Download your own Rob Ryan Bunting

Thanks to Stylist magazine for putting on their site a free download of the prettiest bunting I've seen - designed by the talented Rob Ryan. Just click here to go to the Stylist site and you can download the design to make your own Rob Ryan Jubilee Bunting.

Floorboards – done.

Work has been crazy the last few weeks so I am sharing these pictures later than I wanted to. But the sanding of the bedroom floorboards is done! It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be - just noisy and took a while, but it was worth it. Following advice from bloggers and…

Floorboards – dark or light?

It's decision time. Stain our floorboards dark or paint them white? The sanding equipment is booked in, so this weekend we will be taking our battered, paint covered (but lovely) original floorboards in our victorian flat and sanding them back to reveal them in all their glory. But do we go for rich, dark glossy…

Wardrobe 0, Me 1

This weekend I had a fight with the built in wardrobes in our bedroom. It was a close-run contest, but after many hours of hammering, swearing and falling off a chair, I won! So the horrible MDF wardrobes are no more. I cannot wait to get some order in the room with some shiny new…

Exposed!

So, following on from my post Narrow Thinking, my boyfriend just emailed me a picture of how our hallway is looking this afternoon, halfway through the plaster getting hacked off ready for damp proofing. And how cool does the exposed brickwork look?! Now the question is, should we replaster or leave the bricks on show..?…

Narrow thinking

I am very excited today - at this moment my boyfriend is ripping apart the hallway in our flat. We have already torn up the carpets and the ugly marble tiles in the entrance, now he is demolishing the fitted cupboards and rotten woodwork... It needs some electrics and (quite a lot of) damp work…

Warm welcome

I noticed these gorgeous yellow, sunny front doors around the corner from my work today. I stopped to take some quick pics, as yellow has to be the new colour for our own front door. How could you not be in a good mood when getting home and seeing this colour? And it's a really warm…

Growing our own

The best thing about our new flat is the garden. After the last two years living in a purpose built top floor flat with not even a window box, a private outside space in London is something I had really missed. So when we moved in December, I had already been thinking about things I wanted…

Roll up!

Ah, roll top baths. So pretty and luxurious, they can make a real statement in a bathroom. You can find original cast iron ones on Ebay quite cheaply. Fit some new feet on if needed and get it re-enamelled, and nobody would ever know what a bargain it was. It's great if your bathroom has…

It’s all about the grey

I have only ever painted my houses white. 100% brilliant white. It makes everything look bright, sparkly, clean and minimal. However it's time for a change. I am embracing grey. Ok, admittedly not a radical colour, but beautiful none the less. I am going to brave it and paint my bedroom walls in Farrow &…