Category: Celebrate interiors
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5 ways to store your books
Last weekend was so busy that I’m looking forward to settling down and catching up with some reading this weekend. We’re lucky here in the UK as this weekend is a bank holiday weekend. Therefore as long as you’re not working, there’s an extra day to catch up and rest. I’m currently reading ‘The Girl…
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Interior loves: A West Village Townhouse
During my post on Sunday evening, I shared that Toby and I are planning a move over to Kingston upon Thames in Surrey. With a possible move on the horizon comes a whole realm of possibilities for new interior decor, especially as we are probably looking at purchasing a ‘doer upper’ on our budget. London…
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Styling the Seasons: April
Welcome to my styling the seasons post for April. I’m happy to be joining in with styling this month and am grateful for the week off I had last week as I had a bit more time than usual to style a surface. I chose to style the top of a cabinet in our kitchen as…
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Styling the Seasons – February
I wanted to share another corner of our home for this month’s Styling the Seasons post. I didn’t get a change to participate in January sadly but am hoping to make this a regular contribution each month to my little blog. I struggled with the lighting in these images as this space is just inside…
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Celebrate Navy and Gold
It’s no secret around here that I have a bit of a love affair with the colour navy in interior design and never more so than when it is paired with golden accents. Take a look below for some examples: I love a navy bathroom. You can see our home bathroom makeover here. We went…
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Navy blue bathroom makeover
It’s no secret around here that navy blue is my go-to choice of colour for bathrooms. We’ve been working on updating our bathroom for a while now, saving and completing aspects of the interior as we go. Today I’m sharing our progress so far… Our first step was to paint the walls in a deep…
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Styling the Seasons: October
Well here it is. My first attempt at the #styling the seasons challenge! I wrote about this concept in last week’s Friday links and spent some time last weekend thinking about where and how to style a space in our home. I decided upon the kitchen as we have recently been painting in there and…
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Creative Canvas competition
I’ve never thought of using a large canvas print in place of a feature wall before but when I saw this idea on Apartment Therapy via the Creative Canvas blog, it got me thinking of all the places I might like to try this out in my home. With that in mind, I wanted to…
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