There are a lot of things that you should be looking into when it comes to improving your homestead and making positive decisions for the future right now. Being able to work on your property and improve it is integral to developing a happier, healthier, and more enjoyable place to live, and this is … [Read more…]
The entrance to your home is where visitors come in. Snap judgements can be made on the state of someone’s front door or door mat. You want to make a good impression. For farms though, the entrance to your home is probably the most high-traffic area in the whole farm. It is where wellies are … [Read more…]
Forget generic looking, shop-bought plant pots, if you have access to a farm yard, there is a plethora of thing and implements you can use to plant thing in. I recently wrote a whole post on repurposing old tyres so obviously they will be on the list but from old toilets to sinks, anything is … [Read more…]
I love everything about Christmas but one of my favourite things is the smell. Fir trees, pine cones, gingerbread, cinnamon. I cannot get enough of the scent of Christmas. I do have a Christmas scented candle on the go at all times of the year. Sometimes, if I have had a bad day, the smell … [Read more…]
We have wanted a wood burning stove at the farm since we moved in. There is something so cosy and homely about an open (ish) fire lit on a bitterly cold day and everyone vying for closest spot.* There is also a lot to be said for a fire place in that it certainly becomes … [Read more…]
Christmas – it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Decorating the house for the festive season is one of my favourite activities in the lead up to Christmas… Think fairy lights, colourfully-decorated trees, nativity displays and sparkle, lots of sparkle. In this post, I’m going to share a few of the tips I’ve picked … [Read more…]
The room which we currently use as a living room is a strange one. Once used to hang meat in many years ago, it has been referred to as a corridor by some people. It is long and thin. It originally had two small windows in it but, when we renovated the house one of … [Read more…]
Our house is old. Some of our interior walls used to be exterior-particularly in the kitchen. The old, stone walls never really got the memo about being upgraded to inside walls and we have a bit of a damp problem on one wall in the kitchen. In hindsight, we should have had a radiator installed … [Read more…]
I’ve always loved cream as a colour for interiors. When I moved into my own little house some years ago, the living room was just a sea of cream with some nice little accent colours to break up the neutral. I had a cream fabric sofa, a beautiful fire place, cream tables (many of which … [Read more…]
