Am I Weird to Want a Laminate Bedroom Floor?
I always knew I was wa-a–ay ahead of the trends… (does it count of you do something 2 years before it become ‘trendy’? Or does that just make you a bit odd?) When we had the extension built 12 years ago, it was an amazing opportunity to start afresh; we had complete blank canvases in three new bedrooms and a huge living room – but the budget was tight, so we had to think practically about what would work...
VQ Christie – LOVE this clever & pretty little digital retro radio
Ages ago, my beloved leather-clad vintage-look kitchen radio slowly died a crackling, buzzing, untune-able death. When I looked for a replacement, I had just two criteria – that it would look stylish and lovely in my kitchen (basically it needed to be pretty enough to raise a smile every time I turned it on), and that it would have an iPod dock; a lot of my audio books are on my iPod, and they’re my listening of choice for...
Dear Parents, Even Your Non-Gamer Teens Need A Gaming Laptop
You may of course own a Gamer Teen like me – one who has been wailing for months that she neeeeds a new PC (but seriously – where are you going to PUT one?). Or your teen (and you) may think Steam is simply what makes creases come out of clothes (and concentrated-chicken-poo-dog-sick come out of the carpet…).Either way, they Need A Gaming Laptop. So we need to make a few things clear. Firstly – Gen Z teens NEED...
Environmentally-friendly home makeovers
With all of the scary newspaper headlines illustrating just how much trouble our planet is in with pollution and global warming, I’ve been trying to implement a few new methods in my daily routine so as to minimise my global footprint. From taking a walk to the shops rather than driving, to simply using recycling bins (or trash receptacles as my Americanised teens hilariously insist on calling them… *sigh*), there’s...
Bedroom Makeover – looking for furniture
So we’ve settled on a bed, on carpets, wall colour… but the wardrobes. Oh lordy, the decisions that involve the wardrobes. The trouble is, our bedroom isn’t very big. Once you add a decent-sized bed in there (after twenty years, I think we earned the right to upgrade from a 4’6″ to a 5′, right?), there really isn’t all that much room left. Right now, we have the sliding-mirrored-door wardrobes...
The Bedroom Makeover is underway…
Finally, after a year of thinking about it (yeah, who am I kidding? I’ve been meaning to re-do our bedroom for 15 years. At least.), I’m actually in the middle of planning the bedroom makeover. It all started with the ‘9 things this Woman Craves From her Bedroom’ post from last summer. I mean – I spent aa-a-ges planning and researching that post; it would be a crime if that all went to waste, right? So...