At Long Last … It’s Bedheads and Broomsticks
Well, now it’s up! I think the bed needs a whole load of sumptuous pillows underneath (sumptuous is so my favourite word right now) to really carry it, since it’s sitting quite high up but nonetheless … isn’t it fabulous? UPDATED to include pics with more pillows and closeups of the bedhead:
Working it out
This morning, I was woken by a wet nose in my ear as my dog decided it was time for me to wake up, and I’d been lying in for far too long and I found myself springing out of bed like a gazelle. Not, for once, for fear of what the dogs would do [...]
Spring Cottage’s Makeover
I was colour-scheming last week, having decided that my poor old living room was looking a little bit tired and bland. It has been suffering old-cottage-itis, which is generally speaking where it gets painted cream, gets a little bit grubby the way cream-coloured stuff does and began to slowly blend in with all the other [...]
To Paint or Not to Paint, THAT is the question…
In getting the kitchen sorted out post-flood, my attentions have rather wandered from the rest of the house, which is nagging me and sending occasional reminders my way that it could cheerfully do with a little attention. It’s the decorating curse: once you have one room as you want it, all the others look shabby [...]
Budgeting is a creative pursuit…
This post was rather inpired by Lauren, over at A Typical Atypical, who recently blogged about money and budgeting in her Rags to Riches post. It’s a subject near and dear to my heart, as I’m sure the world and its wife knows1 by now, but Lauren’s post inspired me to look at it from [...]
Wanted
Hello fellow bloggers, I’ve been busy fantasy window shopping again. A danger to myself and my wallet without a will of iron but so far I’ve survived unscathed. A subtle hint to some of my beloved family and friends would be to look at some of the GORGEOUS items below on my wish list :0) [...]
Tick tock, tick tock
God, I’m exhausted. Just a short one really, partly to prove to myself that I am actually not dead or asleep. Day-to-day things have generally been taking over, not leaving as much time as I would like for things of a more creative and/or decorative nature. Well that and my addiction to the new series [...]
Things are a-happenin in the kitchen…
About halfway through the kitchen as I’ve been at work for the last few days and haven’t had a chance to get into my scruffs and get cracking on the walls but here are some photos of progress … (The kitchen currently looks like it has a split personality. One side’s finished and the other [...]
When I'm painting kitchens …
With a double day off mid-week, I decided that it was time to get cracking with painting the kitchen, as the current mix of old ivory paint, bluey green bathroom paint and brown plaster is slightly less than fetching decor. Actually deciding on the shade has been an interesting experience. I frankly never knew I [...]
Pretties and Pictures
I had a little bit of a shopping spree yesterday. None of it was vintage or second hand (apart from the bed head idea but I’ll come to that later) but it WAS lovely … so here are some pics of the loveliness. Then I made the fateful mistake of going to the local reclamation [...]
Finishing touches…
Golly Gee Whizz. What a week. It’s been a bit of a week, altogether! The lovely builders finished the last bits and pieces off for me this week … grouted the kitchen floor, and put up some curtain poles for me, which is rather lovely. Unfortunately, it now means that everything that’s left is down [...]
Milk Churns …
It’s been ages since I managed to post anything here. Everything has been slightly bonkers with about a million things going on at once, and it totally slipped my mind to keep all up to date. News is minimal, what with working for a living and all … but excitingly I managed to find a [...]
Whims and fancies
Although I am by nature, a very practical and down-to-earth sort of person, I have a slightly more whimsical side to my nature which I enjoy indulging from time to time and a mid seventeenth century cottage seems to be the perfect place to do so. Since I was a little child, I have loved [...]
Pretty Painting …
With great gusto, the painting has begun. I still haven’t quite decided on the colours of the bathroom/kitchen, although there is a front runner but I’ve settled on a nice ivory shade for the walls in all the other rooms. Whereas Magnolia is slightly more peachy, the ivory has slightly more of a yellow hue [...]
Reflection
You know, it’s so gratifying when you can begin to see things coming together. I always had a feeling that things would work out well here but it was entirely down to instinct and no small amount of optimism. It’s been a lovely experience, getting to know people, watching the house come together and getting [...]
Kitchens Ahoy
Sorry to be a bit remiss with the posting, but the last couple of weeks have largey been spent trying to make some sense of the kitchen units, sans instructions and getting the tiles down. Progress has been a bit slow but here are the photos of progress so far: Chaos in the kitchen as [...]
Award Winning Builders
In a mad bid to get the kitchen finished this week, my fabulous builders Martin and Sue from the Green Earth Construction Co have been working late and especially hard. I think they are two of the loveliest people on God’s earth and I am SO glad I got them to do the work on [...]
Promises, promises….
It’s a lovely spring morning in Somerset, and so I took the dogs out to play whilst delivering some postcards to local businesses, plugging my new website. If you happen to know of anyone in need of a good web designer, I’m your gal. A shameless plug, I know … but a girl’s got to [...]
Waiting impatiently
In search of contrition for my absence for my absence from blogland, I offer a full confession to you. It’s been utterly chaotic for the last couple of days, and my camera ceased to function, which sadly resulted in no photos for your edification and delight, and me collapsing into bed last night with a [...]
Kitchen update
Not a long one today as utterly exhausted. Came home on Friday to find the kitchen wall demolished and the downstairs bathroom totally taken out – woop! See photos below. My builder and his girlfriend are wonderful people. On a not so cheery-making note, the company who’s supplying my furniture ‘forgot’ to make my bookcases [...]
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