My Combined Office and Dressing Room (For Now)
This is a continuation of what you might consider my 'before tour' - the rooms that are liveable but are in no way, shape or form, complete! As a little background, in our previous home, the second bedroom was my office and the third small box room was my dressing...
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Back Garden: First Look and What We’ve Done So Far
I know I've shared plenty of rooms with you so far in our new home including a full tour when we first moved in but one thing I haven't shown in any detail is our back garden. When we first viewed the house, it was December and Shrewsbury was completely covered with...
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Design-obsessed DIYer, Award-Winning UK Interior Design Blogger, Freelance Writer, Crazy Cat Lady.
Summer Picnic: How to Style It and What to Serve
If there is one thing I absolutely adore about the warmer weather we've been having lately, it's being able to eat alfresco. I'm not sure if it appeals to our primal instincts but enjoying a meal with friends or family in the great outdoors is definitely one of life's...
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How to Create the Perfect Guest Bedroom
As you probably are already aware, we moved into our home around 2 months ago now. In that time, we've hosted 7 visitors and 5 of those were overnight stays. After not having a dedicated guest bedroom for years, you can say it's been a steep learning curve to make...
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1 Glam Living Room – 3 Different Budgets
I know everyone out there has a different budget. There's plenty of you who are hard-core bargain hunters and others who are totally happy with saving up for the occasional splurge while looking out for the best prices for everything else. And of course, there are...
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My Combined Office and Dressing Room (For Now)
This is a continuation of what you might consider my 'before tour' - the rooms that are liveable but are in no way, shape or form, complete! As a little background, in our previous home, the second bedroom was my office and the third small box room was my dressing...
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My fantasy home office and what a psychologist said about it!
A few months ago, before we'd even moved into our home, I was contacted by Made.com to see if I wanted to take part in a little psychological experiment. No, they weren't going mess with me Darren Brown-style but they did want me to pull a home office space together...
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How to Create the Perfect Guest Bedroom
As you probably are already aware, we moved into our home around 2 months ago now. In that time, we've hosted 7 visitors and 5 of those were overnight stays. After not having a dedicated guest bedroom for years, you can say it's been a steep learning curve to make...
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A Message to Straight Men: It’s Cool to Like Interior Design
Before I started my blog and when it was still in its infancy, I worked in marketing. And in marketing, you are told that you should always have your 'ideal customer' in mind when advertising just about anything. You will go so far as to create personas in marketing...
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ASOS Are Now Selling Homewares: Here Are My Favourites
I don't know how it was that I discovered that buried deep within the fashion stock of ASOS (admittedly, one of my go-to's any time I need anything fashion-related) was a little section on homewares. Now, I'm a bit of a sucker for anything offering free shipping and...
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Simba Luxe Mattress Review: Can you get a luxury mattress in a box?
I shared our guest bedroom mini-makeover with you a couple of weeks ago and I'm happy to say that since then, we've managed to replace the emergency blow-up bed with a proper mattress and frame. It had always been our intention to move our existing mattress into that...
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My Go-To Healthy Breakfast: Nutty Porridge Oats with Banana and Dried Fruit
I did say quite a while back that I wanted to start sharing some of my healthier recipes here on Swoon Worthy, uploaded two recipes (here and here) and then never did it again. Whoops. Food blogging, as it turns out, is actually more difficult than I realised. I mean,...
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Carving Out Calm in Chaos: 6 Ways to Relax When You’re Stressed Out
We all deal with varying levels of stress these days. From major life upheavals to the smallest annoyance, it infiltrates our lives on an everyday basis. I admit the last few months have been a bit more stressful than most as we navigated our way through the UK's...
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DIY Wood Wick Candles with Soy Wax, Essential Oils and Free Printable Labels!
So somehow in between packing, I decided I really wanted to do a little DIY. It's been ages since I've done one and I've been absolutely itching to try out wood wicks for my candle-making. Now, if you follow me on Instagram or if you've read my blog for a while,...
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Blogger Tips: How to Create Sponsored Content That Doesn’t Suck
It's been a while since I've done a Blogger Tips post and while I'm well aware that many of those who read my blog are not bloggers, I do think sometimes my posts about blogging might be informative to you too. There's a lot of misinformation, distrust and ignorance...
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Should There Be a ‘Code of Ethics’ for Bloggers?
Long ago, when I first started my blog back in 2010, things were simpler. There was no Pinterest, there was no Instagram. There were no emails from companies wanting to work with me as an influencer. In fact, the whole concept of an 'influencer' wasn't even something...
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Blogger Tips: 8 Tips To Creating a Better Work/Life Balance
Let's start off with a bit of a disclaimer for this post. Do I have a perfect work/life balance? Absolutely not. The truth is, that balance isn't always possible on an everyday basis. I don't always succeed. But after nearly 3 years of being a freelancer and...
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