Covetable homeware inspiration for the cost-conscious
London Borough of Jam, £5 Domestic Science tea towel, £7 A. G. Hendy & Co, body brush, £19.50 Lolas leads, glorious extension leads, £49 Straw London, £15 By Alice Home, set of 4, £32 Tatiana Alida, print £80 Amuse la bouche tea towel, £20 Mon pote home, poster club print, £65 Csao Amour plate, 29 [...]
Here is an edit of some of my favourite bits from our living room, lots of which we had in our previous house and a few key new bits which we fell in love with. I did the Create Academy course with Rita Koning and one of the many useful tips she shared was that - unless you are significantly downsizing of course - you should take all of your furniture with you to your new house. It is better to have a table for your drink, even if it isn't perfect, rather than to have no table at all. The Ikea bedside table below had been sitting in our loft for years and we bought it to the new house on the off chance there might be a home for it and, there it now sits next to the armchair. We might get a new one at some point but for now it is great to have somewhere to put that glass of wine.
I don't know about you but I absolutely love a museum/gallery shop. The buying is so well considered and you can often find a real hidden gem. Over the years I have turned to these shops a lot for interesting art to hang at home or for general inspiration for interiors. In the best ones [...]
I absolutely love crockery - I might even go as far as saying I am a little bit obsessed. I have always dreamt of owning a hand thrown set but my budget over the years just hasn't allowed for it. I even went on a pottery course to see if I could learn to do [...]
A few years back one December we had just (I mean literally weeks before) moved into a new house and we thought it would be a great idea to host people over the festive break. Within three weeks we had fitted a whole new kitchen, decorated most of the rooms and got our house ready [...]
Do you have a blank wall that desperately needs something? Do you have a pile of photos and prints that are sitting around not being used as you aren't too sure what to do with them? Do you want a gallery wall but are overwhelmed at the thought of where to start? If your answer [...]
The autumn leaves brushing your boots as you wander to the train station with a cup of hot coffee on your way into town. You get to the platform and watch as the warm glow from the sun glistens over the trees in the distance. The reality is usually quite different, usually involving me running [...]
I, like most people, would love to adorn my walls with a mixture of gorgeous original artwork that I have sourced from antique markets and big auction houses. In reality that is completely unrealistic and - like a lot of other areas in my home - requires a bit more research to find the best option for my budget.
Below I have pulled together just some of the options I have found over the past few months whilst I have been researching some ideas for the gallery wall I am planning to go above the sofa in the lounge (more to come on that very soon).
Spring is the season of hope. Colour starts creeping back into the garden, the nights get longer, the day gets brighter, the clouds occasionally lift long enough to take your coat off and expose your ankles. For me, it is the seasonal equivalent to a Friday. You still have the whole season ahead to look [...]
Here are some instructions of how I updated the Ikea Duktig very simply, and cheaply using just a few additional items. Here is what the kitchen looks like before What you need for the hack Scissors Scalpel Marble vinyl adhesive Gold spray paint Duktig kitchen cross head screw driver pencil hammer ruler Size of the [...]
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