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...

Transforming Our Non-Working Dining Room Fireplace

Sep 4, 2019 | Dining Room | 17 comments

Some call it a non-working fireplace, I call it a ‘hole in the wall’. The place where there was at one time a fireplace and at some point in time, someone (tragically) decided to rip it out, plaster it up and call it good. I’ve seen quite a lot of...

My £25 & 3.5 hour Guest Bedroom Mini Makeover

Sep 2, 2019 | Guest Bedroom | 20 comments

It started on Thursday morning. I sometimes have a little browse of my local listings on Facebook marketplace – I’ve been keeping an eye out for a vintage mirror to use for our dining room (no luck there) and some bits for the guest bedroom seeing as the...

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...

DIY: Laying Engineered Oak Parquet Flooring

Aug 12, 2019 | Dining Room, DIY | 14 comments

It’s been my dream to have parquet flooring long before we moved into our current house. Back in 2010, when we moved into our previous home, one of the very first projects we took on was laying new pine flooring in our living room. At that time, I loved the look...