Showing posts with label sneak peeks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sneak peeks. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Good Homes - Cosy in the country.



Hello everyone,  I hope you're all good?  My home was featured in this months Good Homes Magazine (November 2013).  It's quite strange to see the pictures in print, especially while I'm now typing at my turquoise desk right now!  It's about the converted barn mostly and how we've decorated it, including bits about the items I make for our home and the planet-kind homeware I design and hand-print for Beetroot Press; my small business.  I've scanned in the pages below for you to see and I'm currently cosy-ing up our home more because of the drop in temperature.  Extra blankets are coming out, candles lit and hot water bottles in bed!  Hope you enjoy reading, or you can still grab a copy in the shops now until the 25th Oct.









As we are planning to have a quiet Christmas at ours this year, I'm hoping to make some simple christmas decorations for the barn, so I'll share these with you at a later date.

Monday, 26 November 2012

Cosy up your home

Hello everyone,  hope you all had a great weekend.  As it's been getting colder, I have been slowly sewing various things for the house to cosy it up, so after the fair on Saturday I spent Sunday making draft excluders, adding more rugs and choosing fabrics for curtains to add to drafty doors and windows.    I have been searching for ideas on what to do and thought I'd share my cosy home  inspiration with you all...

Layering on blankets, sheepskin, cushions, throws, rugs and adding lower lighting to create a feeling of warmth.



make a cushion from old blankets
Layer up cushions and quilts






 Knitted: Warm and cosy, what better way to add cosiness to your home (if you can knit!)


loving the colours of these knitted poufs.

Arranging: Around a fire, creating little cosy nooks, and adding candlelight can all help to make you home feel warmer.

Anthropologie candle 


Warm wood tones.

textile wall hanging, crochet blankets and little rugs.
 And of course a hot cup of tea helps!


 Most of the images were taken from Design Sponge: Sneak peeks, and some from random web searches for a cosy home.  Tea pot is from Etsy.