Archive for Decorating

Mini-bunting!

My lovely husband decided to paint our ensuite bathroom last week when I was at work. After 4 years of living in a magnolia house, we are slowly getting there on the decorating front! The problem with painting is that it provokes further embelishment so now it needs something nice to look at on the walls.

Anyway, I was looking at this post on Buttonbag’s blog, and realised it would be fairly easy to knock together some bunting during one of Millie’s naps. I drew out one of their template sizes, but then slightly changed it to be 12 x 15 x 15 cm. As many of my offcuts of fabric have a tendancy to fray I double sided them right sides together, sewing along both 15cm sides and turned them inside out to have neat triangles. I didn’t have any bias binding to hand, but I did have a long enough piece of satin ribbon, which was wide enough to fold over, making a really neat finish along the top.

It only took about an hour to make seven triangles and finish it off with the ribbon. It’s a very petite set of mini-bunting, but it is the perfect size for the ensuite. Now we just need to choose the right picture for the wall underneath.

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Renovations: The spare room!

We’re just about to start the 3rd trimester and there seems like a lot of house still to organise before she arrives. But finally this week, some of the plans are starting to come together!

The downstairs room has now become a functional spare room, just in time for some friends to test it out this weekend! Thanks to George for helping with the Ikea trip last week, and Tom for building furniture without any help from me! My task this week was the fancy ‘dressing the room’ malarchy, which was quite fun! It’s still lacking some pictures for the walls, but you get the idea!

Stickers – the cheat’s guide to room decorating!

We are big fans of wall decoration in the stick-on form in our house. It seems much less effort than painting, and more easily changed when it becomes boring! So far the stock have come from Ikea over the years – giant poppies, bamboo stalks, trees, and more recently gold flowers in the lounge.

I was impressed today to come accross 2 new sources of stickers that are now on my wishlist….. Firstly, Habitat have some amazing pink & blue flamingos – albeit a bit pricy at £35 for a pair. Secondly there is a website called ‘Fun to see’ which sells all sorts of great things from jungle animals to Cath Kidston-esque bunting. Perhaps some nursery inspiration!

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