How to Create a Relaxing Space at Home
Our homes, by their very nature, are meant to promote our comfort. A place to return to after a long day, a sanctuary where we can kick off our shoes and truly be ourselves. And while that concept of home may be true for us if we're lucky, the reality is that it's...
My Top Tips for Decorating Your Christmas Living Room
The following post contains a paid advertising feature for Very. I have a confession to make! For the last two years when December rolled around, I haven't felt particularly Christmass-y. I didn't really fancy going all out with decorating and so I essentially put up...
Why Samsung The Frame TV 2020 Should Be in Every Interior Lover’s Home
The following contains an advertising feature for Very who have kindly sponsored this post. Well, it's finally happened. I have been waiting for years now (3 1/2 to be exact) to update my living room with the Samsung Frame TV before I felt like it was really complete...
Going Low-Key: My 2020 Christmas Living Room & Tree
It's been a funny ol' year hasn't it? Not funny as in 'haha' obviously just a strange beast. In years past, I would have fully thrown myself into the Christmas prep, planning my tree, planning my dining table, planning DIYs, buying ALL the bits and pieces to make all...
My Christmas Living Room & Signing Off til the New Year
So the Christmas tree has been dressed, the presents have been wrapped and we're less than a week away from the big day. For me, Christmas is always more than just one day. It's all the planning and prepping that goes on before, seeing the twinkling lights in town,...
My Living Room Midi-Makeover Reveal in Autumn Colours
I mentioned we were going to be replacing the flooring and the sofas in the living room on my Instagram not long ago, referring to it as a 'mini-refresh'. Well, I was very quickly corrected by someone who said, "A mini-refresh is some new cushions!" Ha! And I realised...
The Reveal of Our Living Room Refresh
So as I mentioned in this post, I decided rather last-minute that somehow, just before work was meant to start in our new extension and kitchen and dining room renovation, I was going to squeeze in a bit of a makeover for our living room. I have big plans for the...
Refreshing Rooms with Something Old, Something New
I think it's a combination of shorter days and the loss of sparkle that Christmas brings, but every year in January, after the Christmas decorations all come down, my home feels a bit flat. What I tend to do is give my spaces a little bit of a shakeup so they feel...
My 2018 Christmas Living Room
It's been quite interesting decorating my home for Christmas this year. It's our first Christmas in this house and while I knew I had plenty of Christmas decor stashed in our loft space for when the time came, I didn't really know how that decor would be used in a...
Living Room Planning and Why We’ve Not Started the Extension
It's been a while since I've just talked about what's going on around here in terms of making progress on the house. I think because Instagram seems to be getting so much focus these days, I tend to chat more about the day-to-day there than I do on my blog but of...
Can You DIY Shutters? (Hint: Yep, You Can)
Long before we even found our home, while we were still living in our previous home on the outskirts of Manchester, I had a dream. And that dream was that we would have window shutters. I know, it's a strange one, but bear with me here. I'd seen them on so many homes...
Let There Be Light! Updates in the Living Room
And.... I'm back! So I've had a whirlwind couple of weeks whilst I've been away from the blog - some of it dusty and messy, some of it rather lovely. The week before last, as you may recall, we had the electrics replaced in the living room, master bedroom and hallways...
How I’ve Styled Our Living Room (for now!)
As you probably know, we moved into our new (old!) home just over a week ago now and the first room I knew I wanted to tackle was the living room. In my experience, it's always good to have at least a couple of rooms sorted as quickly as possible when moving house -...
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...
My Stunning Murano Glass Chandelier from Sogni Di Cristallo
I have wanted a Murano Glass chandelier for as long as I can remember. The exquisite skill required to blow these chandeliers is mind-boggling and their beauty is simply unmatched. In fact, I had a 'saved search' on eBay for the longest time, hoping that someone...
My Valentine’s Day “Love Tray”
This is sort of a weird one because I wasn't planning on doing two Valentine's Day posts. My first one - the romantic breakfast table setting - was always on the cards but this one was a little more organic. I was sent an incredibly gorgeous tray by Sweetpea and...
Winter Refresh in the Living Room
My original intention was to share a post on how I basically swapped lots and lots of things around in my home over my break. I often shop my own house when I'm itching for some change and the start of the new year, after the Christmas decor has come down, is normally...
My 2016 Eclectic Boho Glam Christmas Tree and Living Room
Normally, my tree is up by the first week in December. This year, it was the 10th of December before I actually got around to putting mine up - which is SO unlike me. There are quite a few extenuating circumstances around this but to summarise, we've been storing some...
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...
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...
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...
Blogger Stylin’ Home Tours: My Christmas Living Room
I spent this weekend in cosy Christmas rapture! Whilst the winds and rains swept all the remaining leaves from the trees, I was knee-deep in baubles, glitter and greenery. I stuck on Smooth Extra (which plays just Christmas music at this time of year if you didn't...
How to Prepare Your Home for Christmas
I'm teaming up with John Lewis for today's post but as you know, I only work with companies I really love and think you will too! You already know I'm a fan of their wares so it should come as no surprise, I was thrilled to collaborate with them to offer a few tips...