Simple Tips For Painting Cabinets
Renovating a kitchen? Painting cabinets is a great budget-friendly solution to updating your kitchen without breaking the bank.
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Transform Your Space With These Simple DIY Home Projects
Want to transform your home on a budget? These seven DIY home projects are really easy to do, but will totally transform your space.
Make a Simple Yarn Christmas Tree Garland
Looking for an inexpensive way to decorate your home for the holidays? An effortless and cost-effective way to pretty up your home for the festive season is to make a simple Christmas tree garland from yarn.
How To Paint a Piano in 3 Easy Steps
Want to know how to paint a piano in 3 easy steps — without priming? My simple piano makeover tutorial will tell you everything you need to know!
Learn How to Revamp Your Furniture with Furniture Paint
Breathe life into your furniture with furniture paint. Choose from various colors & finishes to see dramatic effects without breaking the bank
DIY Pergola Ideas To Create The Perfect Outside Room
Are you tired of your boring back garden? Let me paint the picture: just grass and a small concrete patio? Maybe a tree if you’re lucky. Now let’s spice that backyard up. These DIY pergola ideas will elevate your outdoor space and give you the garden you’ve been dreaming of. We have three complete DIY …
How To Create Easy Faux Wall Panelling
Have you ever wondered how to create easy faux wall panelling? I’ve always loved the elegant panelling that can be seen in stately homes; it’s a really effective way of adding charm to a plain wall. And, although our little cottage is full of period features, the walls are fairly plain. Particularly the wall up …
Valentines DIY Tealight Holder Using Armour Etch (Free Love Heart Cut File)
Make a cute DIY tealight holder using my free love heart cut file for the Cricut!
How To Easily Remove a Wall Plug (or Rawlplug!)
Have you ever come to do your decorating prep and wondered how to easily remove a wall plug? This simple method works a treat!
Create a DIY Indoor Planter From a Recycled Coffee Tin
The days are getting longer and warmer and spring is on its way. Thank goodness! Remind yourself that brighter days are coming by creating this DIY indoor planter from a recycled coffee tin. Perfect for spring bulbs. It’s so simple to make. You can even add a little phrase if you have a label maker …
How To Paint a Chest of Drawers in Cottagecore Style
Simple, homespun interiors have been in fashion for decades; under different guises. The Cottagecore aesthetic appears — once again — in this year’s top 10 interior trends. And it shows no signs of slowing down or decreasing in popularity. In this post, I’ll show you how to paint a chest of drawers in Cottagecore style. …
Make a Cardboard Dove DIY Christmas Garland (Plus Free Dove PNG File!)
I love creating seasonal garlands. Edible biscuit garlands at Christmas; paper Halloween banners or cute Easter bunny garlands. They’re always fun to make; plus they help make the house look seasonally festive too. My new creation makes use of all the delivery boxes that keep arriving at this time of year! It’s a cardboard dove …
How to Make Festive DIY Paper Fan Decorations For The Holiday Season
Looking for a really easy, crafty make for the holiday season? I’ve been making wallpaper circle fans for many years now. I first wrote about them in 2016 and they were made out of pretty wallpaper; perfect for a summer party. But DIY paper fan decorations are also fantastic for Christmas too! These round paper …
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 …
Operation She Shed | #5 The Build {Painting The Interior}
Part 5 of Operation She Shed is all about painting the interior. I said from the start that these posts weren’t going to be that sexy — and I wasn’t kidding — but in order to see the butterfly, you have to begin with a dull old chrysalis. Or something like that. Anyway. Just to put this …
Operation She Shed | #4 The Build {Boarding & Insulating}
Part 4 of ‘Operation She Shed’ — and this time round I’m talking about boarding and insulating. Now, I warn you, this isn’t going to be the sexiest post in the world. The pictures are not the best quality and the content is more function than form. That said, I never intended to just show …
Operation She Shed | #3 The Build {Part One}
In January this year, my boy and I finally embarked on the project that I’ve been desperate to start since I began working for myself around a decade ago; Operation She Shed. I’ve always wanted a dedicated work-space. Having a room in the house is OK but when you work from home — on a full time basis — you can begin to …
Operation She Shed | #2 It’s all about the base
Now — apologies if you’re looking for an inspirational, design-led post, full of colour and style. You certainly won’t find it here!!! Inspiration, maybe, but certainly none of the others. I wanted to document this she shed journey from start to finish and the build is not exactly what you’d call ‘pretty’. Anyway, around this …
Operation She Shed | #1 My Flatpack Garden Office
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you’ll know I work from home. You’ll also know that I’ve been dreaming of of a garden office for the last three and a half years. I used to have a dedicated workspace — a room that housed everything I needed — a GIGANTIC printer, my desk and computer, guillotines, folding machines, …
