Buying a new sofa can be a really exciting time. This is a large purchase, which will hopefully be a really enjoyable piece of your home for many years to come. The sofa is often where many of us spend the most time relaxing and socialising when we are at home. It is therefore vital to choose a sofa that you love. However, the price of a sofa can often play a part in your decision making. With that in mind Robinson of England, a bespoke furniture manufacturing and restoration company helped us put together a few tips for you which will hopefully save you some money when the time…

When you bring a newborn baby home you will be unsure of yourself. It’s natural that you won’t want to leave your boy or girl alone in their own room and continually have them sleep in your bedroom. But eventually, you’ll need to design a room for them and let them get some sleep and rest on their own. Thankfully, there is no shortage of baby interior design styles. In fact, there are more each year, as more and more colors, schemes, themes, and decor seem to be released from all the best brands. We’re going to show you how to forge your own baby room and make it magical,…

Fresh, bright, minimalist and functional. If this is the interior you crave at home, then the Scandi style sounds like it’s the perfect fit for you! Redecorating can be an expensive task but there are plenty of cost-effective methods that can be taken to create brilliant Scandi styles without breaking the bank. DECLUTTER! At the heart of Scandinavian design is the minimalist approach. Therefore, decluttering should always be the first step when transforming your home into a Scandi haven. Take a tip out of Marie Kondo’s books and get rid of items that don’t bring you joy and ensure everything has its own place. This can be a great way to…

We have just submitted our planning application for our new kitchen extension. It will double the floor area of our existing space and will provide us with a large kitchen, dining and entertaining space. I can’t wait! I have created a wish list of all the elements that I hope to include in the design of our new space: A large island I love to cook so I would love to have a large island with a hob on it and bar stools on the other side. My kids are young now, but looking to the future, I can picture them perched on the stools doing their homework whilst I…

Unprecedented numbers of us are now working from home either on a part time or full time basis. The BBC reports that home working is here to stay for the long run. I believe this is great news for workers in terms of our work/life balances – not having to commute cuts out a lot of stress from our lives, plus there is the added benefit of getting to spend more time with our families. On a personal level, having spent so much more time at home in general over the last seven months, it has made us really think about our own house and its suitability to being a…

Redecorating your home can be a costly venture, there’s all sorts of costs involved in buying your decoration materials, costs for delivery, installation costs, etc. But there are ways to make redecorating your home a more accessible and budget friendly task, for almost any budget there are ways to cut the cost of a redecoration project to be within your price range, now lets look at how you can cut the costs for your very own home improvement projects. Tip 1- Shop Online Where Possible For the most part, anything you can find in a brick and mortar retail store, you can find online for a much cheaper price at…

Last summer we did a cheap kitchen renovation but this blog post about it has been seriously delayed because I was waiting for the kitchen to be immaculately clean and tidy to take perfect ‘after’ photos. Well, turns out, with 2 pre-school children and a dog I would be waiting forever for that day so I have just bitten the bullet and here we are: the story of our cheap kitchen renovation. We moved into our current home in the summer of 2017. It was clear that the previous owners had spent a large amount of money on the kitchen – there was a Rangemaster cooker and the units are…

Can you think of a more beautiful way to light up a room than with a colourful stained glass window? Their jaw dropping appearance is beloved across the world and regardless of whether you live in a modern or more traditional home, you too can enjoy the timeless beauty of stained glass. The proficiency required when creating a stained glass window is quite extensive and if you’d like to have one installed in your home, you will need to hire the help of a professional.  Stained glass windows can usually be placed anywhere where there’s a normal window. A lot of the time, people choose to place them as a…

The house that I am currently living in is the fifth home that I have owned, so I have had lots of fresh starts in terms of deciding how I wish to decorate. Each time I have moved, through trial and error I have gradually refined my tastes and I can now say that I am very happy with how my current home is decorated and furnished. I used to be into bold and opulent prints and colours (I still have a Cadbury purple 3 piece suite to remind me of that phase…) but now I am much more into a more basic, bright and airy Scandi style. I have…

Here’s how I made a huge change to my bathroom at very little cost thanks to B&M self adhesive floor planks: A couple of years ago we paid a tiler £250 to lift up our old, broken tiles in our en suite bathroom and fit new ones. Not long after, the the new tiles were beginning to show hairline cracks (some of which were getting bigger and bigger) – very disappointing. Recently it was getting to the point where the cracks were exposing the porous part of the tile underneath the ceramic shell so I knew something had to be done. We definitely don’t have the budget to pay someone…