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Designers Guild sofa

Joy unconfined – I have a new sofa

OK so a very quick recap – my beautiful sofa is a design classic, bought from eBay and much treasured. However it invented the phrase ‘numb bum’. For a look at the sofa itself, and even more painful posterior information, check out my original post here. But today I’m delighted to share with you that […]

Abigail Ahern faux flowers

Fabulous fake flowers

What do you think of my new display of beautiful tropical blooms? I’m in love with them. They came from Deptford Poundland and this stunning bouquet cost a fiver.

Bathroom project

Yeh, so I like to mull things over for a long time. Back on the bathroom again. Things are happening though now and this is what it looks like just now with the floor going down…. To recap I’m tiling a small area around the bath, basin and the whole of the shower in white […]

swan vase

Moody swans

My mum came back from France with an unusual collection of gifts for me. Not only collected by herself from various brocantes, but also sourced by my junk-shop-loving cousin, who is also doing up a big old place in the French countryside. And so a collection has really begun… …aren’t they lovely, these moodily lit […]

Repurposing candle holders – the new ’empties’ trophies?

I was hoarding old finished candles from Diptyque that I couldn’t bring myself to throw away – they’re so blinking expensive. And I started to notice scenes like this emerging in interiors magazines and Pinterest. And it dawned on me. Is this really just the moneyed grown up person’s version of making their ’empties’ into […]