You might have noticed things have got a little quiet round here. I’m trying my hardest to keep up with my blog, but if you’ve heard my ongoing rants on Twitter, we are currently living in a building site and it’s starting to grate on me now. It’s amazing how having part of your house
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A quick guide to Urban Gardening
As well as being good for the environment and a great way to create a sustainable food source, gardening is such a therapeutic exercise. I do have a garden, but it’s on the tiny side and is only a small patio area so my gardening techniques are limited. If you don’t have any space to start
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5 ways to decorate your home on a budget
As 2016 is the year of the home renovations, I’m all about the DIY at the moment. However, home decorating and renovations just seem so amazingly expensive. We have employed professional builders to do the main bits of the renovations (can you imagine me knocking down a wall… I’d take out the whole house!) however,
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Bathroom Planning Part 1
So, this weekend we did something VERY exciting! We bought our new bathroom and planned to have some major renovations done on the house. We currently have the tiniest bathroom in the world, which is in the most ridiculous layout. I won’t embarrass myself by showing you pictures, but basically it looks like a 90
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PANASONIC Smart Home Monitoring & Control Kit Review
Since becomuing a home-owner I always have security in the back of my mind. Technically, we do have a guard dog… however I’m not sure how good he would be, to be honest he would probably just greet an intruder with a waggly tail and a lick, so I doubt we can rely on him.
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Springtime Home Additions
This year, our focus is going to be all around doing our house up. We moved nearly a year ago and have already done so much to the house, however (like always) there seems to be so much to do. Instead of holidays and travel, this year is going to be all about making
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HOME: DIY Goals – Restyling our living room floors
When we moved into our new home in February, we knew we’d have a huge amount of DIY Goals, however the flooring was never one of them, until recently. At first, I was overjoyed that our new house came with decent quality, neutral coloured carpets throughout. I’ve always preferred carpet to wood/tile flooring, simply for
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LIFE: It’s time to pick my strawberries (+ 4 amazing strawberry recipes!)
It seems like only a couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about learning to love my garden. I had only just bought my first plants and tentatively planted them in the hope they will grow, and not wither and immediately die. Well, it’s all happened rather quickly, I planted the strawberries in a
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HEALTH: Get a great nights sleep with SleepPhones
It’s no secret that I’m a really awful sleeper. If there was a real- life Princess and the Pea, it would be me. So, I was really touched when a really lovely, friendly company got in touch offering to help me out – they stated I could get a great nights sleep with SleepPhones, so I
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LIFE: I’m a Home-owner!
Well, you may have noticed things have been a little quite around here.. Suddenly, out of the blue, our house-sale completed after over 3 months of waiting and before we knew it we were packing boxes and excitedly loading things into the car, on our way to the new place! We celebrated our first night
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HOME: Dreamy Bedroom Pinspiration
Looking at buying houses has got me thinking about decorating our new place. Since moving out of home at 18 I’ve only ever lived in rented flats, which has meant there was never much room to decorate or make a place my own. So, you can imagine how excited I am about the prospect of
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HOME: A handy guide to decluttering
I’m not normally one for an infographic, however when I saw this handy guide to decluttering my house, my ears pricked up. Just recently, I have been spending my weekends trawling through boxes and boxes of stuff after moving in with Vanessa. It’s so difficult trying to combine two people’s worth of stuff into one
