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A Tutorial for Wood Panelled Walls in the Bathroom

12 February 2020 Comments : 6

Initially when we were planning our new bathroom, we were heading towards having tiled walls. White metro tiles, to be exact. I’ve got a pallet of them sitting in my cellar, ready to go the walls. Unfortunately for those tiles, I changed my mind and decided to go for wood panelling. It was easy toRead More

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Weekend Wander round Bradshaw, Slaithwaite Huddersfield

5 February 2020 Leave a Comment

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Purely because I’m trying to get us all out and about more this year, we went on a wander round Bradshaw, a small hamlet near Slaithwaite in Huddersfield. Unfortunately for us it didn’t quite go to plan. I had thought there was a pub there so we could park up, have a wander round andRead More

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Weekend Wander to York

28 January 2020 Comments : 5

York City Walls - Weekend-Wander-York-City-Centre-and-Walls-by-Life-with-Holly-8

York is one of my favourite places to visit. I love the history and character, and discovering new parts of the city I haven’t seen before. I’m always keen to add in a new weekend wander to York.   In the Christmas holidays we took a day trip there. The plan was to walk aroundRead More

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Weekend Wanders – Dovestone Reservoir

21 January 2020 Leave a Comment

Yeoman Hay Reservoir, Saddleworth - Life with Holly

After one too many wines at a family party on New Years Eve, what better way to blow away the cobwebs than a wander round Dovestone Reservoir? Unfortunately for us, everyone else within a 20 mile radius also thought this was a good idea. It was so busy!

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How I Tiled our Bathroom Floor – A Floor Tiling Tutorial

14 January 2020 Comments : 4

Modern Victorian Bathroom with Dark Wood Wall Panelling by Life with Holly

Last year we carried out our bathroom renovation. Our old bath tub was steel, had started to rust and no matter what I cleaned it with, it always looked dirty. In an ideal world we would have just changed the tub, but it had a tiled bath panel. This meant when we ripped the tubRead More

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Weekend Wanders – Oakworth and Haworth

9 January 2020 Leave a Comment

Weekend Wanders – Oakworth and Haworth

During the Christmas break it was lovely to have a bit of free time. One of my favourite things to do is get out walking, whatever the weather (unless it’s really horrible and wet). I had a fancy for a trip to Haworth, as it’s a beautiful characterful village. I also knew that there isRead More

House

My Goals for the House in 2020

7 January 2020 Comments : 13

Modern Victorian Bathroom with Wood Panelling in Railings and Rolltop Bath by Life with Holly 2020 House Goals

I’m a little late in writing out this post – sorry! We’ve had the most perfect Christmas and New Year followed by a few days of holidays, and I’ve really tried to embrace being away from technology and spending time with my family. It’s been amazing. I can’t say I feel especially refreshed, but IRead More

House

Using Pantone Classic Blue in Period Homes

11 December 2019 Comments : 19

The Versailles Sacré Bleu Velvet Upholstered Bed - Lifestyle

I’m not usually one for following trends or fashions when it comes to interiors. My style is pretty neutral, classic but eclectic and works for me. Every year however, the colour people Pantone release their Colour of the Year. For 2020, the Pantone Colour of the Year was announced as PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue. AccordingRead More

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Super Easy Christmas Mantelpiece Garland

2 December 2019 Leave a Comment

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One of the things I’m really grateful for in our house is the beautiful fireplace. Every year at Christmas I like to decorate the fireplace with a garland. I usually use fresh foliage, but this always ends up crispy and dry after about a day and a half as we use our fire. This year,Read More

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Plastic-Free Christmas Wreath Tutorial

2 December 2019 Comments : 18

Greenery Foliage Christmas Door Wreath on Period Railings Front Door

Another week, another wreath! This weekend we started to decorate the house for Christmas. I say we – Mr R helped me move the bookcase then went out to buy a part for the car, and Holly helped put the baubles on the tree the decided to do some crafts. With glitter. Eugh. I putRead More

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After trying to trick my paperwhite daffodils into After trying to trick my paperwhite daffodils into thinking it was winter by having them in the bottom of the fridge for a few weeks, they're having their revenge. I meant to put them in for a few weeks then plant them up before Christmas. I forgot, and only remembered about them a couple of weeks ago. Since then they appear to have gone on strike and are refusing to grow. Even the ones outside in the actual winter are growing, but these ones are not 🙈 At this rate I'll be left with empty pots 😂

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Back when my table was a table and not a school de Back when my table was a table and not a school desk covered in homework books and Star Wars activity books... I spend 90% of my day in here now finding out whether clauses are coordinating or subordinate and the like 😩

How are we all doing?

LVT flooring part of previous collaboration with @harveymaria

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Sunday! Woohoo! Not that I have any plans today be Sunday! Woohoo! Not that I have any plans today because you know, lockdown and all that. Looks like it'll be a day of walking, roast dinner and the never ending stream of Star Wars that seems to be on my TV at the moment - that bloody theme song is always in my head!

Its Holly's latest obsession, and if she's not watching a film she's watching the Mandalorian or playing an Xbox game to do with it. I'm not feeling the usual screen time guilt though because it's lockdown, the weather has been shit and she can't see her friends. We're surviving, not thriving at the moment x

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Throwing it back to when my hallway wasn't full of Throwing it back to when my hallway wasn't full of wood 🙈 We've had the wood delivered for a project but so far haven't had the time or inclination to start it. I don't know what's happened to me! I was painting, panelling and shwazzing up everywhere before but I seem to have lost my mojo a bit these days. Maybe this weekend we'll start...?

Swipe to see the panelling progress... 

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A quick transformation Tuesday for you today - it' A quick transformation Tuesday for you today - it's all too easy to be influenced by what you see on the gram, and this is me confessing to that! I loved seeing all the dark walls in other people's houses so wanted one. It was fine for a while, but I couldn't live with it so we came back to the light side. This is definitely more me! Have you been influenced by what you see on here?

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Anyone else really struggling to take new pics for Anyone else really struggling to take new pics for the Gram? I've either got no time because of home school and all of Holly's zoom calls - I'm basically her PA now - or the house is a tip because we're all trying to work out of it! So here's an old pic of the bathroom. Happy Saturday!

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I've had freezing cold feet all day today despite I've had freezing cold feet all day today despite three pairs of socks. I need some new slippers as the ones I had before were making me so statically charged I was getting electric shocks off everything - even my plant Malcolm! Sick of being some kind of poor man's Palpatine (one for the Star Wars geeks out there) I need to get some new slippers. Any recommendations for leather soled ones. 

Totally unrelated pic of Holly's room - only this part of it is presentable! I've got plans to channel my inner nana and crochet a blanket for in here but when I'll have time for that in between work, home school and drinking copious amounts of red wine, I'm not sure! 

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Well. Here we go again... Thank goodness I'm not d Well. Here we go again... Thank goodness I'm not doing Dry January! I'm going to be more like Oscar and take it one day at a time. Hope you're OK x

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Evening! Exciting times with my evening post, I kn Evening! Exciting times with my evening post, I know. I can't believe it's back to normal (although I use that word VERY lightly...!) tomorrow. The Christmas holidays have gone so fast!

Also, Mel @littleterracedhouse, Lydia @houseofspolland and I have a little group over on Facebook to chat all things DIY and Decor. I've put a link into the bio - come join us!

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So good to have the house back to normal! It was f So good to have the house back to normal! It was filthy underneath all the decorations, so I've spent the afternoon cleaning and tidying (obvs had to document this for the Gram). Can't beat a good old tidy up! What a wild New Year's Day.

Flooring part of previous PR collaboration. 

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