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Spring and Easter décor hacks for 2025
These Spring and Easter decor hacks for 2025 will give you some easy ideas to brighten up your home, especially when the weather persists in being grey and cold! Of course, Spring and Easter are all about new life, rebirth, and regeneration. Birds are nesting, rabbits...
Four Steps for Choosing Your Wedding Flowers
Choosing your wedding flowers can feel a bit daunting, especially if you’re ‘not really a flower person’. In this blog, I’ll take you through four steps for choosing your wedding flowers, with some top tips, to help make your day as beautiful as you could wish for....
Wedding Florals Trends for 2025
Wedding floral trends for 2025 are revealing exciting new approaches to creating stunning florals. My florist business coach often commented that florists weren’t brave enough to buck the trend and guide their wedding couples away from the same-old-same-old schemes –...
Mindful Maximalism for 2025
What exactly is mindful maximalism? This is my interpretation of what some of the style gurus are predicting for 2025. Maximalist colours mean vibrant, almost shouty, brightness. However, boldness and in-your-face colours are being rowed back a bit. So while pillar...
Pets eat weird stuff
Pets eat weird stuff. They are, by nature, curious about everything (especially cats). Taste testing is one of the ways how they explore their environment. This blog will give you my (tried and tested!) common sense hacks to pet-proof your...
Using colour for harmony in your home
We all know how certain colours make us feel, and this blog will take you through using colour for harmony in your home. First of all, according to my research, colour theory is interesting but there is still much to learn about how and why colour affects us. So...
Cottage Core and How You Can Use It
Cottage core is a hashtag bandied about on the internet without much explanation. So this blog will take you through cottage core and how you can use it to create lovely comfortable décor in your home. Katherine Livesey, a writer of fantasy fiction in the UK, as...
Three interesting places where you wouldn’t expect to see wallpaper
Home decorating is both a challenge and an opportunity to be creative. I’ve discovered three interesting places where you would expect to see wallpaper. A kind of way to tell a story about who you are, your life and how you see your home. As always, my view is very...
Three easy Spring and Easter décor hacks
Here are three easy Spring and Easter decor hacks, and a bit of history about the origins. Spring and Easter are all about new life, rebirth, and regeneration – birds are nesting, rabbits are doing what rabbits do best, you know the drill! And as days lengthen and...
How using Biophilitic design adds harmony to your home
Biophilitic design adds harmony to your home, simply, by incorporating nature into your decor. It means, essentially, love of life, love of nature. In looking into this, it seems to me to have lots in common with feng shui.
