7 Budget-Friendly DIYs That Will Add Value To Your Home
There are a number of money-saving, quick, simple and easy home improvements that you can do in a weekend that will make a huge change to the look and feel of your home..
Read MoreThe Best Pink Paint Colours To Decorate With At Home
Even though pink as an interior trend has been doing the rounds for a good few years now, the popularity and desire for it to feature in our home decor is just is not waning. Pink as a paint colour is still an extremely attractive choice for many, as the shade has shaken off its ‘feminine’ label and is seen as contemporary and fun..
Read More5 Stylish Dining Chairs For Under £150
The wonderful thing about dining chairs is that they can be multi-functional and placed in various locations throughout the home, rather than just used for ‘dining’..
Read More5 Clever And Contemporary DIY Paint Decor Ideas For The Home
I am an absolute sucker for clever home decor ideas using paint. Paint is an affordable way to totally transform your home, so I’m always on the look out for interesting ways that people use it. Recently, I’ve seen some genius paint tricks used residentially, so I wanted to share them today on the blog...
Read MoreA beginner’s guide to painting wooden sash windows
Sorting out your sash windows to bring them back to their former glory isn’t a hard job, you just need to have the right products…
Read More5 Simple Ideas To Create A Productive Workspace
Whether your current workstation is a desk in the spare room or a laptop on the kitchen table, the key to creating a productive workspace is designing an area where you actually want to sit and work..
Read MoreHow To Remove Wallpaper And Make Good The Walls
Stripping off old wallpaper is a tedious and boring DIY job, but it is vital to do this task properly before you redecorate. Residue paste, flecks of old paper and damaged walls will make any new paint or wallpaper look terrible, so it is important to spend time and energy on the preparation before starting on your new room scheme…
Read MoreBedroom Design, Decor Ideas and Inspiration For A Master Bedroom Revamp
I’ve been working on a total overhaul of our master bedroom for a number of weeks now, so today on the blog I thought I would share some of the decor ideas which led to the design of the new room scheme and how I use Pinterest to collect inspiration…
Read MoreWorking From Home: 5 Compact Desk Designs For Small Spaces
COVID-19 has led to a large proportion of the UK workforce now working from home. If you did not regularly work from home before the outbreak, you might be finding it hard to concentrate sitting at the kitchen table being distracted by the fridge, or sat squashed up on the sofa in front of the TV….
Read MoreNew Wallpaper Designs For 2020
Last week I focused on if you can use wallpaper in a bathroom. This week, I thought it would be good to take a look at the new wallpaper designs that have been released so far for 2020….
Read MoreCan I Wallpaper A Bathroom?
Using wallpaper in a bathroom is a subject I’ve touched on before 3 years ago when I first wallpapered my own bathroom. Since that time, I have had a number of questions asked about the wallpaper in here….
Read MoreFor The Love Of Lilac: The Big Interior Colour Trend For 2020
Parma Violet sweets, Care Bears and My Little Pony toys are all reminiscent of the colour lilac from my childhood. The soft, light-purple hue has historically adorned children’s goods rather than take centre stage in our homes, yet lilac and lavender shades are set to be huge within interior design for 2020.
Read More5 Top Kitchen Trends For 2020
Whether you are looking to replace your entire kitchen, or simply tweak the one you currently have to make it more modern, the good news is that the top 5 kitchen trends for 2020 are actually quite achievable. I’ve noticed these 5 trends in the most desirable kitchen imagery of late, from high-end glossy magazine shoots to Instagram homes. They provide a consistent formula to an on-trend kitchen for 2020 and are mostly quite simple to install, affordable, plus some can even be DIY’d!
Read MoreHow To Use Painter's Tape: Tips To Get A Perfectly Straight Paint Line
Painter’s tape, also known as decorator’s tape, is a miracle DIY product that just makes painting your home so much easier! Rather than relying on a steady hand when cutting-in between your wall and your ceiling or skirting, painter’s tape allows you to get a perfectly straight, razor-sharp paint line between two different paint colours with ease. For those who like to be a bit creative, painter’s tape is the perfect tool to create stripes and shapes on your walls, making it great to use in a kids room where you might want to add in a multitude of colours!
Read MoreBring Colour Into Your Home With The Painted Interior Door Trend
In the past 3 weeks, I have painted 2 interior doors in my home in deep, vibrant shades. The door in my young son’s bedroom I painted in a cobalt blue. While our previously cream basement door got a lick of rich, red burgundy. Safe to say that I am a HUGE fan of the painted interior door trend. Painting an interior door in a bold shade is an easy way to add vibrant colour into your home, without having to commit to painting all the walls in a domineering hue.
Read MoreInterior Wall Art Trends For 2020
The start of a New Year can always stir up a desire to change up your home and give it a slight refresh. While new furniture is expensive, you may not have the time nor the inclination to repaint your walls. So, just how do you give the rooms in your home a whole new, on-trend look and mix it all up a bit? Quite simply, the quickest and most effective way to switch up your home decor is to add in new framed prints, posters and art, which will completely revamp any space.
Read More5 Of The Best New Table And Desk Lamps
As the January sales come to an end, over the next few weeks we will see the release of new products from the spring/summer collections for 2020. This week I’ve decided to focus on the best new table and desk lamps becoming available to purchase.
Read More6 Easy Decor Ideas To Update A Child's Bedroom On A Budget
As I helped my son put on his uniform for his very first day at school, I scanned his bedroom and quickly realised that he had drastically outgrown the room I had decorated for him when he was just a year old. No longer a baby, his nursery-like bus wallpaper and aeroplane-themed furniture handles did not reflect this strong-willed young boy in front of me. His room needed to be updated, so over the space of 6 months I worked on different areas of the room to make it more in-line with his age.
Read MoreEnvironmentally Friendly Paint: Everything You Need To Know About The Leading Eco Paint Brands
As a child of the ‘80’s, I vividly remember my parents decorating our family home. Painting a room could only happen in the height of summer when all the doors and windows could be left open. Regardless, the harsh smell of chemical-laden paint always travelled through every room in the house. If the room being painted was a bedroom, you couldn’t sleep in it for a good few days until the fumes started to subside. The end result of a day decorating was two paracetamol for a banging headache, a dizzy spell and an early night.
Read MoreDesigning A Calm And Serene Bedroom
A few years ago when maximalism was the big interior trend, I papered all the walls of our master bedroom in a heavily-patterned, floral blue wallpaper. To accompany it, I painted everything else in the room a deep blue to match. While I loved this look for a while (and I still love the wallpaper design), I quickly yearned for a much more calming space to wind down, read, sleep and get dressed in. The room gets a lot of light with two windows in it, yet the deep shade of blue sucked that beautiful morning light away. The jazzy wallpaper pattern didn’t feel soothing or resting and didn’t provide the blank canvas required when choosing what to wear for the day (all the colour and pattern of my clothes intermixed with the wallpaper and the blue, making everything clash).
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