The one where she chose PURPLE carpet #TinyRoomMakeover
When you’ve lived for a very long time with very old carpet, you simply cease to notice it. Like you don’t notice your nose. It’s just there, doing it’s job; your eyes can see it but your brain chooses to ignore it. Same thing with old carpet – you’re so used to it, you simply stop seeing and feeling it. Stop noticing how horrible it is. Ripping out that skanky old 1980’s peach carpet was...
Made-To-Measure blinds for a kids room. Result! #TinyRoomMakeover
So we had new walls, and before we had a new floor we wanted to get as much of the messy work done as we could. But we couldn’t do the shelves util the bed was up and we saw how they’d fit around it. And we couldn’t do the bed till we had the carpet… so we got on with upcycling the rest of the furniture, painting the shelves in readiness, and realised we could fit the blind too. Previously she’d had big...
How Can you Make a Tiny Kids Room Perfect? #TinyRoomMakeover
When we bought our house back in 1992, it had been decorated throughout by the previous couple – everything was neat and tidy, and in bland late 80’s taste. We slowly re-decorated most of the rooms, pretty much as driven to by necessity: a ceiling came down thanks to a burst radiator pipe, a ceiling came down thanks to a shower leak, a pregnancy happened so a spare room had to be made into a nursery… you get the...
Bostik Craft Blog – not what you’d normally use it for… #TinyRoomMakeover
This month I’ve been so madly busy with various projects I simply haven’t had a chance to sit and do crafts with my daughter. I know, I’m a bad bad mother. BUT. That does not mean I haven’t had the Bostik out. Oh no. In fact, I’ve been a good GOOD mother. AND I had to go and buy another tube of the extra strong Glu & Fix All Purpose. I LOVE this magic stuff-in-a-tube. Properly LOVE it. Want to see...
Review – all the Tumble Dryer a large family needs.
It’s no secret that I have a beeyootiful and huge 10kg LG washing machine. And three years on it’s still in daily use. But what do you do with all that washing when the weather is the way it has been this year?I hate hate hate having damp washing sitting around the house – we won’t put the heating on for another month or so yet, so washing takes an age to dry at this time of year when it’s damp outside....
Top Tips on How To Choose A Shower
This week, disaster has occurred. The shower in our one and only bathroom has ceased to function. Anyone in a large family knows what a Major Disruption this is – there are six of us. We do NOT have time to bath (and we won’t even talk about the elderly boiler that only fills 3″ of bath water…). But we’ve never chosen a shower before – our old one has been resident in the house longer than we...