December is finally here, and it’s time to start planning for and enjoying the festive season. Decorating the house for Christmas can be one of the most fun tasks of the month- from putting up the tree in the living room to wrapping tinsel around the stairs: it’s something which allows us to really let those creative juices flow. Image credit As the end of the year is approaching, many of us may be starting…
If you’re a homeowner, chances are that at some point during your lifetime you’ll undertake a major home renovation project. While some people enjoy the process of planning and watching their home transform, others aren’t as keen to jump into remodeling, no matter how necessary the project may be. No matter which group you’re in, it’s undeniable that at the end of the day, adding value to your home and creating a beautiful new space…
I daydream a fair amount about what my future ‘forever’ house will look like, and share a lot of those dreams on my blog, but one thing I’ve not written about really is what sort of Kitchen I’d like. It’s odd, I used to look at peoples outfits and handbags on instagram and pinterest etc, now it’s interior shots that I swoon over! It’s funny how fast interior styles go in and out of fashion,…
Revamping your home’s interior might seem like hard work. Hour after hour spent with a paint roller in your hand might not be your idea of heaven, but updating the look of the living room, bedroom and bathroom isn’t as taxing as you think! Another myth about decorating is that it can be expensive. Forking out hundreds of pounds on new flooring or a shiny new bookcase in this day and age will seem like a…
Let’s face it, nobody likes talking about cleaning, or even dealing with it really! But family life generally means you have a fair amount of excess waste and dirty clothes on a daily basis, despite trying to limit it by recycling and re-wearing! As Athena nears school age where she will be wearing uniform daily, and probably dirtying it daily too it’s suddenly occurred to me that I’m going to be doing a lot more washing,…
I’ve written before about wanting to get the kitchen finished now we’ve been here a year (exactly a year last week in fact!) and we’re almost done with the kitchen! We had two windows replaced just after christmas for double glazed ones and it’s made a huge difference to the room. One was a big bay window which we’ve kept the curtains on but the two smaller windows now have matching roman blinds thanks to…
I am probably jumping the gun a little here seeing as we’ve not actually started work on our bathroom (though here are some of my ideas) but it’s always more fun to plan the pretty things rather than the functional things, right? As I’ve said before our bathroom is big but dingy with only a small window at one end so not a lot of natural light. So for that reason I want to brighten…
Now we’ve got our kitchen finished I suppose we should move onto the next project in the house, the bathroom. It’s currently a pretty boring room with a lot of potential to become a really nice space but it needs a lot of work. The ceiling is a bit damp in places as there is no ventilation other than the window, so we need to put an extractor fan in somewhere, which shouldn’t be too…
