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Making Your Home A Heavenly Haven This Winter

Winter is upon us, and it’s officially the season of staying in and snuggling up. As temperatures continue to tumble, it’s crucial to make sure that your home is ready. Here are some wonderful ways you can turn your home into a heavenly, cosy haven this winter.

5 Simple Steps To A Cosier Living Space

When you’re trying to work on your home decor, it can be hard to decide what you want. Because there are just so many options. And you might not know what kind of look and design that you really love the most. This means that you might end up putting off some of your home decorating, because it seems so overwhelming. However, one of the best ways to do it, is to break things down by room. Because when you start in one place, with a smaller project, it’s easy to get the ball rolling. And then, you can choose the decor based on the rooms function. When it comes to your living space, you will often want this to be cosy so that it helps you to relax. So let’s take a look at five key things that can help you to make your living room cosier.

5 Creative Shared Bedroom Ideas

Some children hate the idea of having to share a bedroom with their sibling, while it may sound like an absolute dream to others. Whichever applies to your family, it is important to ensure that each child has their own space in their shared room, and their personalities still shine through using specific furniture types, colours and accessories.

Make Your Home Uniquely Yours With These Simple Ideas

Sometimes you might find that your house just doesn’t feel uniquely yours. You know that people have lived in it before you and it seems like it could be anyone’s home if you were to just walk in. There are some simple things that you can do to make your home feel like it belongs to your family and only your family. These ideas aren’t going to take a lot of time but will have your home looking personal in no time which you might find leads to a big improvement regarding how you feel about it.

Make A Good First Impression With Your Hallway

The hallway is often the first room guests see when entering your home and yet most homeowners spend little time decorating it. Here are just several tricks for making your hallway stand out, helping you to create a good first impression.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Decorating a Nursery

For many parents, especially those expecting their first child, decorating a nursery is one of the most challenging things to do. It is very tempting to just add everything the baby would need to the (often limited) space, but doing so will make the nursery feel cluttered and less functional.

If you are facing this challenge, you have come to the right page. In this article, we are going to take a look at some of the best do’s and don’ts of decorating a nursery. Let’s get started, shall we?

Top 3 unique & fun things to do with your family this Christmas

The top 3 unique and fun things to do with your family this Christmas

Christmas is always a great time to spend with families. There is just something magical about Christmas that makes everyone enjoy the season. During Christmas, families seem to have a mini-reunion as relatives from far and wide gather together to celebrate the holidays.

4 Tips To Selecting The Best Bar Stools For Your Home

Now that you have an eye-catching bar set up in your abode, you will need bar stools to accompany the area. Selecting the best bar stools for your home is not exactly as easy as a walk in the park. It´s because there are various factors to consider and some of these factors are style, looks, comfort, and convenience etc. While some prefer stationary bar stools, there are others that love swiveling around in their bar stools. There isn’t a dearth of bar stools available for purchase on the market. However, the ones worth purchasing are very few and far between. Luckily, you need not lose your sleep over deciding the ideal bar stool for your home as we have listed 4 tips to help you make your decision. Have a look below! For more information on bar stools, you can visit the site, danetti.com.

Fish Mobile

This is a very easy craft that we made during the Easter holiday break. Both of my children love fishes and so we decided to make this fish mobile to hang it in our conservatory. We spent at least 20 minutes to colour all the fishes and took me around 10 minutes to thread them into this simple yet beautiful fish mobile.

Easy Christmas Craft

If you are looking to personalise your Christmas gift or Christmas tree with your children’s craft, look no further. Baker Ross have a range of pre-pack Christmas crafts for everyone. They are also great for stocking fillers.

How to Choose the Best Awning for Your Home

Awnings are an incredible solution for numerous homeowners. The right awning choice can add style and a pop of color to your home while also serving a functional purpose. While providing shade and comfort, you can get so much more out of your awnings. With so many awning options to choose from, the process of finding the ideal fit for your home and your particular needs can be tricky. There are many factors to take into consideration when choosing the best awning for your home.

Fabric and Colors

Making heavenly creations with Cake Angels

Today is another cold and wet day and Mr C needed to work. So we decided to bake cupcakes and decorate it with Cake Angels.

I had not heard of Cake Angels until now and now I wish I knew about them earlier! I know in supermarkets they tend to carry big brands like Dr. Oetker, Renshaw, Betty Crocker, and of course the supermarket’s own brand. What makes Cake Angels so special from the rest is that their ingredients are unique and made in the UK.

I have received these products from Cake Angels:

Christmas Activities with Vertbaudet

This Christmas holiday period, Vertbaudet has created a new Christmas activities page to keep children busy in the run up to Christmas. There are 10 different activities – if you run out of ideas, why not have a look at their activities page and get inspired. Create and pin it on Pinterest. Then maybe they could ‘show and tell’ it to their class.

Each of the activities comes as a PDF file that are straightforward to print out. There is an Advent Calendar, Paper Garland, Paper Pompoms, Letters to Santa, Colouring Pictures, Christmas Gift Tags, Woollen Pompoms, Bake Some Biscuits, Christmas Carol and Paper Stars.

After the children came back from school this afternoon, we printed out four different activities to do together.

1. Letters to Santa

There are 3 templates to download: A traditional Christmas tree, a very cool snowman or a pile of presents that you can colour in yourself.

Mr K chose the pile of presents and Ms C went for a very cool snowman. Mr K was very excited to write down his list – this is the first year he can properly write words. Reading his requests made me laugh out loud! He wanted seeds and a plant pot to grow his plant! An egg timer to time himself running, cocoa so he could make chocolate and a mug!

While Ms C has only one request which is Ariel. So she drew a mermaid that looked like a bee with seven water bubbles around her to breathe.

Five tips of creating more light into our house

Have you thought of how to make use of your existing furniture or perhaps getting a new glass door fitted to get more sunlight into your house? It is always difficult if your house is not facing the right direction of the sun!

Buying the right house is not easy and there are often compromises, especially around the aspect of the property but you could swap around your furniture, get better lighting or change to a glass door to get more lighting in.

We bought our new build house 5 years ago off plan. It sounds a little crazy but yes, we had bought it blindly. Our living room rarely gets bright light shine into the room. So we bought a beautiful flower floor lamp to go with our room. The floor lamp was placed in the darkest corner of the room and we use it on those typical dull rainy days to illuminate that part of the room.

The dining room is also another dark room. It used to be get a lot more light but this is the room that backed out to the garden and we’ve since had a conservatory built so the dining room gets a lot less light now. So hopefully, we can replace our existing door to bi-folding doors to allow more light into the room. Besides light, having bi-folding doors also creates more open living space and will make the room more accessible and appear larger.

Home Improvement Unsung Hero Competition

This is a competition entry for Home Improvement Hero by MoneySupermarket.

I am not really a hero but more like an unsung mummy. I did most of the house redecoration like painting, wallpapering and fixing lights. Last week, I was trying to replace my bathroom light bulb and unfortunately I dropped the light cover and smashed it on the floor. While I was trying to catch the cover, I slipped and fell down the ladder. It was quite a bad fall that I cut my finger, grazed my arm and bruised the right side of my leg. We have now had to replace the light and so it has set back our financial. I wanted to spend more on a nice photo for my husbands office but now we have to make do with what we have left.