Category: Interiors
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5 Places To Find A Homewares Bargain
(and they are sustainable, planet friendly choices!) Ah, the cost of living crisis. You can’t avoid the mention of it, and you most likely can’t avoid the consequences of it either. What does it mean for our beloved homewares shopping? Well, it means we might just have to be a bit more savvy in our…
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7 Space-Saving Tricks for a Small Bathroom
I’m calling it now, our family bathroom has one of the smallest footprints for a family of five. However, I’ve never really understood the need for a large, luxurious bathroom. You’re not all in there at the same time, right? And you’re only in there to do one of three things. We’ve never found our…
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10 Ways to Thrive in Small-Space Living
For some, small-space living is a choice. For others, it’s a direct result of urban or suburban living. Whatever the circumstances behind it, living in a condensed footprint can come with its challenges. This post offers ten simple ways to get life streamlined, take the stress out of small space living and begin to thrive…
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12 Home & Interiors Books To Read This Year
There’s a whole wealth of inspiration on social media (and the internet, in general) but sometimes a good old-fashioned flick of a coffee table book is just what the soul needs. Whether you’re curled up under a blanket in the heart of winter, or sunning yourself in the garden with a mojito to hand, there’s…
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How To Give Your Walls An Aged Plaster Effect
Smooth, untextured walls be gone! Old houses call for traditional building methods, one of which is lime plastered walls. That bumpy, crumbly effect instantly offsets texture and very little more is needed to make the wall stand out with va va voom. There were a few walls in the house, however, where we either could…
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How To Make A New Floor Look Old
Renovating an old house is almost certainly going to raise some issues. One of the biggest ones we discovered in our house was rotten floorboards. Glorious, rustic, textured wood boards, rotten to the core. I could have cried. In fact, I think I did cry. Some could be salvaged and reclaimed, but a lot had…
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5 Minimal-Effort Ways to Refresh Your Kitchen
It’s January; no one wants to put more effort in to something than is absolutely necessary, and that includes our homes. The catch is, everyone longs for a freshen up. For ourselves, it’s a haircut. For our cars, it’s a valet. For our homes? Well, that can get expensive. But it doesn’t have to. The…
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5 Steps to the Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic
Wabi-sabi. Not a sushi dish, but a rather beautiful and organic lifestyle mantra whose origins trace back to the 16th Century. The Japanese term for finding beauty in imperfections has made it’s way into how we design our homes. The result? A raw, rustic and imperfect design aesthetic. Think of it as a more indulgent…
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Making Your Home A Happy
When I wrote my University dissertation a lifetime ago, it didn’t take me long to choose a topic. The Psychology of our Built Environment is a fascinating subject, and one in which you can easily pull an Alice and get lost down a rabbit hole. What is it about a chapel that makes us fall…
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Bringing The Outdoors In With Biophilic Design
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction” Edward O Wilson Biophilia – a term coined by American biologist Edward O Wilson in the 1980’s if you want to get fancy – is the theory that humans hold an innate attraction to nature and natural elements. When we incorporate that…
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