Ad disclosure: Sponsored post. Our house is very much a work in progress, and we are taking our time making it exactly how we want to be. Part of the changes we make to each room as we decorate is choosing what artwork we want to display in there – blank walls are so uninspiring! …
Eight years ago James and I sold our first car and bought a people carrier, which I lovingly named The Tank, in order to accommodate our growing family and all the baggage that goes along with having two young children. I was pregnant at the time so I got hilariously emotional about saying goodbye to …
Living where we do in South Birmingham means that we have to be mindful of our home security. Find out what we thought of the Kami Outdoor Security Camera, and the Wire-Free Outdoor Camera.
This post includes a collaborative link. Back in 2017, when the world wasn’t quite such a terrifying place, I spent weeks converting the spare room into my perfect little home office, complete with a daybed for guests & everything I needed to work. Fast forward three years and that cosy little office is no longer …
Back in 2015 we mashed together an Ikea Kura mid-sleeper bed with our old Kritter junior bed and some Trofast storage, to make a toddler safe bunk bed for the girls to share. Last winter, now that we no longer need to keep Lydia from climbing ladders, we upgraded it to a double bunk bed. …
Around this time five years ago, we had our offer on this house accepted and were preparing to purchase our first house. We didn’t get the keys until March the following year, but we knew which house we’d be moving in to – and boy, does it need a lot of improvement.
My new home office is basically 90% Ikea. I love their furniture, it’s affordable, practical, and lasts years. Also, you can customise it so easily to fit exactly what you want. This is our custom side table which I made to be a multi-functional piece of furniture. It’s next to my day bed so needs …
Over the Summer holidays last year we converted the spare room, previously a dumping ground for all outgrown clothes and other odds and ends, into a beautiful home office so I could have a proper workspace. It’s no exaggeration to say that I absolutely love it. This room has become my personal space, my haven, …
The girls have a small child-sized Ikea table in the living room, which they use to eat at, play at, draw at, craft at, and generally make various messes at! Over time, it has lost it’s shiny & smooth white surface, becoming a rather less attractive mixture of stains, chipped paint bits, and rather weird …
I have been hankering after a nice bedside light for a while so when Valuelights gave us a few options to choose from for our latest review, this birds lamp jumped out at me. James & I both enjoy wood textures rather than plain, so this lamp fits right into our bedroom.
