https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDVovh89fgY&t=6s Dream gig or what?! I'd a fabulous time chatting with Insta-Queen Lisa Dawson this summer in her geeeee-orgeous Yorkshire home. This one is all about finding your core style and being true to your interior self - sometimes hard to do in a world filled with 'inspo'. I'll do a 'proper' blog post soon... Continue Reading →
How To Upcycle ‘Brown’ Furniture: Tips on Painting & Replacing Mouldings
Just like Rocky a few short months ago, this ginger tinged sideboard adopted when we bought Moregeous HQ several years ago was sorely in need of some tlc. He'd been stored in an outside shed, ending up not only scratched and damp damaged, but also bereft of several of his decorative insert beads. I think... Continue Reading →
Inspo: Why You Need A Jewelled Velvet Statement Sofa
Now clearly I'm not suggesting that Statement Sofas have suddenly been invented and no-one's ever had a Statement Sofa before. You only have to look at Instagram and the hot hot hot accounts to know this. Be prepared though, for 2018, they're exploding onto a high street near you, as seen at the Spring Fair... Continue Reading →
Clean 18 : Switching To Our Glass Milk Bottle Delivery In Manchester
I fear I may have peaked early. My best decision of the 2018 is a done deal. It's all downhill from here. Even though the small, family run dairy farm I could see across the fields from my bedroom window had a proper name, "Worsleys", the bottles which appeared every morning on our doorstep were... Continue Reading →
Farewell Faktum, hello marvellous Metod
I've had to bid a fond farewell to a loyal friend this week after an 18 year close working relationship. We've been through thick and thin, long days and piles of cardboard, missing bits and too many legs. Faktum has been a stalwart since my very first property, many client homes and virtually all of... Continue Reading →
How to bring some vintage Pin-Up glamour to your window blinds!
2014 is all about personalisation and creativity, so how about some vintage sunshine in the form of these rather beautiful printed blinds by Nottingham based company Creatively Different? The ladies you see are the Lovelies, part of a series of about 160 illustrations drawn in the 1940's by British artist David Wright as 'pin-ups' for The... Continue Reading →
Half a Hawthorn under attack, and all eyed by a hungry robin
A very overlooked part of the garden came under attack this weekend, a part filled with an overgrown holly hedge (loved by our robin), tatty topiary, an appalling lawn and sloping unloved beds. My house is a funny shape, sort of elongated, so we use the garden off the kitchen ALL the time and this... Continue Reading →