How to Prepare Your Garden for Summer

How to Prepare Your Garden for Summer

This post contains a paid advertising promotion for Very. While the transition from Winter to Spring seemed long and rather wet, I'm happy to say that late Spring has come up trumps with dry, sunny weather and temps in the late teens and low 20s for the last couple of...

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How to Create a Relaxing Space at Home

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...

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My Top Tips for Decorating Your Christmas Living Room

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...

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Updating the Front of Our Home (Finally!)

Updating the Front of Our Home (Finally!)

I know, it's been quite some time since my last post but I figured this was a makeover I was too damn pleased about not to stick on here along with a bit more explanation and images than what I can share over on Instagram. And well, if your summer plans include...

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How Lighting Can Impact Your Kitchen Design

How Lighting Can Impact Your Kitchen Design

If you've followed my blog for a few years, you'll know that one of the biggest renovation projects we tackled was our kitchen. Ripping out the entire back of our house, adding a small extension, moving one wall and entirely removing another, adding a large skylight...

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Summer Deck Refresh with Boho Accents

Summer Deck Refresh with Boho Accents

I thought I'd pop on and share a little update I've been working on over the last few weeks as I've managed to give the deck a bit of a new look for this summer in our back garden. This little area has changed a few times since we've lived here but when we first moved...

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Going Low-Key: My 2020 Christmas Living Room & Tree

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...

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The 6 Best Renovation Decisions We’ve Made So Far

The 6 Best Renovation Decisions We’ve Made So Far

As of the end of March, we had lived in our home in Shrewsbury for 2 years and while we haven't actually done as much work to our home as I'd have liked this year due to world events, I wanted to chat about the things we have managed to complete that have had the...

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A Few Cute Additions to the Guest Bedroom

A Few Cute Additions to the Guest Bedroom

I have to admit, one of the things I've really missed about the restrictions we currently have in place is that I haven't had any overnight guests for months. It's something I really love and finally having a dedicated guest bedroom to provide to friends and family...

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Transforming the Neglected Back Facade of Our House!

Transforming the Neglected Back Facade of Our House!

The back of our house has been a bugbear of mine for quite a long time. When we'd first moved in 2 years ago, it was certainly liveable (I knew we'd eventually want to repaint it) but it was only after we put in the small extension for the kitchen that the situation...

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Plans for the Bathroom Refresh (Phase 2)

Plans for the Bathroom Refresh (Phase 2)

You might recall when we moved into our home (nearly 2 years ago now - how fast does time fly?!), within weeks of moving in, I decided to update our bathroom. I knew a bit of paint and some accessorising would make a big difference to the space without having to spend...

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My Christmas Living Room & Signing Off til the New Year

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,...

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Dreaming and Scheming: Planning the Utility Room

Dreaming and Scheming: Planning the Utility Room

This may very well turn into a rambling stream-of-consciousness post because I've got way too many things going on in my mind and what better place to put them all down than my blog? And then you get to have a little peek into how my brain works which, to be fair,...

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My Living Room Midi-Makeover Reveal in Autumn Colours

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...

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