"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall," wrote F Scott Fitzgerald. And I couldn't agree more with his sentiment about autumn, undeniably the…
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall," wrote F Scott Fitzgerald. And I couldn't agree more with his sentiment about autumn, undeniably the…
Note: Before you get stuck into the below, check out Part 1 of how to plan a room makeover to see the six vital questions I think everyone…
For the last few weeks I've been thinking about how to plan a room makeover. I've been ankle-deep in scraps of sodden paper, as we scored, steamed and…
Do you feel like you’re being watched while you browse the aisles of a homeware store? Well, you have the re-emergence of modernism and post-impressionism to thank for…
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…
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Posted on July 30, 2019
If you’ve been keeping up with the news in the last couple of months, you’ll know your home could be causing antimicrobial resistance and lead poisoning. Your heating…
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…