylight...
Summer Deck Refresh with Boho Accents
I thought I'd pop on and share a little update I've been working on over the last few weeks as I've managed to give the deck a bit of a new look for this summer in our back garden. This little area has changed a few times since we've lived here but when we first moved...
How to Create an Organic Colour Block Wall
This post contains a paid advertising feature by Dulux UK. If you're looking for a fun and easy way to add some interest to your walls with colour blocking, my post today will share exactly how I created this bold eye-catching feature wall in my bedroom. Thanks to...
Why Samsung The Frame TV 2020 Should Be in Every Interior Lover’s Home
The following contains an advertising feature for Very who have kindly sponsored this post. Well, it's finally happened. I have been waiting for years now (3 1/2 to be exact) to update my living room with the Samsung Frame TV before I felt like it was really complete...
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Design Advice
If you’ve ever stared into your room and knew something wasn’t quite right but you didn’t know how to fix it, then you’re in the right place. Long ago, I felt exactly the same. I had a million ideas but no idea how to execute them.
With my advice posts, I’m spilling all those interior design secrets that took me years of trial and error to learn. Check out all my how-to’s, tips and tricks here.
How Lighting Can Impact Your Kitchen Design
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 large skylight...
How to Create an Inner Retreat at Home with Plants and Flowers
The following post contains a paid advertising feature for Funnyhowflowersdothat.co.uk and Thejoyofplants.co.uk. I think just about every other email I've received this year starts off with something about 'this crazy situation' or 'unprecedented times'. We all know...
How I Organised My (Tiny) Pantry
Over the last month or so, I've finally finished organising my pantry and when I asked on Instagram Stories if you wanted me to share the results when it was completed, it was a resounding 95% who said yes... I admit I go a little weak-kneed when I see a beautifully...
My Home
My blog is a place I love to share my own home and there are a wealth of posts about the changes and updates we’ve made both in our current and our previous home with all the lessons I’ve learned along the way.
I catalogue our entire journey of each room through its evolution and so if you love to have a nosy around other people’s homes (and why wouldn’t you?!), then check out all my posts to see what we’re working on next.
How Lighting Can Impact Your Kitchen Design
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 large skylight...
Summer Deck Refresh with Boho Accents
I thought I'd pop on and share a little update I've been working on over the last few weeks as I've managed to give the deck a bit of a new look for this summer in our back garden. This little area has changed a few times since we've lived here but when we first moved...
Budget Refresh: Old Kitchen to Updated Utility and Candle Studio
Back in February, I dreamt I'd moved into an old dilapidated apartment (or maybe it was a house, I'm not sure) but the kitchen had all this orange pine panelling and strange sliding cupboard doors. It was old and out of date and quite frankly, pretty ugly but in the...
DIY
I’ve been a big fan of do-it-yourself for a long time both for the cost-savings as well as the gleeful satisfaction of a job well done. But if there’s one thing I’m not a fan of, it’s DIYs that look like DIYs. So you won’t be finding that here.
While I’ve had lots of things I’ve tried that haven’t gone exactly to plan, I only share those projects that have been super successful for me. And while I don’t consider myself a super crafty person, I do love creating things that are really easy to do but also create an amazing end result. You’ll find all my most successful ventures into craft and DIY in these posts and happily, no one will ever know you’ve done it yourself until you proudly tell them so – because you’ll want to, trust me.
How to Create an Organic Colour Block Wall
This post contains a paid advertising feature by Dulux UK. If you're looking for a fun and easy way to add some interest to your walls with colour blocking, my post today will share exactly how I created this bold eye-catching feature wall in my bedroom. Thanks to...
DIY Dried Flower Curiosity Cloche
It's no secret that I love the look of dried flowers and grasses - especially as we come into autumn and winter, I just think they work so beautifully with this season. While I adore my plant babies as well as the beauty of fresh flowers, dried flowers will provide a...
How to Make Your Old Victorian Tiles Look Good as New
If you have a Victorian home and you're lucky enough to still have original tiles, you might be wondering how to restore and clean the tiles so they look good again. I wanted to share how I tackled a small Victorian tiled hearth and got the old grimy tiles looking...