Im trying to write a post about painting our front gate, but I am losing the will to live. Fast. That and the fact that its raining (shocker) so I cant get an after picture. The blogging gods are aga...
My lovely friend Amy, kindly came over with her beautiful Canon 5D and took a few decent progress pics of our house for our Hause Tour page. Given that I still dont have a camera that isnt also a pho...
Ive just seen this picture.I want that room. I cant have that room. So instead I want some super cool massive shelves where I can pile things up artistically and pretend I read far mo...
I posted a while back about painting away the baby-boy blue stars in our spare room. Since that took place weve added a few bits here and there to our new teenage boys room. Seriously, thats what it ...
When we went on holiday to New York last year we had some lunch in this overly cool place in Williamsburg. The food was ok, the waitress was a bit dismissive and it was basically a bit of a dive bar ...
How cute are these enamel pie dishes?The large one was £2.50 and the smaller one £2 from Morrisons of all places. Nice for pies or just putting crisps in. They are all tinny and like something from t...
I posted ages ago about painting our living room. We did the whole thing in Swansdown (Dulux Trade paint) and one wall, the one with the fireplace, in Dove (also Dulux Trade).Obviously this is a shit...
Just spent £60 on a new toilet seat.Home owner.Shoots self in face.Brains. Everywhere.
My new geometric print has arrived and found a home.
I want a George Nelson Saucer Bubble Pendant SO BAD.Sorry what? Prices start at £350?*Has a stroke*Ill be making do with an Ikea paper lantern for now then.
Im going to talk rugs again.Im sorry but thats what happens when you have exposed wood floor boards and live in the North West.Since weve had the floors refinished weve been trying not to be too prec...
Its been a bit quiet on the home front this week. Mainly because Ive FINALLY got myself a new iPhone and have therefore dropped everything to play on it 24 hours a day. Who needs a house when you hav...
This weekend we attempted to remove some of the madness from the spare room. By which I mean a LOT of empty boxes and things that could find a new home. We even put some things in the loft which is n...
I found a runner for our hallway in Ikea.You really cant fault them for stuff like that. We needed something that wasnt going to get ruined by people traipsing in and out of the front door with wet/d...
Heres something you can do when you are waiting for your computer to download a massive update that keeps on making it crash.Cover a match box in Washi tape!Oh yeah, I went there. I am now a crafter ...
Our living room fireplace is looking a bit like a rubbish attempt at a shrine to Bob Dylan at the moment.Hes not dead, FYI.Its an attempt to hide the fire insert that Im not really a fan of. I need t...
I did a bit of make-shift art last night.I had an empty frame that was asking to be used and I remembered I had these Tim Burton playing cards that were a gift a couple of Christmases ago. Ive never ...
So we went ahead and bought a dining table last week and it arrived yesterday. We ended up going with No Name table from John Lewis (as mentioned in this post) because he was on sale down from £299 t...
IM SO HAPPY.Trevor the damp man came over this morning and told me its not damp. We wont have to have the wall ripped out or re-plastered or anything horrid like that. He thought it was jus...
To cheer myself up a bit after yesterdays Damp Gate, I decided it was time to get some more art up on the walls. Putting pictures up was always the first thing I did when moving into rented places. I...
The reason we discovered the effing damp in our dining room last night, was because I was about to go and put up our new curtains when I noticed it. Due to the mini meltdown that was had following th...
Who said owning a house was fun?Let me shoot them.We came home today to find the paint we so lovingly applied at the weekend (in the dining room, I was yet to post about it) was starting to peel itse...
Even as website names go this is a pretty obscure one, but bluesuntree.co.uk&nbs p;is well worth having a look at if you want to get some design classic replicas at more affordable prices.Ive no ...
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