French cleats are the easiest and most affordable way to hang heavy items on your walls. We love using them and are sharing exactly how to make French cleats so that you can make the most of your space. We use them for everything from hanging heavy items like our giant pegboard in my office to attaching our modern slatted radiator cover to the wall, and we even use them to keep all of our tools organised. What is a French Cleat? A French cleat is a simple bracket that you can use to ... Read the Post
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DIY Lasercut Advent Calendar Train + The Ultimate Crafting Tool Review
Ad // This post is in collaboration & contains affiliate links. We only recommend products we love and think that you will, too! Read our full disclaimer here. With December just around the corner, we’ve just finished making our first Christmas project of the year - a Christmas advent calendar train. Would you have guessed that you can make something this amazing at home? Oh, and had I mentioned that you need absolutely no creative skills to make it? Thanks to our new Longer ... Read the Post
How To Lighten Stained Wood Furniture
There are so many tutorials on the internet on how to lighten stained wood furniture. They go through so many options, steps and endless lists of supplies that it can be difficult to know where to begin. But, amongst all of these options, there is one very easy way to lighten dark stained wood furniture - all you need to do is sand it! Yes, it’s that simple. And, if you have a piece of furniture that’s too dark or not the colour you’d like it to be, we’re sharing exactly how we ... Read the Post
The Possibly Prettiest Floor Lamp Ever + We Need Your Help!
[Ad - this post is in collaboration with Tom Dixon & contains affiliate links. Read our full disclaimer here.] If you’ve been following us for a while, it’ll probably come as no surprise that I’m fussy when it comes to most things, and that’s especially true of anything I furnish my home with. It’s rare that Jan and I find anything, and both agree that it’s perfect for us and our home, but when we saw the gorgeous Beat Floor Lamp by Tom Dixon while browsing the shops in London before ... Read the Post
Jungle Vibes at the 25Hours Hotel Bikini Berlin
Ad | We received a complimentary night and breakfast at the 25hours Hotel Bikini Berlin. We were under no obligation to share this blog post and chose to do so in support of a company we love. If there’s one thing we enjoy, other than DIY of course, it’s to travel. Over the last few years, we’ve been lucky enough to visit a few fantastic and sometimes fairly exotic places like Cambodia, Budapest and South Africa but a couple of weekends ago we had an entirely new travel experience. We spent a ... Read the Post
B Is For Berlin (+ A Free Printable Letter Art!)
I can’t believe that we’ve already been living in our new home for almost two full months! The last few weeks and months have been such a blur. We completed our second move (in the space of six months) and we've completed nowhere near as many DIY projects as we would have liked! This apartment is already feeling much more like home than our temporary rental. Knowing that we’ll be here for a long while definitely plays a huge part in feeling settled but something that I always find makes ... Read the Post