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 6th, 2013
I’d love to be able to bring you more posts of finished projects. With beautiful pictures and everything complete and in place. That is certainly the house I want to be living in right now. But the fact is that we bought a fixer-upper and they take time. We are also working on a [...]
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 [...]
Monday, January 28th, 2013
I sit here, in my living room (as that is where my computer is) and think about all the projects that Robert and I currently have on the go in the house. The kids are playing nicely, in fact Ned has just lined his trains up all along the handles on the drawers of [...]
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
So many people use their homes as part of their business nowadays. Whether it be a simple desk in the corner of a bedroom or a home office in the garden shed. I’m one of those people and today’s post charts the makeover of a room at the side of our house, just next [...]
Monday, January 14th, 2013
This space is just off the entrance hall and leads in to the kitchen. It’s the room that I fell in love with the most when I first viewed the house (almost a year ago) as I’ve never lived in a house with such a luxurious, non-essential area in it. It’s just there and [...]
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 [...]
Monday, October 1st, 2012
There are certain places in a house that produce a physical and emotional response in me, depending on what they look like. These areas include porches, landings, entrance halls, hallways, staircases, fireplaces, windowseats and corners or nooks that are hidden away just waiting for someone to discover and enjoy them. The porch was one [...]
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 [...]
