Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
This is a great room, we knew this when we first viewed the house. It is very light, has tall ceilings, overlooks the garden and is long. The previous owner sold us this table and chairs when we moved in as they fitted the room well. I’ve played about with this room over the [...]
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
Hmmmm, so THIS is what the fireplace looked like when we moved in. Then I painted the brick surround white. And then it stayed like that until just a few days ago when I was thoroughly fed up of looking at dirty ash stained brick and knew that I had to start making [...]
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Good morning! I’ve been giving some thought to how Robert and I are going about decorating the house and how I want it to work as a family home when it’s all done. I’ve come to the conclusion that I want it to be easy to maintain. Our life, like yours, is very busy [...]
Monday, February 25th, 2013
I have another decorative progress report for you today. Slowly but surely I’m making my way about the house, corner by corner, adding my stamp. The wall you see in the picture above (the space just underneath the wall lamp) needed something to break it up. So last year we added a shelf [...]
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
One of the questions I am asked the most, apart from “is that your real name?”, it is yes, is “what type of fairy lights do you use?” I’m quite particular about the lights I choose in my home and if I were to advise anyone working within a budget in their house I [...]
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
When I first looked around this house there was an area just off the entrance hall that led in to the kitchen, it was technically dead space with some cupboards and other doors leading off it. And it took me about two and a half nano seconds to fall in love with it. You [...]
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
On Friday afternoon my kids were having a nap and I instagrammed a picture of my dark wooden painted staircase. I really like the shape of the staircase but not the colour. And you can see that it has been painted or stained this dark reddish colour as some of the lighter paint shows through [...]
Thursday, September 20th, 2012
We have guests coming to stay on Sunday and I’m happy. I actually really like having a house full of guests, it makes me feel like the house is earning its keep by caring for as many people as possible. Another good thing about having people come to stay is that it kicks your bottom [...]
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Morning! I have to say that finishing off the painting of the kitchen dresser has cheered me up in a way I didn’t think was possible. I am accepting that this house is ours and we don’t have to move out of it. We can potter and decorate at a slow or a fast pace [...]
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
Here’s the dresser before I painted it with Annie Sloan, Chalk Paint in ‘Old White’. And here it is after. I think it’s safe to say that I’m over the moon, already painting other pieces of the kitchen and will probably never stop! I’ve oiled one side of it and two drawers and [...]
