Sometimes the simple changes can be the ones that have the biggest impact. It's true that you can achieve a makeover on even a very small budget but this one cost nothing at all, and whilst I know that not everyone has a Utility Room, the changes that I made would work in any kitchen too. Our Utility Room is a small narrow room just off the kitchen. It has sliding door because it wouldn't be deep enough for a door to open into it. It is … [Read more...]
Floral Monogram Craft for a girl’s bedroom
This time last year I was counting glue-gun-related burns and counting pompoms as I made a Pom Pom Monogram for Dimples' Dora Birthday party. After the party it got to hang in pride of place above her bed- a two-foot-tall homage to the small person that puts us all in our place. Her sister wanted a Floral Monogram. It took a few months until a delivery arrived in a conveniently-sized box so that I could begin again with glue-gun … [Read more...]
Painted Mailbox makeover
Is it a postbox if it isn't red? I have no idea. I got to a crucial point in my painted mailbox makeover last week and I had to ask my Instagram followers what wording I should use. I am deeply in love with the result. After I updated our front door earlier this month, I knew I needed to do something similar with the post box. It came with the house- I presume made by the last owner- as we have no letter box in the front door. Ours is a … [Read more...]
Planning a bathroom that will grow with my family #WhyIneedaNewBath
My thoughts on Planning a bathroom that will grow with my family. When we moved into the house we knew that we would need to do work to the bathroom, for a number of reasons: Firstly, because there is only one- something that the surveyor was at pains to point out in the pre-purchase stages. Secondly because there is no shower. And thirdly because the survey said there were 'issues' with the bathroom in it's current state. I … [Read more...]
How to paint your front door
Growing up I moved around the world with my parents, I went to boarding school, then I got a job that involved travelling. So with our first house, it was so important to me that I declared my ownership. In my case (and the then-boyfriend, of course) it was with a smart new front door, painted black and decorated with frosted numbers on the glass panel above, just like I'd seen in the Grand Designs magazine. Once that was done, it really felt … [Read more...]
Our Shabby Chic Summerhouse Makeover
When we moved house last summer we left behind in our former garden a beautiful hand-painted playhouse, bought as an over-indulgent gift to our first child on her first birthday. It had daily use from a multitude of children and we all mourned it's loss. I even mourned the handpainted sign saying 25 1/2 that I had made for it. But the children got over their loss with the promise of their first trampoline, and we had plans for … [Read more...]
Starting on the sitting room renovation, with Wayfair home
We have been working hard to update the cottage in the wood. The rooms that are finished, we are really pleased with: The Guest Loo The Entrance Dimples' Room LBG's room Family Room Kitchen But the Sitting Room is proving to be a challenge. It is quite large, you see, and I am at a loss as to how to bring the whole room together when all it wants to do, it seems, is eat furniture! As it is on the end of the house, it has three external … [Read more...]
