Tag: interior design
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Interior Predictions 2020
2019 saw even more people taking to Instagram to share the beautiful rooms in their own houses, this trend will continue for 2020, with a move away from high street stores to individuals upcycling and buying sustainable older pieces of furniture. A lot of us live in Victorian houses with old smaller Victorian rooms painted…
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Winter Garland
I love the smell of December, the whole house is alive with greenery. Christmas Tree purchased on Sunday and yesterday I put together a Winter Garland in the hall. It didnt take a long time and it was so inexpensive to create. Lat week I was given four enourmous pine branches, your florist or nursery…
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How to Upcycle a Kitchen Dresser
Have you seen the recent trend for dark navy or very deep blue kitchens? I’ve been lusting over these dark kitchens from Devol for ages. They look so luxurious and expensive. With our extension put off until next year and no budget for a new kitchen, we set about upcycling our existing circa 1980’s Kitchen…
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How to Make an Entrance
When we moved into our house just over three years ago decorating the hallway as not a priority. We had no central heating and no hot water so the hall and staircase got a lick of white paint over the existing wallpaper. Now we didn’t hate this wallpaper but didn’t love it either. With some…
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Spring Sundays
I love Spring Sundays when the garden comes into bloom. It’s been busy in the garden this Spring, re-potting Dahlias, nurturing our Peonies and sowing Wild Flower Seeds. The stars of the Spring show so far have included our beautiful Cherry Blossom Tree, which gives the most amazing display of bright pink bloom, framing the…
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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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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.…