Category: Home Renovation
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DIY Coastal Cottage Bookshelf Remodel
Happy Tuesday friends! I am so excited to share our lastest home update on the blog with you all this week. My husband and I purchased this stained, solid pine, double bookshelf unit for only $200 on Marketplace! The lovely couple who it originally belonged to even delivered it to us, so it was an […]
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Winter Warming Living Room Tips
My focus for this winter, was to enhance the comfortability of our living room. It’s the space we retreat to every night, with the fire blazing, to unwind after a hard days work. It’s also the room we host friends and family in, so functionality is equally as important. Furnish With Lots Of Seating Everyone […]
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DIY Piano Upholstery
It’s amazing what a small and simple fabric update can do to a space. We loved our dainty upright piano, the moment we saw it. From its cabriole legs and petite frame, it has such a delicate presence in our home, and absolutely nothing can beat the soft melody from a piano on a sunny […]
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How To Brighten A Room Without White Paint
There is a large misconception out there that white paint is the only way to brighten a room. This could not be more false! What matters most when selecting a paint colour, is its LRV. What is LRV? It is the Light Reflective Value of paint colour. It refers to how well the light bounces […]
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Cosy Fabric Hack To Protect Your Sofa
Creature comforts are a large part of what makes a house a home. If you’re anything like me, there is nothing more therapeutic than curling up on your sofa after a long day’s work. So as much as I adore home design, fine textiles, fabrics, and furniture, a house is not a home unless it […]
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How To Furnish An Odd Shaped Room
The original owners of our house used what we consider to be our current living room, as their formal dining and seating area. There were a few issues we had with this when it came to us figuring out the best purpose for the space. It divided the room into two separate spaces that rarely […]
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Decorating with Budget-Friendly Foliage
Anyone who walks into my house knows that it is covered with as much foliage as possible! For me, arrangments breathe life and soft charm to a room. They are little bright moments on a gloomy day. How can I maintain a constant flow of floral arrangments, all year round? Although I’ll never refuse a […]
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Thinking Small When Decorating
One of the greatest lessons I’ve come to learn with interior design is to think small. Focus on the little details, the little moments in a room that grows to collectively gather a space. I’ve been paying a lot of attention to my living room of late. It’s where we spend most of our nights. […]
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Affordable Rugs for Living Spaces
Rugs have an invaluable role in tying any room together. From pattern to texture, colour and shape, they set the tone for the living spaces, and for how comfortable you feel within. When it came to choosing our downstairs living room rug, I knew I was on the lookout for two things: Soft, traditional style […]
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Small And Simple Cottage Garden Beds
A garden should be an enchanted haven away from the world outside. A space for climbing roses and shading trees. A place where one can grow and harvest from fruiting plants, and tend to the land. As lovely as that sounds, it’s not always the most practical goal is all one has is just a […]