The 6 Smartest Design Investments You Should Be Making
I am a big believer in the splurge. I spoke a little bit about those items that are worthwhile investments within my post about mixing high and low. But today, I wanted to go into a little more detail about what I think is worth a little extra cash if you've got some...
How I Organise My Makeup Collection
So you may or may not know that while I'm a total geek when it comes to interiors, I'm a bit of a makeup junkie as well. I can talk about getting the perfect flick on your eyeliner or my favourite foundations until the cows come home. That new palette from Anastasia...
9 Design Rules I Never Break!
I am not much a rule follower. You may be surprised to know that when I was younger, my family were very religious. I was brought up in an environment where there were rules for just about everything - who I was allowed to be friends with, what kind of clothes I could...
How to Mix High End and Low End in Your Home
I think if anyone knows anything about the decorating trick I'm talking about today, it's fashion bloggers. They seem to know exactly how to make a budget work to create a really high-end look without spending silly amounts of money on absolutely everything they are...
Valentine’s Day Romantic Table Setting for Two
I don't really do Valentine's Day. There are a few reasons for this. First, my birthday is in late January, just one short month after Christmas and by the time Valentine's Day rolls around, I always feel like it's a little unfair to expect my partner to spend even...
8 Secrets for a Tidy Home
So let's just be straight up right now. Is my home always "Pinterest perfect"-ly clean? Hell no. I have 3 insane animals running around at all times and a hard-working bloke that works in the automotive industry for goodness sake. However, my home is normally about 15...
Design Lessons I’ve Learned from My Favourite Instagram Accounts
So I am, along with everyone else on the planet, a little obsessed with Instagram. Buried amongst the thousands (millions?) of pictures of coffee with perfect froth on wooden tables and long tanned legs on beds and all the flatlays of beauty products you won't...
How to Use Pinterest To Define Your Personal Style
One of the biggest questions I get from readers and friends alike is how to define their style when they are starting a new decorating project. One day, they are digging Scandinavian style - all striking black, grey and white and natural wood. The next, they are...
How to Create a Glam Christmas Table Setting on a Budget!
Setting the table for Christmas is probably one of my favourite activities because there's almost no such thing as 'too much glam' when it comes to Christmas - okay, in my eyes anyway. It's the one time of year when you can really go big and have fun with it. But...
Bedroom Reveal: How to Transition a Room from Summer to Winter!
As you know, I thrive on change in my home. It makes a space feel energised and new without even having to pick up and move. I also realised recently that I have started using colour in my home with a little more restraint. So with Autumn here and Winter hot on its...
My Formula For Styling a Bar Cart
I want to talk to you today about bar cart styling but first a bit of psychology. You know those silly online tests you can take to determine whether you are more 'right-brained' or 'left-brained'? I always come out nearly equal - 50% left brain, 50% right brain. Not...
How to Arrange Flowers and Make Them Last Longer!
As I mentioned in my post on Friday, I recently attended a flower arranging workshop in London with Bloomon, the flower subscription service, at the offices of the mega homes site, Houzz and today, I'm going to be sharing a few things I learned to not only make your...
10 Ways to Make a Dark Room Brighter!
I grew up on a densely wooded lot in a tiny town in Pennsylvania. Wayne often jokes that I grew up on Endor - ya know the forest moon on Return of the Jedi? Yeah, it was a bit like that - without the speeder bikes or Ewoks but with lots of playing in the woods, fort...
My Home Style Blog Hop: Before & After
When Stephanie of Casa Watkins asked if I'd like to participate in her My Home Style blog hop and I heard that it was a 'before and after' edition, I knew that both old and new readers alike would enjoy it as much as I would taking part. Seeing a room transformed is...
How to Quickly Update a Room Without Spending Money
September has always been a transitional month to me. Perhaps it harks back to school days with a fresh set of pencils, a new Trapper Keeper (does anyone else remember those?) and a few new clothes to start off the school year. Despite no longer having 6 or so weeks...
2017 Interior Design Trends – My Predictions!
Trends are funny things, aren't they? They can excite us or annoy us, make us impulsively part with our hard-earned cash or they can inspire us to try something new. As someone who is deeply invested in the interior design world, I like to keep a watchful eye on...
The 10 Biggest Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them!
So let's just be clear from the off. I have made PLENTY of design mistakes. Loads. And guess what? Because I'm a blogger and have been for the last 6 years, you can go trawling through my archives and you can see just how many I've made. Oh yeah. Loads. Stuff I look...
How to Break Out of Your Decorating Rut!
I'm sure I don't have to tell you how common it really is. Your decorating plans are coming along, you are going in a direction you feel confident about, you already have a few things picked out and then suddenly, it hits. A decorator's block. There's something that's...
9 Things I Learned to Keep My Home From Going to the Dogs*
*and Cats! As you probably know if you've been reading Swoon Worthy for any length of time, it's that we love our animals. We have two cats and one dog and the house is basically a little crazy at all times. They are very much like our children - sometimes loveable,...
My Formula for a Perfect Coffee Table Vignette
As both Wayne and I have been battling colds for the past week, we decided to take it easy this weekend and give ourselves a break from the last 8 or so weeks of constant DIY on the dining room. The only things we did were hang a blind and install the door handles and...
How to Create a Good Feature Wall with Wallpaper
Apparently the media and everyone else out there would like you believe the feature wall is dead. Buried, done, finito. Well, I'm here to tell you that they are wrong. Yep, standing on my little internet-style platform to say absolutely that you can still do a feature...
My 5 Favourite Second-Hand Scores
I always say that the tighter your budget, the more creative you have to get when it comes to decorating your home. And this is probably why I adore searching through eBay, charity/thrift shops and second-hand sites to find the things that fill my home. Over the...
How Good Design Can Make You Sleep Better
I admit, I'm not the best sleeper. Within literally 2 minutes of Wayne's head hitting the pillow, I can hear rhythmic breathing that tells me he's already in dreamland while I lay wistfully awake at his side increasingly feeling more and more bitter that he has this...
How to Get Off Your Ass and Start Your Decorating Project
I am just as guilty as the next person for putting off projects around the house. I use a myriad of excuses (I don't have any money, it's too cold to paint, we have plans on that one day the week before and I'll still be tired) but the truth is, most of the time the...