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  1. Christmas Decorating: Ideas for your Festive Interior

    Christmas Decorating: Ideas for your Festive Interior

     

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year – and yet, there is so much to do in order to be prepared for the big day. If you’re starting to think about decking the halls, and you’re looking forward to welcoming guests again this year, then you’ll want the holiday spirit to be felt throughout your home. If you have children, their excitement is often contagious – especially once the advent calendars come out! So, with that in mind, this year is most definitely the year to go big with your Christmas décor – and we’ve got some wonderful ideas lined up for you in this post. 

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  2. How To Hang Pictures And Wall Art: The Definitive Guide

    How To Hang Pictures And Wall Art: The Definitive Guide

    Painting or wallpapering is just the first step in making your house or apartment feel like home, and many of us don’t feel at home until we’ve put our photos, art, and ornaments that we love around the place. But if you have collected even a small number of pieces of art, then sometimes it can be difficult, and you might be left wondering how you can hang art so that it looks its best. If you’re new to choosing art, let alone hanging art, and you’re not even feeling certain where to begin, we’ve put this post together for you. 

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  3. Stylish Dining Room Ideas To Impress Your Dinner Guests

    Stylish Dining Room Ideas To Impress Your Dinner Guests

    Dining rooms are often neglected in our homes – especially where homes have seating in the kitchen, and where family members are working to different schedules, it can be hard to make the most of sitting down and eating together. But when you’re socialising with friends and family, that’s when your dining room really comes into its own. Cosy Friday dinners for two, Saturday evening dinner parties with friends, Sunday lunches – and not to mention Christmas dinners – they are all times when you want your dining room to look fantastic, even when it is just two of you! Taking time to create a stylish dining room ahead of socialising with friends is something you’ll thank yourself for – and is definitely a feature of your home that your guests will envy, and enjoy coming back to. 

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  4. Inspirational Living Room Decor Ideas

    Inspirational Living Room Decor Ideas

    Your living room should be more than just a place that your TV and your sofa is, and that you slob out in your pyjamas in on an evening. There are so many ways to create a great living room, and whether your taste in a great living room is elegant, cosy, sophisticated, or even historic, there are some great ways to elevate your living room, and to create a space that you can be proud of. In this post, we’re going to take a look at some of the most intriguing ideas to inspire your living room, no matter how much space you have to work with. 

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  5. Home Spring Cleaning Tips, Checklist, And Chemical Free Homemade Cleaners

    Home Spring

    Spring cleaning isn’t just reserved for the spring – and while tackling the whole house in one go can feel overwhelming, taking it one room at a time means that, once it is done, you’ll be able to keep on top of your cleaning on a weekly basis. In this post, we’ll be sharing some of the greatest tips and tricks for keeping your home clean, without needing to use harsh chemicals.  

    If you’ve got children, pets, a member of your family suffers from allergies, or you just want to avoid using harsh chemicals to avoid health and environmental concerns, you don’t need to spend a lot on pre-made natural cleaning products. There are some great natural products that can be used for cleaning that are just as – or even more effective than using chemicals. The great thing about most of these natural cleaning tips is that they are incredibly inexpensive, and so as well as being better for us and the environment, they’re also great for your bank balance! 

     

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  6. Designer Tricks For Brightening Up a Dark Room

    Brightening dark room

    As so many more of us adopt the practice of working from home, being able to use as much space as possible is essential for our health and wellbeing. Little wonder then, that those tiny box rooms, dark basements, and windowless attic rooms are being pressed into service, whether they’re being turned into office space, or we’re swapping rooms around. But particularly dark and dingy rooms, without a lot of natural daylight, don’t always inspire us to get in there and really make use the space. 

    With that in mind, we thought we’d pull together some of the best tips and tricks that we know designers use regularly to make the most of darker spaces, so you can make the most of every inch of your home. While some of our tips will involve getting the stepladder and some paint pots out, if that isn’t an option because you’re renting, we’ve got plenty of ideas that will help you to make those darker rooms more liveable.  

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  7. Hygge: How To Embrace The Cosy Danish Concept

    Hygge

    Hygge is a central part of Danish homes, and the concept of hygge isn’t going anywhere fast. Scandinavian styling of the home has been trending for a while now, since the clean, uncluttered look feels minimalist without actually doing away with all your possessions. While hygge is part of the inspiration for many Scandinavian designers, it isn’t just about décor – it is about so much more than that! However, despite the styling being relatively easy to get right, with no particular right or wrong way to do it, there are some key things to understand about the idea of hygge – so let’s take a deep dive into what it is and how to achieve it.   

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  8. Sublime Summer House Ideas To Spruce Up Your Garden

    Summer House

    To spend time in a summer house on a sunny day is one of life’s little pleasures, and as we have all spent a lot more time at home over the past year and a half, there are more and more of us considering adding a summer house to our gardens. Some of us are looking to create a garden room purely for pleasure, while others want their summer house to fulfil a specific purpose – whether that is an office, a workout space, or a room for a hobby. Whatever type of summer house you’re considering, in this post we’re sharing some fabulous ideas, as well as answers to key questions that are often asked before summer house builds are undertaken. 

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  9. Fun Home Office Ideas That'll Skyrocket your Creativity

    Fun Home Office

    A home office is where many of us spend our days (and indeed, for many of us, our nights!) these days. Whether you began working from home since the start of the pandemic, or you’ve recently changed jobs in order to be able to spend more time at home and shift your work-life balance in your favour, your home office shouldn’t be an afterthought. 

    Before so many of us made the switch to permanently working from home, the odd days that we did work at home were pretty simple to handle. We’d either have our laptop at the dining table, on our knees on the sofa, or maybe we’d be found WFB – that’s working from bed! But since moving to home working in the longer term, we’re finding that working like that permanently isn’t great for us – not just in terms of productivity, but also for our posture and general health, with increasing numbers of worker

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  10. 2021 Colour trends for every room in the home

    Spending so much time working from home recently has got many of us thinking that it is time to freshen up our homes, but it can be hard to be inspired if your home hasn’t been different colours before, or if it is the first time you’ve been let loose with a paintbrush. If following trends is important to you, and you want your home to reflect that aspect of your personality, then you’ll be here to find out the exact shades that are trending in the home. 

    In this post, we’ll be looking at colour giant Pantone, paint brands Dulux and Benjamin Moore, and stock photography behemoth Shutterstock’s selections for colours of the year, considering colour psychology and why it is important for the home, how to add colour temporarily and in bathrooms, and whether using more than one trend at a time is a good idea, before looking at homeware trends that are big in 2021.  

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