Category: interior design
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Colour me Crazy… painting my house white
I have started looking at my house differently. How many dark corners, so I have started to paint it all white brightening it up. Knowing full well if it’s too bland then I can give it another lick of paint. Plans for colour I still love accents walls so I am going to expand my…
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The whole of the Moon
So these have been a recent purchase and I bought them because they were pretty. The are called opalite and said to help form lasting romantic bonds but only to the faithful. ( no shit) Opalite is believed to alleviate depression, soothe frayed nerves and help us to step away from anxiety. I don’t really…
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Hot list…a Month of Blog Challenge…. let’s do it
I am following the @storyofmyhome and they have a September challenge and I am going to try and write a blog post every day! I have done this before, I missed a few so let’s see how I get on with it. I hope it will inspire to write and to photograph areas of my…
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I have been a busy bee, Quick home update: 5 things
So I thought I could give you a weekly update on five things I have done this week or that have been started. The storms revealed a leak This is not great news at all. Gavin was on a Zoom call when water started pouring through the light fitting. The rain was almost tropical and…
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Searching for art for the bathroom
I have spent a while redoing the bathroom but we have a large white wall and we are not sure what to do with it. Gavin originally wanted to completely redo the whole room but I convinced him to just let me update it! So even though I am a super colourful person and actually…
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Decorating for Halloween a house filled with pumpkins!
I love Halloween. I always have, the dressing up the food the colour palette! How often do orange and purple get pride of place on the shop shelves or even in your home. Plastic mass production is getting me down a little so rather than go mad on fresh decorations I thought I would just…
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Kerb appeal, falling in love
Day14 outside kerb appeal. The first time I saw my house was on a viewing to see another house two roads down. I causally said. I could live here! We loved the house a few roads down it was a Victorian end of terrace with room to improve. It was bigger than ours but the…
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Nature inspired interior let’s talk about pineapples
Today’s blog is on nature inspired so I thought a trip down memory lane may be a good idea! Not my memory but the Victorians in there interior architecture. Nature was inspired with every fleur de ly, every sconce and carpet runner pole. They brought nature inside without being too obvious. And round my house…
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Work it!!!
My little house really works for us. It’s cool all year round so even in the hottest summer that was last year my Victorian brick house was cool as a cucumber. This means in winter it gets cold but it doesn’t take long with central heating to warm it up. Plus we love a fire!…
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