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8 ways to get your home Autumn ready

8 ways to get your home Autumn ready

Apparently a month’s worth or rain is going to fall in a few hours today. Great. It’s the 19th of bloody August and the first day of my “holiday”  this summer. The rain is torrential and not going to stop any time soon. So the crazy golf and...
MY INTERIOR DESIGN MISTAKES

MY INTERIOR DESIGN MISTAKES

My very own interior design mistakes (and how to learn from them). How many times do you hear a professional, qualified accountant hold up their hands and admit to screwing up? Yeah, never. Yet I hear hot-shot interior designers admit to mistakes all the time. Oliver...
Where to find interior design inspiration

Where to find interior design inspiration

Inspiration noun “The process of being mentally inspired to do or feel something” Let’s face it, nobody just wakes up one day with their perfect new living room design in their head. We all need ideas and images to bounce off or totally steal. As...
HOW TO BEAT RENOVATION FATIGUE

HOW TO BEAT RENOVATION FATIGUE

It happens to all of us.  It doesn’t matter how well you physically or mentally prepare for your renovation. There will come a time when your positivity will wain, your excitement will dissipate and your bra will be so full of brick dust you just want to walk out your...
Good, cheap, quick – pick two

Good, cheap, quick – pick two

Have you heard the saying? You can have it good, you can have it cheap, you can have it quick. But you can only pick two. You can never have all three. And I mean never. I only heard of this saying in the last ten years, the unofficial husband refers to it all the...
SHOULD YOU PAINT ABOVE THE PICTURE RAIL?

SHOULD YOU PAINT ABOVE THE PICTURE RAIL?

Should you paint above the picture rail? More specifically, should you paint the wall colour above the picture rail? Or, bring the ceiling colour down to the picture rail? It’s a long-debated question in the small world of interiors. It’s that bit of wall that sits...