"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall," wrote F Scott Fitzgerald, and never a truer word was spoken about what is by far…
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How I’m Planning My Downstairs Makeover: Part 2
Posted on September 2, 2019
Note: Before you get stuck into the below, check out Part 1 of how I plan a makeover to see the six vital questions I think everyone should…
In Inspiration, Room Makeovers
How I’m Planning My Downstairs Makeover: Part 1
Posted on September 1, 2019
For the last few weeks I've been ankle-deep in scraps of sodden paper, as we systematically scored, steamed and stripped paper from virtually every wall on our ground…
If you’ve started feeling like you’re being watched while you browse the aisles of a homeware store recently, you have the re-emergence of modernism and post-impressionism to thank.…
Last summer, I spent many evenings re-building our crumbling, rotten deck by hand. It was hot, dull, inefficient work. But it was also free, as our DIY budget…
There aren’t many questions more fundamental to a room makeover than: What colour are you going to paint it? Of course, interior design is more than colour -…
“In cooking as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection” wrote Curnonsky, the Parisian ‘Prince of Gastronomy’. Certainly this is true in product design for…
If you’ve been keeping up with the news in the last couple of months, you’ll know that your home could be causing antimicrobial resistance and lead poisoning, your…
As a very new blogger, I spend a fair amount of time in the fun place I call the Cave of Comparison. You can enter the cave a…
When we left off our bedroom makeover project, we had a long list of jobs and an even longer list of decisions to make, from coving style to…