If you’ve been following this blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a complete sucker for original features. It’s the main reason that we bought our last home and, if I’m completely honest, I got so distracted by the amazing ceiling in this apartment, that it’s probably the main reason we purchased this home, too! Let’s face it, who could resist naked ladies on the ceiling? But the ceilings aren’t the only period features in our apartment. We’re lucky to have original floorboards, ... Read the Post
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3 Practical Reasons To Paint Your Walls Dark
Last week we revealed our newly painted master bedroom. To say that the difference is dramatic is a bit of an understatement. The first time we used dark paint was way back in 2010 when we painted our office a very dark blue. It felt like a huge move back then but we loved it and it actually made the tiny room seem larger than it was! Using dark colours is a much more trendy thing to do now and one thing that’s for certain is that once you’ve gone dark there’s just no going ... Read the Post
6 Project Fails That Didn’t Make It Onto The Blog
With so many perfect interiors in Blogworld it’s easy to think that everyone who shares their home on the internet lives a perfect life full of lunches as trendy cafes, unlimited decorating budgets and projects that never go wrong. Now, I’m not saying that we never go out (I snapped the picture below at a recent visit to the very cool House Of Small Wonder), as clearly evident by our lack of home progress, but we are real people with an annoyingly real life budget. Progress for us is slower ... Read the Post
Our Art Nouveau Apartment
Welcome to our home! After making the life-changing decision to move from Manchester to Berlin, we finally found the perfect apartment in the Charlottenburg area of the city and moved in in March 2017. Let’s start at the beginning… We’d been looking for a new home for about 8 months when this one popped up on the internet. I want to say it was love at first sight but the truth is that it was all wrong. It’s outside of our preferred area (just), it’s close to the motorway and ... Read the Post
5 Must Have Power Tools & Where To Use Them
I don’t know about you, but we’ve definitely made our fair share of mistakes during our home improvement adventures, and one of our biggest ones was skimping on buying new tools. Let’s face it: when you have what feels like hundreds of different jobs around the house to tackle, and you know they'll all be expensive, the last thing you really want to be doing is spending more money on tools you might not need. We’re definitely big fans of borrowing tools from friends and neighbours or ... Read the Post
Quick Fixes In The Kitchen
As much as we'd love to already be stuck knee-deep in a messy home improvement project we've had to get a few less exciting jobs out of the way first and cleaning the kitchen was top of my priority list. I don’t know about you but for me having a clean kitchen makes everything else that’s wrong with the apartment seem less of an issue. I’d still really like a new kitchen but given that we’ve just spent a fortune on a new apartment and already have dozens of home improvement projects planned ... Read the Post