Award Winning Portable Water Fountain

I fell in love with Hydria's all-in-one water fountain when I saw them being demonstrated at the recent Blogon event

This fantastic compact fountain is designed to be used indoors or out, is portable and uses innovative technology.

Time-Saving Tips for Redecorating Your Home

Redecorating your home is very exciting, but it can be a lengthy process. Whether you're updating a single room or transforming your entire house, the task can take more time than expected. However, with some strategic planning and time-saving tips, you can streamline the process and achieve beautiful results without feeling overwhelmed. This article has some tips to help you redecorate your home more efficiently.

7 Ways To Transform Your Home Into A Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Haven

Are you striving to live a greener, more eco-friendly life? To do so, start by turning your home into an eco-friendly haven. Small changes can make a major impact; from cutting waste and reducing energy usage to improving resource use. Making an effort towards sustainability doesn't need to be expensive or difficult - these ten tips will get your journey underway so that together we can work towards creating a healthier planet!

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How to Make Tidying Your Home a Breeze

Did you know the average Brit spends 2175 days of their life completing household chores? That is a lot of time spent folding clothes, tidying, and cleaning! Most people would agree that tidying their home is far from their favourite task. In fact, you can probably think of at least one hundred things you would rather do with your time than spend it tidying up your house.

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Why Decluttering the Home is Good for the Family

Living in a family home can be busy and untidy. As a parent, you have a hundred things to think about at once, including cooking, cleaning, playing with the kids, and taking them to their classes and activities. However, decluttering should also be high on your list of priorities.

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4 Things To Consider When You Remodel Your Family Home

If you are considering remodelling your home, there are a lot of ways to make sure that you do it right and that you are ultimately happy with the results. In truth, this is the kind of thing that is actually very easy to make sure of, as long as you are approaching it in the right way. In this post, we are going to take a look at some of the things you should consider if you are remodelling your family home. As long as you are thinking about these, you should find that the results are a lot more successful.

Beautiful 'Just to Say' Gifts from Cotton & Grey

Cotton and Grey have come up with a really beautiful gift package, one for yourself or a loved one to help with relaxation and mindfulness.

Their twenty-minute candles were born after a friend of theirs was struggling in lockdown.  Thanks to these beautiful Beeswax Candles and affirmation cards, this helped her to relax and restore her wellbeing.  I think this is wonderful and the best kind of why a business is born.

Are linen sheets softs

I recently finished reading Loved Clothes Last by Orsola De Castro and while it concentrates on slow fashion, how to make your clothes last and how to challenge fast fashion, one comment Orsoal made was how she loves linen duvet covers.

Orsola mentioned how the sheets keep you cool in the summer and warm and snug in the winter and loved the feel on her skin.  This comment stayed with me and I went and had a look at my bedding.

Review of beautiful miniature 3D model kits

Brainstorm has launched more lines to their popular and sustainable EUGY collection, and we absolutely adore them!

Made from environmentally friendly, biodegradable card with natural eco-friendly ink and non-toxic glue, these are a great gift for children to get involved in.

How to make your home office as individual as you are

From personal experience, one thing the pandemic has highlighted to me is how flexible my work is and how I can work from home without it affecting the quality of my role (and homeschooling aside) it is actually more beneficial for me to be at home for the detailed analysis work that I have to do.

The fact that I've been at home and will continue to after the pandemic, means I will not need my car so much and therefore reduce my carbon footprint.

Making Your Walls Do More For You

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I would like to make a bet, or rather, an educated guess, that you've been picking up and tidying away things a lot more in the last year than ever before? You might find yourself looking around the house every evening and see everything from toys to school books to work stuff strewn all over the place.

With the home becoming a quasi office and school for most of the week, you may now see things quite literally piling up in every room. Whether you're sick of seeing laptops left on the floors, tablets stuffed down the side of the sofa, or books now being used as doorstops (yes, it is a reality for some of us), you'll be looking for ways to free up space and help bring rooms back to normal.

Review of the new Dreamtex National Geographic Duvet Set

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What better way for your child to go to bed then with these beautiful jellyfish lighting up the way for them.

How to transform your spare room into a craft room

One of my assignments for my Interior Design course was to revamp my old box room into a craft room, and I was pleasantly surprised that this doesn't need to cost a small fortune to convert!

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Turn your photos into a work of art

In our modern technological world, let's not lose the art of printing out our favourite photos, and what better way to do this than to have them displayed as Canvas Prints.

A Vivaciously Vintage Home Without The Cost

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In a weird twist of fate, retro styles are coming back into fashion with a bang.  Nowadays, it isn’t unusual to go into a property and find old school interior design trends throughout the entire house.  In fact, it’s becoming the norm.  The only problem is the price, which, again, is strangely high considering you want to decorate with second-hand goods. Going vintage is by no means cheap, and the price tag often puts homeowners off.  However, the good news is that a vivaciously vintage house is well within everyone’s budget: you just need to know how to cut costs.

7 Bright Ideas To Help Transform A Dark Home

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Wintertime: a season of dark mornings and even darker nights. By the time you wake up, go to work and come home, it can feel like there has been no sunlight whatsoever. For lots of people, this is an incredibly depressing notion as the sun’s rays are uplifting and they aren’t around until spring. Even worse, the gloom outside can creep into your home. When this happens, it feels like you can’t get away from the darkness. But, fear not because there is a light at the end of the tunnel as your house doesn’t have to stay this way. And, you don’t need to sanction massive renovations to make it happen, either.

For those of you who want to make their house brighter this winter, here are the tips to consider.

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Even More Family-Friendly Kitchen Ideas

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The chances are if you have a family, then you would like to think that your kitchen is a family-friendly space. While your kitchen may be family-friendly in some aspects, the chances are that there are further steps that you could take to make it an even more suitable space for the whole family to enjoy.

Do you ever feel like your kitchen doesn’t get enough use? If the answer is yes, don’t worry because you are not alone - most families report that the living room is the place in the house that is most used. However, if you take the time to make a few small changes to your kitchen, you can make it a more appealing space for the whole family.

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Things You Didn't Know You Could Customise

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In a culture full of changing trends and conflicting fashion advice, standing out from the crowd is no bad thing. Having a unique style gets you noticed; it helps you form an identity and celebrate who you are, no matter who’s judging.

Customising your clothes and interiors means you can be truly yourself without having to change your style when trends go out of fashion. So, if you’ve got the craft bug and you want to put your stamp on your treasured possessions, check out these five things you didn’t know you could customise and unleash your inner artist.

Sports Equipment

Customising your sports equipment is the best way to make it personal to you. You probably already know that you can get custom printed sportswear, engraved hockey sticks, and personalised trailers, but what about customisation that actually improves your sporting performance? An example of this would be adding new fixtures to your bike or scooter or changing some of the parts for a smoother ride and more impressive tricks.

Your Scooter

If you own a scooter (or someone in your family does) and you’re interested in customising it, check out the brand Tilt for high-quality parts that stand out from the crowd. Tilt is one of the biggest scooter brands in the world right now, and they’re well known among professionals for their quality of design, build and finish. Click here for more information on Tilt scooters, forks and clamps to customise your ride.

Baking Essentials

You can create your whole family in cookie form with personalised cookie cutters from Etsy. The cookie cutters are made to order, and they can be modelled on anyone you want – a celebrity, your pet, your spouse. You could bake a batch and give your family a laugh next time you have the in-laws over. Other companies like Firebox give you the option of having your loved ones' faces printed on pillows, tea towels, and even underpants – though some might say that’s customisation gone too far!

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In print format, of course. There is a sea of talented artists and illustrators on Instagram and other social media sites offering this service. The result is a charming framed photo of you and your loved ones, hand-drawn by a professional. If you’re good at drawing, you could even create a print of your own, or learn some basic graphic design skills using Photoshop.

Clothing

There are tons of options for customising your clothes, especially if you’re good at sewing. If you don’t have a sewing machine, however, or you need a little more practice before you start refashioning your wardrobe, you can opt for easier crafts like glue-gunning sequins, beads and fabric swatches on to your outfits. If you’re too afraid to experiment with your own clothes, you could always buy second-hand garments to practice on. No matter how much experience you have, there are lots of inspirational projects on Pinterest that are sure to spark your interest.

The different types of technology that all offices should have

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Whatever your business is, and whether your office is large or small, established or a start-up, there are some technologies that should be included during any office fit out process.

Creating A Home Office You Will Love To Work In

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For many people, the idea of working from home sounds ideal. And in many ways it is; you have full flexibility, no need to wear anything other than yoga pants, and no one is going to steal your milk out of the fridge. However, working from home also comes with the need to focus through all of the distractions in your house - you might never have thought that a pile of washing would look so desirable, but when you have a deadline to meet, it can easily become just that. So, you need to create a space without distractions that are primed to keep you happy and engaged. 

Choose your space 

You need to dedicate an area of your home to become your office. A spare bedroom is ideal, but you might need to look into redesignating things to clear yourself some room elsewhere - like the garage, basement, or even to build an outdoor-office. Your space doesn’t have to be huge, just big enough for the essentials. In fact, having too large space can tempt you to fill it with things that will ultimately become distractions. You want to keep the place tidy and simple, to avoid just that. Don’t use this space to store boxes, to hang-drying laundry or to set up the ironing board. This space is purely for work, and not for household chores. 

Furniture

The right furniture makes a difference. If you like that way the room looks then you are more likely to want to be in there. Choosing the right seat goes beyond aesthetics, however. You need to consider how long you are going to spend sitting at your desk all day - it can seriously affect your back quite quickly. So make sure that you choose something that is going to support your back as well as sit at the right height to your desk. Speaking of your desk - do you really need a huge monstrosity? Sometimes having too much space allows you to create piles of access stuff, which can stress you out by just sitting there. A smaller desk forces you to stay organised and to keep things simple. You might be able to upcycle a table or desk you already have in your home.

Ambience 

This isn’t a romantic date for two, but the mood does have a huge effect on how you work. If the room smells of the dusty Christmas decorations you have yet to put back into storage, how is that going to be a nice place to sit and spend your days? Buy some luxury scented candles and fill that room with your favourite scent. When looking at lighting, a normal ceiling light would work fine, but you might also want to consider a decent desk lamp, or a sun-lamp, to help brighten up the room. 

Storage 

As we’ve said before, you will want to keep this space clear and uncluttered. It has been said that a creative mind prefers a messy workspace. But if you can’t find the right paperwork under the masses of other paperwork - how will you get things done? By all means, do you and continue with your organised chaos, but also consider some creative office storage to keep on top of things.