How To Brighten Dark Rooms

How to brighten dark rooms

Want to know how to brighten dark rooms? These three steps will help you lighten and brighten — and shed a little more light on the situation!

Updating a Room with a Radiator Cover

Have you ever considered updating a room with a radiator cover? I’ve spoken about our ensuite bathroom before and how I was desperate to give it a makeover. Although it’s a nice sized room — with a lovely, old cast iron, roll-top bath — it was fairly bland; and uninspiring, to say the least. It certainly wouldn’t …

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Chiaroscuro | Decorating with dark walls and mirrors

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we’d painted our snug. And if you happened to be flicking through my Insta Stories, that day, you’d have seen the action taking place; and the paint actually going onto the walls in real time. The room had been a mid-dark grey for quite a few years but in a …

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181 weeks and 6 days | Dust {& a dining room makeover moodboard}

Whenever I hear the word ‘dust’ I immediately think of the Little Britain sketch with the irrepressible Fat-Fighting Marjorie Dawes; ‘Dust. Anybody? No?   Dust.’ But over the last couple of months ‘Dust’ has taken on a totally new meaning. There seems to be dust everywhere. My she-shed is still full of dust. It’s certainly looking more room-like …

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A Chest of Drawers Makeover With Chalk Paint

Disclosure: I upcycled my IKEA chest of drawers with chalk paint I’d bought. But I was gifted some beautiful drawer-knobs to complete my chest of drawers makeover too. Trinca-Ferro have  so many lovely designs to choose from — pop along and grab some inspiration from their website. The Easter bank holiday gave me so many opportunities to roll up my sleeves and …

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