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Win a Wallsticker worth up to £50 with Wallboss!
You may already know I’m a fan of wallstickers, having used them before to bring an instant change to our kitchen and boys’ rooms. They are perfect for creating a wall feature, giving lots of impact...
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Review: Scatter Cushions from Sofa Sofa
We would really like to buy some new seating soon; our ten year old leather sofas and armchairs have taken a hammering by our children (why can’t boys sit normally?) but they have done remarkably well...
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Retro 3 Way Eyeball Floor Lamp from Iconic Lights
I think we all realise that having good lighting in the home is key to helping us carry out certain tasks or creating the right mood, but personally I haven’t always been wholly successful in choosing...
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Ideas to create a cosy conservatory
Many of us have a conservatory and a great addition to the home it can be, giving us valuable extra space to create a playroom, office or somewhere to sit and relax or eat meals with the family. I love...
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Review: Safavieh Area Rug from Wayfair
The back room in our house has presented a problem for quite some time and it’s quite a large one – the floor. We had the floorboards sanded, stained and sealed several years ago and they looked...
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Conservatory Reveal featuring Habitat’s Askem Sofa
Last time I wrote about our conservatory, we had just decorated with the aim of making the room more cosy. A darker, earthy wall colour and some new statement wall paper with an on-trend botanical...
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Bedroom Refresh with Pantone Colour of the Year 2016
A new year heralds a new start in all areas of our lives. For the home, it’s fun to plan some updates to freshen things up. Well, you may have heard or seen that the ‘Pantone Color Institute’ has...
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Review: Karcher Pressure Washer K4 Compact Home
How are your outdoor areas looking this month? All the rain we’ve been having lately has turned our lawn into a quagmire and the moss and weeds on our driveway have been loving all the dampness. Me,...
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A Bedding Update for Growing Children
If your little ones are growing up a bit, one of the things you can do to acknowledge that change is make a few updates in their bedroom. Two of our sons share a bedroom and now aged 7 and 10, their...
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Review: Vintage Stag’s Head Wall Light
I’m delighted to be an ambassador for Iconic Lights, because they have a fantastic range of gorgeous lighting with cool, designer looks at incredibly affordable prices. My favourite departments are...
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Ted Baker Tiles – Our Choice for the Perfect Shower Room
We are embarking on an exciting new project soon which is the renovation of our bathroom. I’ll be blogging about the whole process from start to finish, which begins in early April. But first of all,...
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Bathroom Planning – Making the Most of a Small Space
Regular readers may remember that our bathroom was looking past its best a couple of years ago when we gave it a little cosmetic makeover. It was just a temporary facelift, until we could move ahead...
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Find Inspiration with an Online Design Consultation
With our bathroom renovation now under way (new blog post and pictures coming soon!), I thought I’d just share a bit first about how we decided the design and layout of the new room. We chose to lose...
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Bathroom To Shower Room Progress – Part One
The guys started work on our bathroom to shower room renovation this week. So I thought I’d show you how the work has been progressing. We began with a compact bathroom featuring a corner bath and...
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Boys’ Bedroom Update – Blackout Roller Blind
A while ago we started decorating our younger two boys’ shared bedroom. We had swapped their grey metal bunk bed for a more stylish and roomier triple wooden bunk bed in a white finish. We added some...
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Bathroom to Shower Room Progress Part 2
Time for another update on our bathroom-to-shower room renovation, as things have progressed really quite quickly since the last post I did. The team of guys we employed have done a great job and I...
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Bathroom To Shower Room – The Reveal!
Our shower room is finished, woo-hoo! I say finished; everything is installed, but we have to paint the ceiling, door and frame and the toilet cubicle across the landing – but I couldn’t wait to show...
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Ted Baker Tiles In Our Shower Room
A while ago I blogged about our plans to convert our bathroom to a shower room and you may have caught recently (if not, you can see it here). Today though I just wanted to return to the Ted Baker...
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Quirky Outdoor Ornaments from New Garden Style
How amazing the weather has been this past few days! With the kids off for half term, we’ve certainly been making the most of the outdoors and it has been so great. In particular we’ve enjoyed...
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DFS Going For Gold with the Britannia Range
I was excited to take delivery of this beautiful chair from DFS recently. This is no ordinary chair, as you can probably tell just by looking at it, but did you also know that I actually helped to...
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