Fabulous Accessible Interiors
If you're like me, you run to the DIY store, buy an armful of tester pots and then proceed to checkerboard your walls in a variety of 10cm x 10cm boxes, using a small dribble of the tester pot. Then you have to struggle to paint over the walls with all the different underlying colours! [...]
Recently I wrote a post on my friend's home in Cornwall where we did a lovely cheap nautical makeover in the bedroom. The other makeover we did in this house was to update the beams in the living room and kitchen. The house is a small fisherman's cottage overlooking the sea and has beams in the ceiling [...]
We moved into our 50's bungalow in December 2014 and luckily for us, the kitchen is fairly new, having been extended into a large L shape by previous owners, newly fitted at the same time, so it's probably about 5 or so years old. It's white and fairly innoffensive. There's lots of storage cupboards, under [...]
With autumn around the corner and a few jobs lurking around the house unfinished I decided today would be the day to catch up on a few things and make some quick easy fixes to the house with little or no money spent! Result. First job of the day was to complete the painting of [...]
Like my blog generally, I'm a couple of years late to the Upcycling and Chalk Paint trend. I had read about it in a variety of home magazines and spent many an hour online looking at blog posts and 'how to' videos and thought it really couldn't be that easy. Could it? You see, I'm [...]