Our house is slowly starting to take shape. Now that we have weathered our first winter and almost unpacked all the boxes, it feels like home. We have decorated several rooms: The Guest Loo The Kitchen Dimples' Room LBG's Room and this weekend the finishing touches were put in the Family Room. The Family Room- part playroom, part office for me, part snug- is off the hall but leads to the sitting room so is a bit of a through room. It … [Read more...]
House Renovation ideas for the kitchen
The kitchen is the heart of our home, not least because I am lucky to have an Aga, so it is the warmest place in the house for most of the day. It's a lovely large room which houses a good sized dining table, two walls of units and one brick-built recess on the third wall for the Aga. The fourth wall was a bit of a conundrum- it had an empty narrow alcove, the door to our hallway corridor and a sliding door to the small Utility Room. I needed a … [Read more...]
Using Decals to decorate a girl’s bedroom
You would be forgiven for thinking that we moved house to avoid a) having build work and b) decorating The Girls' bedroom. I promised LBG a long time ago that she could get her bedroom redecorated when Dimples moved in with her. The move, ironically, led to them being separated- and us having build work- so now I have two bedrooms to decorate. In fact a whole house to decorate. I started small with the Guest Loo makeover, the wallpaper for … [Read more...]
Home Craft: Charity Shop cast off and Guest Loo make-over
The thing about a new house is that- generally speaking- you move out of a house that is exactly how you want it to be and into a house that isn't. Meaning you spend the days and weeks after the boxes are all unpacked itching to get something, anything, to be exactly as you want it to be. Any small corner, will do. It's just to give you something to hold up in the months ahead of wallpaper-stripping and furniture-revamping as a beacon of hope for … [Read more...]
Bedroom planning starts with a bed
Since we first saw our house before the summer, DH and I have been daydreaming about what the rooms would look like when we had them decorated to our tastes, and we started with the master bedroom. I suspect that this is partly because it needs a significant amount of work tho transform it from the study that it once was into the Master Suite we have always dreamed of. This, in turn, means that it is likely to be the last room standing. I have … [Read more...]
