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 #63 How to expose old brickwork for that bare brick effect
So you saw our exposed brick where and why last week and now I can show you some of the hows too! We're well underway creating the bare brick feature walls in the hallway and landings at Moregeous Mansions and it's been a very dusty, dirty couple of weeks. Not only did we need to remove three... Continue Reading →
Lacquer and gloss on walls & ceilings – My 2015 how, when and why
It seems the design savvy are going la-la for the lacquer look right now, with posts by some of my favourite bloggers lusting over glossy walls and finishes. So why now? Well.... It was inevitable really, after years of the design rule being matt, matt and more matt, with occasional chalkiness thrown in. Where there's a... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary #35 Today’s 3Rs: Ridges, reclamation and rubbin’
Woop woop! After timbers, breathable membrane, laths and slates comes the final step in making a reclaimed roof water-tight... sitting the ridge tiles (RTs) on the very top and sealing all the gaps. If you look at the image above on the right, the long navy blue gap you can see to the front is... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary #33 Dormers, buy two get one free?
No major build comes without it's hiccups and often these hiccups are very hard to spot on flat plans. In my experience, the renovation of old houses can only be done successfully with constant monitoring and adaption. As you can see, the initial plans for the remodelled West Wing elevation included two dormers to the steeply pitched roof... Continue Reading →