I thought I'd give you a little sneak peak of the new dining room paint colour with a post about my mantle.  We inherited the mantle from the previous owners.  It's not what I would have chosen personally but we are on a tight budget and making do with what we have. ...

As I alluded to my last post, I have gone ahead and painted my dining room a deep grey.  I chose Dulux Night Jewels 3 which looks so beautifully rich, it has taken the room to a different level.  With the newly painted white doors and trim, it already looks a million...

Finally finally finally we've completed the dining room doors.  Ok, so it's not really a 'Big' reveal, more of a medium sized one but we're finally here. You may remember from this post that when we moved in, the doors in my dining room looked like this: Door to the...

Update April 2013... Want to see the final dining room and what I went with?  Click here. My dining room has a quite unusual feature. That quite unusual feature is a 37" wall-mounted lcd television. I know it sounds horrid and I'm sure that it's not the 'done' thing...

We turned the key for the first time in our house just over 7 weeks ago.  It is hard looking around and still seeing so many unfinished rooms and so many unfinished projects.  Of course, how could I possibly expect that the whole house should be gorgeous, sparkling...

To be fair to Mick Jagger & Co., I'd ACTUALLY like to paint it black.  All over the blogosphere, there is an ever-growing love of black interior doors.  It certainly adds sophistication to the plain white door and can undoubtedly make your hardware pop. Like the...

Honestly, if Laura Ashley needed a bitch, I would gladly brush her hair, tell her she's pretty and bring her tea and biscuits. I was just looking at the new catalogue and noticed these babies: Image courtesy of Laura Ashley In the catalogue, they are listed at £45 per...