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Giving A Drab Spare Room A New Lease Of Life

March 30, 2023 | Leave a Comment

It’s easy to assume that a drab room is a drab room and that it will remain that way forever. Perhaps your spare room doesn’t get enough natural light due to its orientation, or maybe your en-suite is windowless thanks to being built within your bedroom, not along an outside wall. Darker rooms that need […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle Parenting Tagged With: Home Decor, home decorating ideas, home improvments, home interiors, homeware, spare room

Easy Ways to Boost Your Home’s Curb Appeal

January 5, 2022 | Leave a Comment

Easy Ways to Boost Your Home's Curb Appeal

Whether you’re looking to sell your home or want it to look its best, curb appeal is one of the essential parts. There are many ways that you can improve your home’s curb appeal with little to no money, time, and effort involved. Read on to find out more. An excellent first impression can make […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle Parenting Tagged With: environmentally friendly home, home accessories, Home Decor, home decorating ideas, home interiors, homeware

6 Stunning Shelving Ideas To Upgrade Your Walls

September 13, 2021 | Leave a Comment

6 Stunning Shelving Ideas To Upgrade Your Walls

Shelving is such a wonderful thing to incorporate in your home for a few very special reasons. Firstly, it provides you with a bit of extra storage space to keep things. Instead of cluttering up tables or other areas of your room, you can move things to the shelves. Secondly, they give you a better […]

Filed Under: Interior, Life-style Tagged With: home accessories, Home Decor, home storage, homeware, shelving

10 Simple Steps To Add A Little Luxury To Your Home

June 25, 2021 | Leave a Comment

10 Simple Steps To Add A Little Luxury To Your Home

We all deserve to have a little luxury in our homes. However, that doesn’t mean you should spend a fortune or invest months of your life trying to make it happen. Looking for small yet powerful updates should be at the top of your checklist. Here are 10 simple steps that can be added to […]

Filed Under: Interior Tagged With: home accessories, Home Decor, home decorating ideas, homeware

Simple Tricks To Create A Gallery Wall

March 27, 2021 | Leave a Comment

Simple Tricks To Create A Gallery Wall

Gallery walls are a budget-friendly décor option that will always look good. They’re a great way to display a few favourite pieces of art or a collection of family photos. Pulling together a gallery wall of your own might seem like a challenge. Art can be expensive and curating personal photos can take a lot […]

Filed Under: Interior Tagged With: gallery wall, home accessories, Home Decor, Home Decor moodboard, home decorating ideas, home interiors, homeware

Win a Forgemaster multi-fuel stove worth £399

February 9, 2020 | 16 Comments

The Forgemaster Billy 5kw Multi stove a beautiful modern stove designed to fit a standard opening. Slim and elegant in design with a good-sized viewing window sit back and enjoy the flickering flames and you can win one with umeandthekids. New to Castfireplaces they have it on display in their showroom and with Log stores […]

Filed Under: Current Competitions, Lifestyle Parenting Tagged With: competition, heating, home accessories, Home Decor, homeware

Asda Christmas Show 2016

August 22, 2016 | 1 Comment

asda christmas

In July every year I always have a few very special events to attend in London, so July in the world of a blogger is like Christmas has come early, yes that’s right we get to experience Christmas in July, crazy right! The supermarket I was very excited to see what they had in store […]

Filed Under: Fashion, Gifts and Gadgets, Interior, Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, Party Ideas, Seasonal Fun Tagged With: #AsdaXmas, Asda, christmas, Christmas 2016, clothing, food, homeware, Party food

DFS the official homeware partner for Team GB

May 19, 2016 | Leave a Comment

DFS the official homeware partner for Team GB

***Disclaimer this post is sponsored by DFS*** We all love a good sit down on a comfy sofa. Who doesn’t love to dive onto their favourite seat at the end of a long day and snuggle up? A sofa can pull a room together, and you can customise it however you want with cushions and […]

Filed Under: Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting Tagged With: choosing the right sofa, designer, DFS, Furniture, homeware, sofa, style, Team GB

Retro Lifestyle (Old School bottles with straws)

October 15, 2014 | 7 Comments

Reminiscing about Old School bottles with straws Do you remember sitting at school waiting for the milk monitor (the chosen one) fetching your entire class a crate of milk bottles? Oh how the memories flood back, arms folded, legs crossed, backs straight, it seemed the better you behaved the faster you would get your daily fix of […]

Filed Under: Gifts and Gadgets, Interior, Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, Reviews Tagged With: homeware, kitchen, kitchen accessories, lifestyle, old school bottles, Old School bottles with straws

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