Category: HOME

5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Garden Area

Gardens are supposed to provide a retreat from the modern world and create a peaceful, relaxing environment. Unfortunately, too many of us have tiny terraces and overgrown lawns that accomplish...

Monitoring and reducing home air pollution with Fooboot.

We often think about air pollution outdoors – but what about the air inside our homes? Most of us spend a lot of time in our homes, so surely the quality...

Review + Giveaway || NEW Yvonne Ellen Range at Wax Lyrical

I love my house smelling nice, there is always a diffuser on, some incense burning or a scented candle lit. So when Wax Lyrical offered to send me some samples...

5 steps to creating your dream bathroom

The bathroom is often one of the rooms in the house that gets the least love, as it is ‘only’ used for spending a penny or having a wash in....

Budget-friendly home renovation ideas

Budgeting doesn’t have to mean low-quality renovations, there are many ways to keep the cost under control when renovating your home. With some careful planning, a little imagination and some...

Top tips for giving your guest bedroom a refresh

For those of us lucky enough to have enough space for a guest bedroom, keeping it clean and tidy can be a struggle. More often than not, ours gets piled...

4 Eco-Friendly Home Improvements to Make a Positive Impact

Are you eco-conscious? Is your home eco-friendly? If you’re thinking, “yes, of course,” you might be unintentionally fibbing. Seventy-nine percent of Americans consider themselves eco-conscious, according to a recent survey from...

4 Quick and easy ways to make your house feel more like a home

We can all get a little to used to the layout and style of our homes; we like the comfort of familiarity! But sometimes it can be difficult to know...

Five quick decor changes to add more light to your home

With February just around the corner, I’m already counting down the days until Spring is officially here. It’s still cold and wet here for hte most part, though we’ve had the...

A cosy living room area

Ah! While spring may be a little way off yet, I always find January gives me the urge to do a little early ‘spring cleaning’/decluttering/reorganising in my home. I LOVE...

The Ideal Family Kitchen (and how it can be Eco-Friendly)

Gone are the days when the kitchen was just a place to cook. It’s now a place where you catch up with family and friends, the children do their school...

A home to-do list

I’ve always loved doing a bit of DIY. I can remember being a little girl and watching my dad paint walls and build furniture. As a teenager I loved re-decorating...

Winter Home Makeover ~ creating a cosy space

The temperature has really dropped here this past week, though it’s been the kind of late Autumn days that I love – clear and crisp, blue skies, clouds of steam...

Making your period home more energy efficient

I’ve always had this dream, of living in a centuries-old cottage, complete with wooden beams and open fire, in the middle of nowhere with a white picket fence surrounding the...

Getting ready for Christmas Decor

Please tell me I’m not the only one who’s getting excited about decorating the house for Christmas already?! Come the middle of November and I start to get impatient, we...