Mila's little bedroom revamp...

A few weeks I got inspired by this little creative project for Mila's bedroom  found on Pinterest ...and as the minx wanted more pink ...

Two DIY projects that fire me up!

OK I have DIY on the brain... Mila & I spent the afternoon painting her old desk (you could see the result on Instagram.com) and then we...

Creative project for a rainy Sunday

I love using grey at home. I painted one of Mila's walls in down pipe by Farrow & Ball (pic here  and there ) and I used Pavillion g...

Creative projects for the weekend

I'm really looking forward to this weekend... My migraine is gone, the sun is out, we have nothing planned other than a family picnic in...

Little DIY project: magic decals to personalise jars

While the streets of London are covered with snow, we are shooting the first images of our Spring/Summer catalogue in a corner of my kitchen...

Little creative project: Advent calendar

As Mila is back from her French holidays on Wednesday, I'm busy making some changes to her bedroom to surprise her and as I took down t...

Little sneak-peak of my black kitchen

Inspired by these images of black kitchens , last June I started a DIY marathon and spent two weekends painting our old kitchen in black. Yo...

DIY project: Little foot prints

Not that I would like to do this right now on my pristine white stairs but I really like the idea for a kid bedroom and it's an easy li...

DIY project: Coffee table

You know that I'm partial to one or two DIY projects, especially when they look stylish and can be done in one afternoon so this morni...

I love this...

While doing some research for our next lifestyle shot for our mail order catalogue, I came across this gorgeous display of plates. The Rob R...

Black kitchen in the making...

I think it's going to look good! Once dry, the paint has a really nice matt finish that looks very very stylish. We are on a winner peop...

My next DIY challenge is....

Pimping up our kitchen units by Sunday evening! You can see how it currently looks there . In fact, nothing has changed since it was photogr...

Sunday inspiration/DIY project

So back home, instead of painting our bathroom as I had planned, I painted the cupboard under our stairs with blackboard paint and I love t...

I love this!

Busy weekend...BBQ friday night, brunch yesterday morning, diner at the pub last night, re-brunch this morning, we spent the whole weekend e...

DIY project: How to style your toilets

I've just finished my contributor post on Poppytalk to explain how I re-styled our toilets in France...I know there is more glamorous s...

White stairs....

Half-term is coming to an end...Two more days left in France until our next get-together in April and some great memories of our few days s...

21 Easy kitchen updates

This is long overdue post but on my way to Paris , I bought Elle Decoration and only managed to go through it recently. One of their article...

DIY project: wooden headboard

For a while, I have been wanted to share with you how I double the height of a basic Malm bedframe by IKEA and and covered it up with grey ...

I like this....

A 'countdown to Christmas' tree...beautiful photo and stylism by Annaleena

White leaves

I saw a lot of beautiful Christmas decorations and wrapping recently. Sadly, the lack of time prevents me from sharing them all but these wh...