Interiors
-
How To Save Money When Redecorating
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…
-
Cheap Kitchen Renovation: how I transformed my kitchen for under £250
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 I Get the Stained Glass Look in My Home?
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…
-
Creating a Light and Airy Home
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…
-
B&M Self Adhesive Floor Planks: a Cheap DIY Bathroom Update
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…