Form over function is an eternal struggle. It’s very rarely you find a beautiful item that is equally practical, so, you have to decide which you want to live with. This can be a beautiful silk tablecloth that would stain before you can say red wine, or an offcut of garish PVC that will wipe [...]

Remember back when I told you about the huge number of roses we’ve got growing out at the house? Well, as much as I bemoaned how boring it would be to simply dry them for pot pourri, I couldn’t come up with any better/quicker ideas, and was sick of seeing them go to waste, so [...]

Having used most of my annual leave on our honeymoon adventure I have to be particularly choosy as to how I use my remaining allocation. I am, of course, keeping a lot of it for working on the house. But, a girl needs a treat every now and then.
So, with that in mind, I will [...]

Given the number of accidentally ruined woollens I have been victim to in my time, I was sure that when I actually wanted to felt some old wool scarves I had picked up at a local thrift/charity store it would be simple. Oh how wrong!  
We are wanting to create a really cosy and homely [...]

Well, if you ask me, there really is no need for Chocolate Week at A Home For All Seasons as we seem to celebrate, or at least consume, the lovely stuff on an almost daily basis.
Because of this shocking lack of self-discipline and regard for our general health we are cutting down – drastically! So, [...]

Long before Kirsty Allsopp found her beautiful deco bath for her Handmade Home, I have been a fan of Art Deco styling. – we even had it as a theme for our recent wedding! 
So, it was hard for me to come to terms with the fact that finding a similar bath was almost impossible, not [...]

One of my favourite Christmas memories is my first Christmas I was dating my now husband. We had been invited to his parents to help decorate their tree. They are BIG fans of the festive season and I honestly didn’t think that poor tree could possibly withstand the weight of another decoration.
There were so many! [...]

I have never been one for celebrity endorsements (though I must confessed in my sleep-adled state I almost bought some celebrity endorsed moisturiser on the shopping channel at the weekend – but let’s forget that confession). But, pricy cosmetics aside, I have found one endorsement that is actually quite good.
A few months ago I signed [...]

As you know, we have quite a grand entrance hall in the new house and one of our current decisions is lighting. It’s actually an incredibly dark space when the front door is closed, so ideally we want something as bright as possible.
It’s also one of the areas of the house we are wanting to [...]

So, with such silence on the site you’d be forgiven for thinking things have been ‘full steam ahead’ out at the house. Unfortunately not. You know things have hit a low when even your builder says he feels things are moving backwards and that he finds the days he’s out at the house depressing (at [...]