Christmas Decorating in My Kitchen and Dining Room
I feel like I'm usually much better organised in the run-up to Christmas but this year, I definitely feel as though I'm chasing my tail. Recent national events have left me feeling a bit out of sorts and emotionally exhausted and all I really want to do is plunge...
Renovation Complete: The Reveal of Our New Taupe and Pink Dining Room
So it's our second reveal of the week but today, it's the turn of the dining room! If you haven't yet seen the kitchen reveal, then I'd encourage you to look at that one first. We spent the last 6 months tearing out the back of the house, building a small extension...
Transforming Our Non-Working Dining Room Fireplace
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 them in my time and...
DIY: Laying Engineered Oak Parquet Flooring
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 of...
Dining Room Mood Board Reveal
As things go with almost any renovation project, over the last 8 or so months, my entire focus has been on the extension and then the new kitchen. As a result, I feared (for a while there anyway) that the adjoining dining room may end up being an afterthought at best...
My Christmas Dining Room (and a Pink Christmas Tree!)
On Monday, I shared my Christmas tablescape and within that post, you will have seen a bit of the dining room as it's decorated for Christmas. One of the reasons I was so desperate to give this room a bit of a refresh (you can see that here) was because I wanted to be...
My 2018 Christmas Dinner Table Setting
I adore doing Christmas table settings. Actually, I just enjoy doing table settings in general but at Christmas, I feel like I can really pull out the stops and have a bit of fun with it. Because if you can't go all out on the decor at Christmas, when can you? While...
Budget Dining Room Refresh Reveal (in a weekend!)
About a week and a half ago, I came to the realisation that my dining room had turned into a dumping ground. From fabric, tiles, paint and flooring samples to bits of decor and art I had no place for, the space was littered with the discarded, unloved and disorganised...
How I’ve Styled the Dining Room (For Now)
Okay, let's just start off this post by saying, I'm not happy with this room. Not really even as just a 'temporary situation'. There are a whole host of reasons why this is not even close to what I want this space to eventually look like, starting with the fact that...
My Christmas Dining Room
While I'm fully aware that there are a whole bunch of bloggers currently showing off their gorgeous Christmas decorations, buying guides and tips for the holidays, I feel like I'm really failing when it comes to the holiday season this year. The truth is that every...
Black White Gold and Green Autumn Tablescape with Venus Flowers
I love a good table setting, there's no doubt about that. I have been itching to do one for a while now and considering that we're heading now into the cosiest months of the year, I wanted to do one inspired by some of my favourite Autumn colours. I also found that...
How I Style: Living Room & Dining Room Then & Now
I thought this might be a fun little look back. The thing is, I wouldn't consider myself any kind of an expert when it comes to styling or decor by any means. I mess around with things, try to figure out what looks right and attempt little short cuts and formulas that...
Going Bespoke: Marble & Brass Dining Room Table
Do you remember my blog post about things I think are a worthwhile investment in your home? One of those things was a dining room table and/or chairs. The way I see it, the table takes up a heck of a lot of the visual space in a dining room and so you might as well...
Spring Updates in the Dining Room
So I mentioned that I'd swapped a few things around in the dining room when I shared a few updates in the living room last month. The biggest one: deciding on a whim to swap the rugs between the two rooms. I'd meant to show you the result of that swap soon after that...
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...
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...
UK Home Blog Hop: My Christmas Dining Room
Well it's December and so I'm officially allowed to talk about Christmas! Yes the C word is finally allowed and while it seems to come earlier and earlier every single year, I'm actually a little later than usual to share my Christmas decor. Today, however, is a...
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...
Eclectic Boho Glam Table Setting with Halsted Design
What do you get when you combine animal prints, mixing patterns, bold colour combos, boho accents, a dollop of glam, a bit of vintage and gold accents? You'd get quintessential Swoon Worthy, of course. But what do you get when you pull all that together into a...
DIY Hanging Planter – From Industrial to Glam!
You may recall that recently I was invited to Rose & Grey's new showroom in Altrincham. Whilst I was there, I spotted a cute hanging planter in the shop. It was quite industrial in it's design (which as you probably know by now, isn't really my kind of thing) but...
Blogger Stylin’ Home Tour Summer 2016
Happy Summer lovely peeps! And I can actually say that because after what proved to be a rather damp and cold summer of 2015 which was followed by a rather damp and cold autumn and and a rather damp cold winter here in the North West of the UK (sensing a pattern?), it...
VIDEO: How to Create a Faux Marble Shelf
You all know my obsession with marble-effect contact paper or sticky back plastic as it's known here in the UK. I have used it throughout my home for various projects - you can see my marble topped chest of drawers, the floating vanity we created for the dressing room...
Dining Room – All the Sources PLUS a Giveaway!
So first I have to say I have been blown away by the response on my dining room reveal. Honestly, my head was in the clouds all day yesterday reading your comments on the blog and across social media! I'm so excited you seem to like it! I know my tastes are a little...
The REVEAL of My Eclectic Boho Glam Dining Room!
You have no idea how excited I am to finally be sharing this room with you. And I know everyone is just gonna scroll down to the pics (because yeah, I'd be doing that too) but since early February when we started the work on this room, not one inch of the space hasn't...