Last month I shared our play room reveal, and it still remains one of our favourite rooms in our home. I meant to share the Ikea Duktig Play kitchen DIY with you after so many lovely comments on Instagram and then a mountain of work landed on The Room Alive HQ, including a trade show and launching a new stationery collection. All super exciting and now firmly launched, I can get back to my blogging duties to share this super easy DIY with you. When I say super easy, it really is! I have chosen a pink tiled splash back design and got it printed in an adhesive format at Nutmeg Wall Art. If you need a different colour or design they would...
When we bought our first home, we had a brand new kitchen, new bathrooms, new carpets, new everything, that was the joy of moving into a new build. I loved our all glossy white kitchen with light worktops and high ceilings! Second time around three years later, we moved into our family home and although it was still relatively a 'newish' build being only nine years old at the time, it definitely showed signs of wear and all the dated choices in bathrooms and the kitchen. I wanted to get the cupboards painted in the kitchen as soon as we moved in. The Mr wasn't keen on the idea and we had other rooms to focus on to be fair so I kept postponing...
This kitchen makeover has been the most anticipated and the longest in the planning at home.
I have no idea how it has been already two and a half years since we moved in?! The first thing we did was to paint white over the lime-green walls we had inherited in the kitchen. Three times over and we banished the lime green for good!
We made the kitchen useable but it wasn’t totally to our taste. With a strong dislike for dark oak kitchen units and dark tiles, flooring, worktop, the ‘dark on dark’ look never did it for me.
I love a good wallpaper! Not just on walls though, pretty much everywhere. I have written before about creative ways that you can use wallpaper around your home (here and here), but this time I want to share my favourite furniture makeovers using, yes you guessed, a good old wallpaper roll! I am a big believer in mixing old and new when it comes to home decor, and up cycling old pieces of furniture to fit in a newly decorated room adds all the special touches you need, especially when they hold a special meaning to you. Plus... if like me, you get tired of your decor or want to innovate and try new things pretty much every six months (yeah, sorry Mr Room Alive!),...
It seems like the perfect time of year for a bright yellow themed post!If you've been here before you may have already seen the first stage of our guest bedroom makeover, when it went from four magnolia walls to two dark blue ones contrasting with a monochrome headboard. It lifted the room up already enough to not make me want to run out every time I was in there.But something was still missing, a bit of warmth to be exact. That's where the second stage of the makeover came in.i had neon pink or bright yellow in mind so i reached out to my insta-fam and their great taste, and the decision was made, yellow it was... (thank you insta-friends!)Let's look...
