Category: House

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  • How to get Cheaper Vintage Artwork

    I love old floral oil paintings. There’s something so characterful about them and when teamed with a vintage-style gold frame, there’s nothing nicer. I don’t like the price of them though! Original oil paintings can cost a small fortune, like hundreds of pounds, which is way over my budget. Here’s how to get cheaper vintage artwork!

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  • Our Kitchen Floor Transformation with Harvey Maria Luxury Vinyl Tiles – Parquet Flooring [ad]

    I have been DYING to show you our kitchen floor transformation! It’s been a long time coming (thanks Covid-19 lockdown!). Our kitchen and dining area had two different floor surfaces – slate tiles in the kitchen part, which were so cold your feet turned white when you walked on them in winter, and painted concrete in the dining room, which was a temporary measure that lasted nearly two years. The…

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  • Our Neutral Bathroom – Going back to the lighter side!

    Have you ever redecorated a space on a whim? Or something someone said? I’m in a group over on Facebook where people talk about their houses. Someone had asked for pictures of navy bathrooms to get inspiration, so I sent over one of mine. I then started thinking. I never actually wanted a navy bathroom. I wanted a super dark grey one. How did I end up with a navy…

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  • Home Office Spaces in Period Homes

    More and more of us are working from home these days. Primarily I’m a wedding cake maker so I spend a lot of time in my kitchen baking and decorating wedding cakes, however I also have a lot of admin to get done. We turned our spare room/Room of Requirement style dumping ground into a mini office last year where I can work without taking over the dining table! Our…

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  • How to Panel a Victorian Hallway (An Easy Tutorial!)

    One job I’ve been meaning to do for about a million years is panel our Victorian hallway. I’ve finally done it! I felt like such a winner haha! The best part is, it only took two hours from start to finish, which included time for a chat to the post lady about vegan cakes and enough time for me to rip off the panelling and start again when I’d mismeasured…

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