Gardening The Ultimate Intex Pool: Intex 10ft Frame Pool Review Posted on June 20, 2026June 21, 2026 By Becky One of the big hits in our family of the summer just gone (and I’m sure will be for many summers to come) was our Intex 10ft Frame pool by Intex Recreation Corp. that we finally set up at the end of spring. You see, we’d actually bought this Intex 10ft pool… Read more
Our Home Our DIY Kitchens Helmsley Kitchen Renovation Posted on June 1, 2026August 19, 2026 By Becky DIY Kitchens Helmsley Review – At a Glance Kitchen Range: DIY Kitchens Helmsley In-Frame Colours Used: Dove Grey (main units) and Carbon (island) Worktop: White Quartz (White Storm) – sourced separately Installation: Fitted by our builder in under a week Overall Verdict: Brilliant quality, great value compared to Howdens, and… Read more
Home and Interiors Our Sulking Room Pink (Farrow & Ball) Home Office Posted on September 22, 2025 By Becky I’ve been absolutely bursting to share this home office transformation with you all because honestly, I’m still slightly obsessed with how it turned out. When I first mentioned to other people that I was painting our home office in Farrow & Ball’s Sulking Room Pink (No 295), I had some… Read more
Home and Interiors Simba Hybrid Mattress Review {2025} Posted on June 11, 2025August 7, 2025 By Becky One of the things I think I could safely say is pretty embarrassing with regards to our home, was the fact that our old bed mattress was over 20 years (Adam had it before I even came on the scene!). Despite getting increasingly more aches and pains in the morning,… Read more
DIY How to make DIY Scaffold Board Shelves Posted on June 6, 2025September 22, 2025 By Becky If you’re looking for scaffold shelving ideas then this project might be right up your street! I thought i’d share a home project from our old house, and I was delighted to complete these DIY scaffold board shelves for our living room! We moved into our old home a few… Read more
Gardening Creating a Child-Friendly Tiered Garden – an Update Posted on May 20, 2025June 11, 2026 By Becky Disclaimer: I can’t promise that these photos are particularly pretty (you will, in fact, see a lot of mud), but sometimes you need to document a process before you get to the pretty stuff, and hopefully you’ll get some tiered garden ideas from this post! Those who read this blog… Read more
Our Home Great Little Trading Company || Wooden Play Shop and Theatre Posted on May 6, 2025December 3, 2025 By Becky Updated for 2025: This post has been refreshed to reflect the latest updates for 2025. Since our original review, Great Little Trading Company has expanded its range, and there are now even more fantastic wooden play shops and imaginative play toys available on their website. Whether you’re looking for a… Read more
DIY How to paint your floorboards white – our bedroom Posted on May 5, 2025August 22, 2025 By Becky Today on the blog is all about how to paint your floorboards white, which is exactly what we did when making over our master bedroom a while back! Whilst our bedroom has been decorated for quite a while now, I’ve felt for a while now that it was let down… Read more
Our Home Our Grey Bathroom Renovation Posted on January 18, 2024June 11, 2025 By Becky This is another post that I’ve been meaning to write for a while now- showing you the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of our grey bathroom renovation in our current house, complete with grey bathroom tiles, grey bathroom vanity unit, and a few pops of colour! Hopefully you can add it to… Read more