All posts tagged: Healthy Home

Where to start…? (a guide of what to spend your money on at home)

Happy January 2017 everyone. We made it! I enjoyed my week away from work, writing, interiors and all things loft extension, but it’s now time to crack on with life again. And i’m ready for it. It’s at this time of year, after taking the Christmas decs down and giving the house a good clean we start thinking about making home improvements and giving our homes a bit of love. My inbox has been rammed since December with people wanting some help, advice and design work done in January. Which is brilliant of course. Home Office in a Day My first day back at work in 2017 was a full house consultation in Manchester. The homeowner had been working really hard to save some money in order to give her family home, a lovely 3 bed, pre-war semi an update. When you’ve got several rooms to tackle, each room with its own issues and problems, it’s hard to know where to start. The last thing you want to do is go about it the wrong way, and …

Green Fingers

Last year, I experienced something i’ve never experienced before… A serious love of gardening. Any spare moment I had I was at the garden centre, or pottering in our back garden planting, painting, weeding and generally trying to make it a beautiful place to be. And you know what, I did a pretty good job. For a complete noob. My relationship history with house plants, however has always been pretty abysmal. I either forget to water them all together or forget i’ve already done it and drown the poor buggers. And so, I don’t really have many house plants. Well I didn’t. I’ve been ogling lots of lovely spring styling online and in particular the Urban Jungle Bloggers site, who have really inspired me to try again. Here’s their ethos. I like it. “Urban Jungle Bloggers is all about living with plants – in your home, in other interiors, in public spaces. We want to highlight the beauty and benefits of houseplants and other greeneries in urban spaces. Living with plants is not merely about styling and …