Making our homes more inviting is all about harnessing the *hygge* (clear your throat and say heurgha at the same time), or, in English, the Danish concept of sheer, unadulterated cosiness. From an interior design perspective, hygge is candlelight, natural materials, cashmere throws and cats on laps, though it can also be epitomised by a warming... Continue Reading →
It doesn't come out very often but my FrowBrow just had a moment in my fav shop looking, looking harder and looking again for something I thought, by 2016, I'd find. We designers and interior bloggers are all about the grey and have been for a couple of years now and slowly the rest of the world... Continue Reading →
Yippee! We bought a wood burner!! After much consideration this is the one I've chosen for the office, the F 100, a gorgeous 5kW cast iron multi-fuel stove by Norwegian company Jøtul, robust and solid like my home, modern in functionality, but decorative and quite pretty too. It's not been fitted yet as we've all the... Continue Reading →
I'm not saying my spuds are special or anything but if Mr M ever leaves me, his chosen one better know how to rock a jacket 'cause the way to his heart is most definitely through his stomach and he's used to potato perfection. Cooking with only an oven in winter means baked spuds feature... Continue Reading →
Flat ceilings are all very well and good but there's something magical about an exposed roof line where the steep pitched sides meet at a high internal peak to create extra volume to the space and a feeling of light and airiness. Think barn conversion, soaring church roof interior, think..... cathedral. If we're going to be... Continue Reading →
Well, that's a seriously big job ticked off for two rooms! The original plan was for builders to take up the all the floor boards of the living and dining room, hoist up the joists, re-build the internal leaves of brick work and re-secure the full timber floor, but with it being the type of back-breaking... Continue Reading →
Neither he nor I can quite believe that we're still living in building site chaos a whole year after this, but life has conspired to make our renovation go a little slower than anticipated, plus we're doing a lot more work than originally planned. How we laughed last year at sad old us not having anywhere... Continue Reading →
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