Looking To Make A Fireplace Bookcase? Here’s How We Made A DIY Kids Bookshelf For Children’s Rooms We’ve recently made a DIY fireplace bookcase! Here’s how we turned a fireplace into a bookcase, with help from GLTC Townhouse bookshelves.  Renovating An Old Fireplace – An Easy Bookshelf DIY As anyone who has ever moved into…

How to Make Washi Tape Cloud Shelves I wanted to share some of the interiors and mini children’s room DIY projects I’ve been working on recently (I say projects, as it sounds a lot grander than basically messing around with *stuff*). So to start off, with here are our washi tape rain cloud shelves. I…

Sometime last year we bought a printer, and since then not a day has gone by without me printing off at least one colouring sheet. In fact, that’s the only thing we’ve printed with it (apart from old-school work contracts…followed by more colouring sheets). OK, so that’s a slight exaggeration, but my children love colouring,…

Is it actually spring yet? I know it technically is, but what with the extremes of both the bleakest winter AND the hottest summer in the space of a few weeks, the weather, like everyone else, seems confused. However, in our house we are *definitely* coming to the end of four years of building work,…

I can’t remember how much of this I’ve mentioned on here (vs over on Instagram Stories, where I’ve talked about it a lot, sorry) but last year we had our kitchen extended into the side return and now have a whole new set of kitchen chalkboard walls. It happened accidentally, almost… …I saw a picture of…

Here are our new colourful doors…but first, would you let your children pick paint colours for their bedrooms or the doors in your house? What could *possibly* go wrong?! Our colourful doors (and how we picked them!) Spoiler: We did, and it all turned out fine in the end. Phew. How did we end up…

We are just about to finish half term (sob) but if you’re half terming next week (lucky!) or just looking for good things to do with small children, here are three things we’ve loved recently. These range from a stage production of Tiddler and other Terrific Tales, to a new – to us – London…