Just a mini post about a mini project today to get back in the swing of things. Work has been an absolute killer since I got back after Christmas, and I’ve been finding it really difficult to get the smallest things done or written outside of work cos I’m always so knackered and zombie-fied after… Read More Painting the Fireguard
Here’s a little post about the mini makeover I did with my new sunburst clock. OK so it’s hardly knocking down a wall, but it’s made one corner of my home that bit easier on the eye. My home decor preferences are not attached to a specific era. I feel like if was obsessed with… Read More DIY Sunburst Clock Makeover
Follow my blog with Bloglovin If anyone out there is thinking of filling in a garden pond, you’re in the right place. If you’re not planning to fill in a garden pond read on anyway, for loads of pics of Jamie standing in mud. I was planning to post this last night but it got… Read More Garden Progress: Filling in the Pond
Jamie and I have been spending the festive season holed up going stir crazy as we’re both sick as dogs with some revolting cold. This is the first day I’ve even opened my laptop – we’ve just been sleeping restlessly and staring at the TV listlessly. Underneath our apathetic exteriors we’re raging with frustration at… Read More Easy Homemade Component Boxes
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I had been on the lookout for a nice piece of furniture to store stuff like cocktail glasses and board games. A (very wholesome – at least for the purposes of this blog) party cupboard if you will. I spied a real gem on Gumtree (Gumtree turns it on OFTEN… Read More Repairing an Oak Sideboard
One of the major things we knew we wanted to get done to the house after we moved in was to get a wood burning stove (or log burner as we call them in NZ) installed in our front room. We actually had a mate who had DIY’d one in his home, and we had… Read More Getting the Wood Burning Stove Installed
Here’s how I replaced a cheap and nasty frame with another cheap and nasty frame, which I then attempted to make look more expensive and chunky. I love this print. I’m actually in love with Botticelli’s work, but I do feel it’s a bit naff to have a print of an original Botticelli hanging in… Read More Frame Hack
Brace yourselves my friends, for this is a post about candle holders. Get ready for a wild ride. It’s the depths of Autumn, so lighting candles in the evening helps to ramp up the cosiness. We went the whole hog about a year ago and got a wood burning stove installed so it’s already pretty cosy… Read More Warm Metallic Candle Holders
Since we moved in two years ago, our bedroom has come a long way. Not necessarily in the right direction ha! The people who owned the house before us put in a whole wall of mirror door wardrobes. What. So terrible. And I also kind of love it. Now don’t worry, I DEFINITELY would not… Read More Bedroom Progress
Hey ho. I have had a bland little bedside table next to the bed for some years and finally decided enough is enough. It’s very functional, good size, handy drawers, but oh-so boring. Beech tone laminate. Bleugh. No hardware at all. Yawn. So inoffensive that it violently offended me every time I laid eyes on it.… Read More IKEA Malm Hack
little gold vase 