Lighting is clearly a major part of my life so I knew I’d have quite a lot to talk about when it came to this part of my blog. I struggled with where to start when discussing the subject, do I delve into the first fix electrics or take a step back and talk about […]

This week is a little different to the last few weeks as I’m not leaving my kitchen….just yet. See, I told you I love this space! Kitchen lighting is such a difficult area for people to get their heads around so thought I would focus there this week while the kitchen is still fresh in […]

The kitchen, for me, is the heart of the home. When we were growing up, the kitchen was everything. It was the office, the dining room, the meeting room, the arguments, and the reconciliation space. To me it was and still is, the most important room in the house – I wanted to get it […]

I don’t know why exactly but I’ve always had a love for real wood floors so I did feel this was the way we would eventually go even before we went looking. When we bought our cottage, the first things I invested in were teak parquet flooring and a cast iron bath! Both of which […]

I never placed any importance on windows until it came time to start choosing my own – for a while there it was pretty much all I could think about! After spending so much time living in our dark, pokey cottage before beginning the design, we knew windows would be central to opening up the […]

Building Blocks I might know about light, I might think I know about interiors, but I know I do not know about the structure of a new build! This element was definitely left to my dearest husband. He spent most of his formative years working summers on building sites with Sisk. His father was a […]