A New Copper Pendant For Our Hallway

Finishing touches aren’t always high on our shopping agenda. Realistically when we’re not even at the stage of thinking about paint colours yet, it doesn’t…

Our Forever Home – Three Years On

It feels like yesterday that I wrote this same post after we’d been in our home for two years and now here we are –…

Scenting Our Home With Organic Aromas

  We have a dog – bet you didn’t know that did you? Because I never talk about her, ever. And I haven’t named half…

Filling Our Home With Fresh Flowers

Tulips, freesias, daffodils, carnations (yes!), hydrangeas – there’s nothing quite like having fresh flowers at home. I know it’s an indulgence and they don’t last…

Reno Diaries: Recreating a period hallway

Part of the joy for me in owning a period home is the possibility you have to try and enhance some period features or recreate…

Reno Diaries: Top Tips for New Windows

It’s been two weeks now since we had new windows fitted to the front of the house and I’m absolutely over the moon with them…

Reno Diaries: The Mini Kitchen Makeover Continues…

One of the first projects I tackled when we moved into the house was trying to improve our dark and depressing little kitchen – you…