Tag: home style
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Tumeric Tea Tonic
Well hello there, Its been a while. Summer and other work stuff just got in the way. However I’ve freed up my diary for the next couple of months to bring you at least one post a week. As it’s started to turn cold outside I’ve begun to look after myself inside. Now I love…
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Winter Workspace – The Milligan Desk
I don’t know about you but I tend to hunker down at this time of year, I light fires, candles and put up twinkly lights. Walking the dog becomes a well-rehearsed routine of, what time is sundown today? and what’s the tide doing? To maximise daylight hours. Going to the shops seems unfathomable, going to…
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Dining Room DIY
Hello Hope you had a smasher of a bank holiday weekend, mine was spent doing a little self inflicted DIY. This time it was the turn of our Dining Room. We moved into our house about 18 months ago and one of the first rooms to be given a quick lick was the dining room.…
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Now is the Moment to Rescue a Wreck
Late last year me and Mr B moved into our new home. We had gone from a very trendy central Hove location, regency mansion building, sea views. The location was amazing but after 10 years in a beautiful flat the size and potential of it had become exhausted. So we made the move out of…
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Light up your life
What a lovely weekend! I know I’m obsessed by the weather but doesn’t it feel like spring? I spent time sprucing up the house, finally working outdoors in the garden (more on that later in the week), and entertaining friends. Sometimes I find when you decorate a room it looks finished but it takes a…
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Two men and a Tree – Poison Ivy and the Sycamore
We are lucky enough to have the most enormous sycamore tree at the bottom of the garden. Its huge and beautiful and stands proud guarding the border of the garden. I love sycamore trees, remember playing with the winged seed pods like helicopters in the wind when I was a child. It has one of…
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Dec The Halls
Shopping for Christmas trees the possibilities are endless, Pine? Spruce? Fir? where to begin? First things first. How big do you want your tree? Theres no point buying a 9 foot tree when you only have a small space. Measure the space. If your space is small go for potted trees or more than one.…
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What a Difference a Week Makes
I thought I’d never leave my single girls flat. How I loved it, almost ten years in the bosom of Brighton & Hove. Victorian Mansion flat, high ceilings, sea views….why would I ever leave? Then came along Mr B and a need for more rooms, our collection of stuff and things grew and grew, we…
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Instant Kitchen Table Style
What a grey day it’s turned out! First we had sunshine, followed by showers. Then a rainbow before the sky turned grey and thunder, lightening, hailstones like golf balls…..Got me thinking you can change your home style as quick as a change in the weather. Take my kitchen table and chairs for instance. The chairs…
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Parisian Chair Chic – II
What did you get up to this weekend? Sport, social, work??? European working hours are the longest in the world, so at the weekend it makes sense to kick back and enjoy some time with friends….Why then do we all like a bit of weekend DIY? With home improvement on our minds this weekend…
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Shades of Grey and Teal
Moving to a new house we are in the process of thinking about colour palettes. Mr B’s colour palette consists of Grey….er thats it! ……….Our company logo’s are grey, the sofa is grey and the plant pots are grey! However I’ve been moving to a new hue and its kinda BLUE (that rhymes btw!) In…
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The Annie Sloan Effect….
If I’ve not mentioned it before we are buying a house….on a budget I might add! Leaving the joys of central Hove for a whole house on a beautifully leafy green just outside of Brighton & Hove. All sounds good so far…well yes except we don’t have gas, central heating or hot water and the…
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Love is Like a Butterfly…
It’s all about the house this week at Honest Woman HQ. Almost completed on our new house and weekend thoughts turned to decoration….. So setting off with only a handful of change, Mr B and I descended upon Brighton car boot sales and flea markets….. Now I’m not a fan of the smell of second…