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Space-Saving Tips for your Child’s Bedroom

September 3, 2021 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Collaborative post Are you looking for ways to save space in a child's bedroom? Perhaps the rooms in your home are fairly small, or you simply want to maximise the space your child has to play. Either way, space-saving tips and tricks can improve the function and look of your child's bedroom, and create the impression that the room is larger than it actually is. Space-saving tips for your child's bedroom Here are four easy ways to ...

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Filed Under: Bedroom Tagged With: bed, Bedroom, Children, Children's bedroom, decluttering, Family home, Furniture, Home, Interiors, storage, Top Tips

How to style a living room from scratch

February 6, 2020 by Catherine 1 Comment

Collaborative post Moving into an unfurnished home can be a little daunting - especially if you're making the move from rented to owned and have been used to furnished properties. With most rooms demanding that you make lots of furniture and accessories decisions, it can be hard knowing where to start. Your first priority will obviously be the essentials: beds, basic kitchen equipment, bathroom supplies etc. Once you're up and running ...

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Filed Under: Living Room Tagged With: Flooring, Furniture, Interiors, Living Room, Natural Light, storage

Nine quick and easy bathroom updates

December 17, 2019 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Collaborative post Is your bathroom in need of a revamp? After the kitchen, the bathroom is probably top of your list when it comes to rooms that need to function well and look good at the same time.  It’s also a very important room when it comes to selling a house, and can add - or remove - a significant amount of value. A full bathroom renovation can be a very costly project, and certainly not something that you would aim to do ...

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Filed Under: Bathroom Tagged With: bathroom, Bathrooms, decluttering, decorating, fragrance, Houseplants, shower, storage, Taps, Top Tips, Towels

Kids’ bedrooms: design tips for small spaces

September 26, 2019 by Catherine Leave a Comment

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Collaborative post As the season shifts into autumn, my home projects are also shifting focus from outdoors to indoors.  We’ve done so much work to our home in the last twelve months, including a major kitchen and garden renovation, so I definitely don’t have any big plans for the near future! That said, we do need to make some tweaks to our youngest’s bedroom, and this is my next interiors job to tackle. In my experience, kids’ ...

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Filed Under: Bedroom Tagged With: bed, Bedroom, Beds, Children, design tips, Interior Design, Kids, Lighting, storage

Design tips for creating the perfect home office

August 21, 2019 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Collaborative post Does your home have a dedicated office space? With more of us working from home than ever before - it’s estimated that by 2020 up to 50% of the UK workforce will be working remotely - the demand on our homes to provide a comfortable, stimulating working environment has never been greater. Even if you don’t work from home, chances are you need to use your home for some form of ‘office’ work on a fairly regular basis. ...

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Filed Under: Interior Design Tips Tagged With: Chair, Desk, Furniture, Home office, Home working, Houseplants, Interior Design, Interiors, Lighting, storage, Working from home

Tips for maximising comfort and space in your bedroom

June 26, 2019 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Collaborative post Does your bedroom feel spacious, calm and comfortable?  I’ll be honest, right now mine is full of clothes waiting to be put away, so it’s a bit of a mess! We spend around a third of our lives sleeping in our bedrooms, and it’s the main room where we try to relax and recharge, so it’s absolutely one of the most important rooms in the home.  As such, it makes sense to try and maximise the space you’ve got, as ...

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Filed Under: Bedroom Tagged With: Bedroom, Family home, Home, Interiors, storage

Family Home Storage Tips

May 15, 2019 by Catherine Leave a Comment

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Collaborative post Having enough storage space in a family home can make a huge difference to the practicality and look of your living spaces. This guest post has lots of home storage tips on how to get it right! One of the most rewarding experiences is to watch your family grow. The problem with a growing family, however, is that sooner or later you're going to run out of space in your home. As a family grows, so does the ...

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Filed Under: Interior Design Tips Tagged With: decluttering, Family home, Home, Interiors, storage, Top Tips

Garden storage: GearHooks review & giveaway

April 26, 2018 by Catherine 72 Comments

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Do you struggle to effectively manage the storage in your outdoor buildings? I suspect your typical family shed or garage has to cope with a multitude of storage challenges - including bikes, gardening equipment, DIY supplies, toys, and pretty much anything else that we don't want to store in the house.  Here's what the inside of our shed usually looks like - be warned, it's not pretty... If I'm being completely honest, I actually had a ...

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Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Garden, GearHooks, giveaway, Home, Reviews, Shed, storage

How to increase your home’s kerb appeal

November 13, 2017 by Catherine Leave a Comment

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As the saying goes, you only get one chance to make a first impression - and that’s just as true of homes as it is of people! We form an opinion of a property within the first few seconds of seeing it, so the impression your home makes from the kerb plays a crucial role in that process for visitors and potential buyers. So how do we get that all-important first impression right? There are lots of things you can do to enhance your home’s kerb ...

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Filed Under: Interior Design Tips Tagged With: Door, Garden, Home, Home maintenance, Lighting, Paving, storage, Top Tips, Wheelie bin

Decorating tips for children’s bedrooms

July 28, 2017 by Catherine 1 Comment

iron bed

Today's guest post is full of great tips for decorating children's bedrooms and achieving a fantastic look.  Enjoy! For children, the bedroom is the most important room in their home.  Their bedroom will be more than just the room where they sleep; it's their private space, where they keep their treasured possessions, where they spend time with their friends, and also where they learn and play.  It can be the room where they spend a large amount ...

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Filed Under: Bedroom Tagged With: Bedroom, Beds, Children, decorating, Family, Home, storage, Top Tips

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