Tag: diy decor

  • 5 Mistakes Every Renovator Needs To Avoid

    5 Mistakes Every Renovator Needs To Avoid

    Renovating, on paper, seems like a simple task. You buy a house, make it pretty, sell it on (or keep it). In reality? The process is a whole lot more complicated. The following steps are big factors in determining how well your renovation goes (and how sane you stay in the process). For an easier…

  • 10 Tips for Renovating With a Family

    10 Tips for Renovating With a Family

    1. Talk If they’re old enough to understand, talk them through everything. Explain that life at home will be a bit different for a short while, but to think of it as an adventure. 2. Keep a Journal If your child/ren are old enough to stick, glue, doodle or write, encourage them to keep a…

  • How To Give Your Walls An Aged Plaster Effect

    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…

  • How To Make A New Floor Look Old

    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…

  • Composing a Flatlay

    Composing a Flatlay

    Flatlay photographs can be funny old things to produce. Some days they come easily and all the props just fall into place, other days nothing sits right and there is no cohesion. There are a wealth of tips out there on the internet to getting the right structure in a flatlay to make it visually…

  • Tutorial: Rustic Book Stacks

    Tutorial: Rustic Book Stacks

    Everyone has that one person in their life who embodies Christmas at the festive period. I am your person. I went DIY crafting mad last year and these book stacks were just as much of a hit with my followers (I call them friends – does that make me weird?) on Instagram. So when the…