What paint colour is the living room? What colour have you painted the kitchen cabinets? What colour is the bookcase?
These are just a few of the questions I receive about paint colours in our home so I thought it would be helpful to share the updated colour schemes in each of our rooms. Buckle up, and get a notebook because there are many!
Read MoreThis transformation has been a long time coming as I first started work on the girls’ shared bedroom over three years ago now - so just a note to any parents out there beating themselves up for slow progress within their own homes, it really is a long and exhausting process. You’ll get there in the end I promise!
Read MoreI recently came across a bedside table that I can’t stop thinking about. I find good bedside tables hard to find and this one ticked all the boxes for me - solid wood, drawers to hide clutter, pretty handles and a scallop edge - however, it costs a cool £1295 which is totally out of my budget.
In fact, the two bedside tables we have in our bedroom were £10 from a charity shop at the tip and the other free from Facebook Marketplace.
If you haven’t had any success with second hand (and I know it can be particularly hard if you’re after a pair of tables,) then here are my top picks from the high street which are, thankfully, closer to budget than the dream piece. Maybe that will be one to recreate in the future with an upcycle, but for now it will just be saved away under ‘one day’.
Read MoreIn an age when home improvement has never been more popular and diy never more accessible than now, many are turning towards products that will add character, setting our homes apart from others.
Amongst many of the trends that have been accelerated by the number of growing home renovation tv shows and interior inspiration online is wall panelling. Whether it’s the more traditional intricate moulding, tongue and groove panelling or a more modern fluted or ribbed panelling, this option provides your walls (or furniture) with interest and personality without the commitment to pattern that wallpaper requires.
Our bedroom is relatively small with a sloping ceiling on one side and two doors and a window on the other walls, resulting in only one possible location for the bed. I imagine this is pretty common for most people with ‘normal’ houses and whilst most people would choose to create a focal point behind the bed, when you have a sloping ceiling behind the bed, that is hard to do.
Read MoreWant to win a £400 voucher for the Cotswold Company? Read on to find out how...Whilst we are all spending a lot of time in our homes lately, I am sure many of you are noticing new areas that aren't working so well, or wanting to finish corners that have been ignored for too long. As we all live, work and play in one space, the walls can feel like they are creeping in on us and extra work items or home schooling resources are highlighting a need for more storage and better organisation.
Read MoreOur Ikea Duktig kitchen is definitely our most played with toy. With two girls under five, it has been well loved for over four years and was beginning to show a few signs of looking tired. I've always wanted to upcycle it, and over the years have had various designs in mind, but renovating two houses and a house move took priority over less essential (but way more fun) projects like this one.If you've been following me for a while, you'll know we have given our real kitchen a temporary update, whilst we save for an extension. This project, therefore, gave me a chance to put my plywood and ribbed wood dreams into real life, albeit on a smaller scale!! It has also meant I had a chance to change two of the only things I found impractical about the play kitchen - the fact that all the toys fell down the back, and the plastic hooks which the kids constantly pulled off and scattered around the house.
Read MoreAD - This blog post has been kindly paid for by King and McGaw but all opinions and words are, as always, my own.Art on the walls really does make a house a home. It's the finishing touch so to speak, and leaving all your walls empty can make your home feel stark and unfriendly.You don't need to install gallery walls on every inch of your home, but a few collections of art here and there will really bring your rooms to life and give them a beautiful and unique personality (which you can change up relatively easily as and when the mood takes you).Displaying art on the walls is also a fabulous way of bringing rented accommodation to life or for injecting colour into a neutral scheme. It can be a great conversation starter when you have friends round, it can make you chuckle, marvel, daydream, think, become pensive, nostalgic or even inspired. Art is a multi-faceted accessory in your home and shouldn't just be an after-thought.
Read MoreNaff. That was the first thought in my mind when I came across tile stickers.But then we moved to this house with a lime green kitchen and my opinion began to change. I knew we needed to come up with a quick and cheap solution so we could transform it (or at the very least, make it 'liveable') before all the major building works began.You can find tile stickers on eBay and Amazon, but after heaps of searching, we personally struck gold with moonwallstickers.com. It's an unassuming website, with limited and rather uninspiring social media activity but, my oh my, some of the tile stickers on there are gorgeous! (This is NOT an ad by the way!) There are also multiple size options available for every design making it compatible with the tiles you already have.
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