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My blog will explore how you can incorporate sustainable design practices into how you live day-to-day.

How to have a more sustainable Christmas
We all want to do our bit for the environment but it can be hard to balance a time of festivity and over-indulgence with sustainability and caring for the environment. Below are some tips to have a more sustainable Christmas that are achievable and can make your...

How to feel happier in your home
Does it matter if we are happy in our home? Would we be happier with life if we had a happy home? Apparently we would. These are the findings of a report that came out in 2019. The report was from The Happiness Institute along with Kingfisher. "How happy we are with...

How to Decorate Your Home for Halloween
We tend not to go all out for Halloween but like to make some effort. My decorating style is more on the softer rather than the scary side. I can't watch "Scream" without getting nightmares and I seemed to have passed on this to the kids so we tend to go for cute,...

Halloween – How to make DIY Paper Bats
This is simple DIY task to make paper bats for Halloween. It's easy to do and is very effective when you cover your walls in bats. You can stick them anywhere, walls, stairs, shelves or on your fireplace. You can make them as big or as small as you like and once you...

How to update kitchen cupboards with paint
Kitchen, the heart of the home and the place where we spend a lot of time in our home, so it has to function and also be comfortable and appealing to look at (if at all possible). I can't say the kitchen spoke to me when we viewed the house in December 2015 but it was...

5 of the Easiest Indoor Plants to keep alive
If you're reading this I imagine you've little experience with house plants or like me you've killed a few in your time. I'm not exactly green fingered and until we moved into our house I really didn't have any plants. Through trial and error I've discovered 5 low...


