More Tweaking: Guest Bedroom Bargains

Mar 21, 2011 | Home Office | 10 comments

I introduced you to my guest bedroom in a recent post where I’ve made a few bargain changes (totalling less than £100) to take the room from “a room with a bed and a desk” to a “guest bedroom with a desk” and eventually hope to take it to...

New Heights: Adventures in Ripping Down the Kitchen Ceiling

Mar 19, 2011 | Kitchen | 16 comments

I mentioned in this post that we’d made the rather delicious discovery that our short, stout, boxy kitchen had a false ceiling and as the kitchen was our next big project, we figured we might as well remove it to gain those extra precious inches in room height...

Light Up Light Up: As if I had a choice…

Mar 17, 2011 | Kitchen | 10 comments

Sorry that was a really poor play on this song…(And no this ISN’T the bloody Leona Lewis version, it’s the GOOD one from Snow Patrol dammit.) Now that that’s out of the way, I’m actually going to talk kitchen lighting.  I reckon I...

WTF Moment: Cabbage Chair

Mar 16, 2011 | Uncategorized | 7 comments

Apparently this was designed from the scraps of pleated paper that is produced in mass amounts during the process of making pleated fabric, and usually abandoned as an unwanted by-product.Start peeling…The designers state:  “This primitive design...

Take Me Away: London Calling

Mar 15, 2011 | Travel | 15 comments

Can I just start by saying a huge thank you to everyone who commented on my guest bedroom post.  You are all way too kind, especially as the room is no where near done.  It’s given me incentive to continue to get it truly swoon worthy someday.  I’m so...

Be Our Guest: Inspiration in Red & White

Mar 11, 2011 | Home Office | 32 comments

I hinted in this post that I was working a wee bit on a much neglected room of late.  That room being our guest bedroom/office.  As Sarah from Modern Country Style is giving us a linky party to attend with Inspiration as it’s theme, I thought I’d...