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Living Room Makeover – Part 2. Painting the Brick Fireplace.
Very rarely are people able to move in to new homes and have all the work they want to have done carried out by builders and decorators immediately. Some structural issues may have to be tended to for...
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Starting a Corner
Every house has to evolve in to being a home, I don’t think they just automatically become that way. I think they are like children, you have to give them a certain amount of attention and nurturing...
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Suggestions please, I’m wallpapering the wardrobe……
As I’m currently obsessed with getting our bedroom finished I’ve rooted out three rolls of wallpaper that I bought not knowing what to do with them. Well now I know I want to wallpaper the back of the...
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In the Pink, ‘Middleton Pink’ by Farrow and Ball
I’m usually pretty good at making decisions. I recently made a huge decision overnight and I have no problem with doing that. But I could not get my head around the wallpaper issue at the back of the...
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My White Kitchen and the Open Shelves
Good morning! It was my birthday over the weekend and as I can’t really ask my parents for a pony I asked my dad to spend a few hours making and putting up some open shelves in my kitchen. They are...
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The Kitchen Dresser
Last week I was absolutely determined to finish off renovating my bedroom wardrobe before moving on to anything else.Then the shelves arrived in my kitchen over the weekend and now of course I can’t...
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Annie Sloan, Chalk Paint
So, yesterday I posted about how I was going to be painting a dresser in my kitchen so that the colour matched my taste in decor a little better. I was going to prepare, prime and then paint this...
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Painting Kitchen Cupboards Using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, Progress Report
We’ve just celebrated the last Bank Holiday until Boxing Day so needless to say I’m a leeeetle bit tired today. As is Robert the Husband and as are the children. We had a bbq with Robert’s colleagues...
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Before & After; The Kitchen Dresser
Here’s the dresser before I painted it with Annie Sloan, Chalk Paint in ‘Old White’. And here it is after. I think it’s safe to say that I’m over the moon, already painting other pieces of the...
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Operation Dining Room
Morning! I have to say that finishing off the painting of the kitchen dresser has cheered me up in a way I didn’t think was possible. I am accepting that this house is ours and we don’t have to move...
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Guest Room, Part 1
We have guests coming to stay on Sunday and I’m happy. I actually really like having a house full of guests, it makes me feel like the house is earning its keep by caring for as many people as...
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Entrance Hall Renovation – Part 1
On Friday afternoon my kids were having a nap and I instagrammed a picture of my dark wooden painted staircase. I really like the shape of the staircase but not the colour. And you can see that it has...
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Before & After – An Autumn Corner
When I first looked around this house there was an area just off the entrance hall that led in to the kitchen, it was technically dead space with some cupboards and other doors leading off it. And it...
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What Type of Fairy Light Should I Use?
One of the questions I am asked the most, apart from “is that your real name?”, it is yes, is “what type of fairy lights do you use?” I’m quite particular about the lights I choose in my home and if...
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Before & After – Sunroom Shelf Corner
I have another decorative progress report for you today. Slowly but surely I’m making my way about the house, corner by corner, adding my stamp. The wall you see in the picture above (the space just...
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Kitchen Dresser, Spring 2013
Good morning! I’ve been giving some thought to how Robert and I are going about decorating the house and how I want it to work as a family home when it’s all done. I’ve come to the conclusion that I...
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Before & After – Living Room Mantle
Hmmmm, so THIS is what the fireplace looked like when we moved in. Then I painted the brick surround white. And then it stayed like that until just a few days ago when I was thoroughly fed up of...
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Sunroom Living
This is a great room, we knew this when we first viewed the house. It is very light, has tall ceilings, overlooks the garden and is long. The previous owner sold us this table and chairs when we...
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The One Where Everything Gets an Undercoat
So, this house renovation thing……. It takes a looooong time! I’m not kidding when I say that it feels like it’s all happening very slowly. I think it’s a combination of doing a lot of it myself,...
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Before the Christmas Storm
At the top of our landing, right outside our bedroom and underneath the loft hatch, there are currently about twenty bags or boxes containing Christmas decorations. The boxes and bags are all...
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