Visiting your local DIY superstores or independent garden centres are both great for picking up smaller plants, but if you've a reasonable budget and don't want to wait years for plants and trees to become more established, investing in more substantial specimens is a way to get immediate impact in newly designed gardens or bare corners.... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary: I Get Tweetin Seatin!
It only seems like five minutes since we started digging out the dark woodland corner of the garden to create some seating, because the whole area has now taken on a life of it's own! Whilst I was down at Clerkenwell Design Week, Mr M & Brickie Brian built up the pillars to take the... Continue Reading →
Road Trip : Factory Lux & Urban Cottage Industries
No-one can miss all the fabulous coloured cables and industrial style lighting rocking the coolest interiors at the moment, and now you need to know where to both buy it and buy it stylishly whilst also supporting British production. I first featured Urban Cottage Industries/ Factory Lux here, when I was sourcing for Splendid Kitchen and... Continue Reading →
How Do I: Make My Home More Eco-Friendly
I know, I know, we're all packing away our thermals and getting the Fake Bake onto pasty legs, but in all seriousness summertime is the best time to think about keeping your house toasty next winter. As a woman living for over 18 months in an unrenovated, unheated Edwardian house, I've become an expert on... Continue Reading →
The Moregeous Month – March ’16
Trying something new this month, I hope you like it! I get so busy with client work, our rentals/Airbnb and the renovation here at Moregeous Mansions that it's sometimes a little difficult to find time to share the fabulous things I spot every day. Seemed like a great idea to do a round up on... Continue Reading →
How Do I: Choose Between Gas and Induction
I've always been a gas girl, cooking with instant heat up or down. Who wouldn't have been persuaded that gas was the real Deal or No Deal by adverts like this.... https://youtu.be/upml_E1Jrug But, the times they are a changin' and if the cool kitchens at KBB 2016 proved anything, it was that smooth is the... Continue Reading →
The Home Reno Reality Of Sharing A Loo
Credit: Shutterstock / Jennifer Bui/Thrillist An article on HuffPost REALLY made me laugh this morning. Apparently "Couples that are happy talking about Poop are the happiest couples". Yes folks, that's poop, like the stuff small poodles do. It makes for a "more relaxed, more intimate, more hilarious union". Having spent 18 months living on the... Continue Reading →