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Sometimes you just want a quick and easy little project to feel like you’ve accomplished something with immediate results. This DIY project couldn’t be simpler or quicker.
WHAT YOU NEED:
Tiles (I used the £1 sample tiles you can buy from B&Q for this Aquila White Carrara Porcelain tile)
Felt self adhesive pads (I used these)
Optional extras: A sample pot of paint and some fine grit sandpaper
Continue reading “DIY PROJECT | MARBLE COASTERS”
For someone who is pretty into skincare and all things beauty I’m shamefully neglectful when it comes to really paying attention to what’s actually IN the products I use, often just picking up whatever promises the most, looks the prettiest or has a stellar recommendation to work wonders on hyperpigmentation (my personal skin bugbear).
I don’t have particularly sensitive skin but I do have VERY sensitive eyes so as long as a product seems to be providing some benefits for my skin and doesn’t irritate my eyes then I’m more than happy to smear it all over my face or body. I’ll have a cursory skim of the ingredients list on a product very occasionally, usually only when I’ve been writing up a blog post and wanted to find out what ingredients might be the “wonder ingredient” that’s making me rave about a product.
I recently fell down an internet rabbit hole (please tell me I’m not the only person who goes to Google one thing and ends up twenty Wikipedia pages deep an hour later…) and stumbled across Think Dirty®, a project set up to “understand the truths in the beauty industry”. They provide a free app that gives you the opportunity to scan the barcodes on your beauty products to find out more about the ingredients that are in those items. You can find out more about the project here.
Ingredients are ‘rated’ between 0 and 10; 10 being those ingredients the app considers the most “dirty”. Continue reading “HOW CLEAN IS YOUR BEAUTY ROUTINE?”
Everyone loves a bar cart, right?! Whilst I might not have room for dedicated bar cart, I’m planning on squeezing in a bar cart-esque tray on the DIY fauxdenza I’m putting in the dining room.
Here are five of the bar cart essential tools and accessories I’m adding to my “Must Buy” list…
It’s #OneRoomChallenge time! If you’re visiting for the first time then welcome! Here are the links to catch up on Week One and Week Two.
This week has been almost entirely devoted to painting, with a little bit of coving / crown molding excitement thrown in.
I’d given the fresh plaster a coat of watered down white paint during the first week so another one of those plus two coats of Farrow & Balls’ ‘Blackened’, colour matched to Valspar’s Matt Premium Walls and Ceiling paint at B&Q (because I was too lazy to make the trek to the nearest Farrow & Ball stockist and too impatient to order it online and wait for delivery), has made a massive difference to the room. I probably could have got away with just one coat of Blackened as the coverage was fantastic.
I’d highly recommend the Valspar colour matching if you can’t easily get your hands on the paint colour you want from another brand. I took along the paint chart I had for them to match and the colour was spot on, I couldn’t tell the difference between the original sample pot I had and the colour matched paint. Plus, the quality of the paint was fantastic and really well priced. Two enthusiastic thumbs up right here!
The colour is perfect in the dining room and keeps things feeling light and bright, without being cold. Continue reading “ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | WEEK THREE: PAINT, PAINT AND MORE PAINT”
bobo & mimi 