My bedroom is my little sanctuary. A place where I can go and escape with a good book or even go and watch the TV all by myself with a nice glass of wine in the evenings if I fancy it. I used to love a lazy evening watching the telly in bed or having … Read more
Sleep – it’s great whilst you’re getting plenty of it but it’s tough when your sleep is less than satisfactory. Now, I am a sleeper. I love my sleep and I tend to need lots of it but if there is one thing guaranteed to give me a bad night’s sleep it’s a rubbish pillow. … Read more
A shared bedroom will help your children bond quickly and teach them to share from an early age, as they will be used to sharing a bedroom.
Whether we like it or not our kids will become teenagers and many of your reading this will have already had to process that and are now the proud “owners” of one or more headstrong teens. The thing about being a teen is that you feel you know it all and you feel like you … Read more
Have you ever walked into someone’s home to find an array of colours as if they went wild with an artist’s paint palette or similarly, a house which is wall to wall white? Do you ever stop to correlate this with their personality? I do and this is a question being asked by Julian Charles … Read more
In 2016 I said goodbye to an exceptional lady. Now that her estate is closed, I can think about spending the inheritance to use it to it’s the best advantage.
When I was growing up I didn’t always have the biggest bedroom but my Mum has always been very clever with interior decor and layout so she always managed to make my room feel like the tardis. Just because a room is small, it doesn’t mean that it can’t look great or have amazing storage, … Read more
For many homes extending into the loft is the obvious answer. It’s a large unoccupied area and can create a loft bedroom with bags of character and style.
All of us have a guilty secret lurking somewhere in our homes. It hides behind a closed door, and rarely receives any visitors. The things there have been there for years, yet nobody has used them, looked at them or even thought to discover more about them. They sit there, waiting. They’re there because you convinced yourself … Read more