The long nights and warm days of summer mean only one thing - it's time to take the inside out and create a fab entertaining space in your garden! But hang fire.... before you do, maybe it's time to give some thought to making the space useful as well as gorgeous? Summertime cocktails and barbecue... Continue Reading →
How to Create a Buzzingly Beautiful Bee-Friendly Garden
Have you noticed that everyone's buzzing about getting more bees in their garden? We've always tried to be bee-friendly with our Moregeous gardens so with that in mind, I set out to make one of the three garden spaces I designed for my Bents Challenge especially "Buzzingly Beautiful" It was made very easy for me to... Continue Reading →
Trend Watch: Gardens Going Grey, In A Good Way!
I've fallen a little in love with all things grey in the garden and I don't just mean with my very own silver fox Mr M. A lovely hour browsing online confirmed that although it's not properly caught on everywhere, lots of people agree that exterior grey with lush planting looks fabulous and can look equally gorgeous... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary #51 My gorgeous garage wall complete with inset brick boxes
Way back last summer, all those months ago, a germ of an idea wriggled it's way into my head that I didn't want a boring brick wall on the side of the garage/workshop at the all new Moregeous Mansions. Not that the wall would have been boring mind, constructed with beautiful, character filled reclaimed red... Continue Reading →
Planning my 5 steps to a bright, glamorous urban yard space
After the indoor interior design Splendidness of the last two weeks, it's now time for me to get outdoors and transform a dark and dingy urban yard into an impressive entertaining space as part of my HomeSense & Huff Post challenge - I'm keeping everything crossed for sunny Spring Manchester weather! I'm going to be reinventing... Continue Reading →
How to create a contemporary stepped garden, with a warm natural feel
Granted, it's been a while coming, but the little stepped front garden we've been working on is finally finished (apart from wall tops, fencing, more planting and a gate!). I've blamed the Manchester weather for the delay but in truth it was mostly that thing called 'life' getting in the way. The garden was perfectly adequate... Continue Reading →