Great British Home Quiz, My Shelfie

This week I took GREAT BRITISH HOME QUIZ the with Victoria Plumb bathrooms to find out my home style. It is part of a home style initiative and actually the result was quite funny. What would your shelfie say about you? Click on the link above to have a go,and win £250 in the process! 

My Results are:

You are Mrs Elegant
YOUR STyle IS MOST LIKE LADY MARY OR LORD GILLINGHAM FROM DOWNTON ABBEY.

100 Happy Days, Day 33, Simon Clarke, Cow with Shades

I love Simon Clarke art, we have a couple of printed canvases on our walls. I chose Simon Clarke as I love the cows and sheep, I feel they bring the outside in. Anyone that has read any of my 100 Happy Days knows how much I love sheep. 

This is the first picture I bought. It is called cow with shades. The funny thing is he also paints a dog that looks just like Toby so will have to get one of those too. I just love looking at this picture it is trendy yet soo cute.

What I would really like is an original !

Our Picture Wall

Last year we created a picture wall in my kitchen, We wanted it to mean something so decided to use photos we had taken when out & about and on holidays.

100 Happy Days,20, Warm and Cozy

For day 20, I have put a picture of our wood burner, we have had a great, but hectic couple of weeks. And now I  am sat chilled with a glass of wine in front of the wood burner. Aah bliss. 

Sheila's Summer House

My Mother and Father in law have recently created themselves a garden room/summer house. It is so beautiful that I just had to put some images on.

They had a summerhouse built and were left with a blank wooden canvas, which they decided to plaster board and white wash. They wanted to go for a beach hut style so stuck to neutral colours with pastel blue and green for accents. 

The whole family got involved buying them gifts to furnish it, my brother in law took some beach scene photos and had them put onto canvas and Sheila and Peter bought furniture that was comfortable to enable them to spend lots of time in there. They are keen gardeners so will get many hours of pleasure sat surveying all their hard work in the summer house and over their beautiful garden with the wonderful views as a backdrop.

My Light and Bright Entrance Hall

We have been living in our Home for 3 1/2 years now, when we moved in we thought I was all done up and ready to live in, the day we moved in nearly every kitchen cupboard door fell off in our hands, we then realised this was not the case. As a result we have spent the last 3 1/2 years changing layouts, decorating and gardening. And still we are only half way through. 

Our hallway was awful it had a long corridor wrapped around an office, with no windows (The downstairs of our house is wrapped around the hall). This is all well and good unless you live with boys, who saw the office as a dumbing ground, as an alternative to putting things away.  I spent hours every week emptying the office off things I have previously requested to be put in rooms and toy cupboards. The office, dumping ground had to go. 

It took 1 1/2 years! Aghh ! We started with great intentions and knocked the office walls down, change our steep ladder stairs to turning stairs making them much safer. But then came the biggest hurdle, getting a plasterer, if I had a pound for every plasterer who did not turn up, I would be sat on a Caribbean cruise as I write. It was a nightmare so many agreed to come and look at the job but just never arrived. Eventually we got one, I was so excited when the plasterer finally arrived I think I scared him with my enthusiasm. I could not believe I had a plasterer in my house. 

Guest Coat Hooks

Up until a year and a half ago coming into our hallway was like entering a wardrobe into Narnia. You had to fight through a two feet of coats to pass through the hallway, to finally fall into our home. Our hallway is by no means tiny, but the mound of coats made it feel dark and small.

                     

One day when spring cleaning I emptied the coat hook, and not only founds coats for every possible weather scenario for all the Men of the house. But sweaters and hoodies, in every size and colour, it seems they were using the hallway as a downstairs wardrobe.

Looking back maybe I overreacted a tad, I snapped I was sick of my depressing wardrobe/ hallway. I wanted a chic hallway with clean lines and no sportswear.

As of that day it became a criminal offence to for a member of the household to so much as touch the guest coat hooks. I emptied the under stairs cupboard and made a home for their coats there. I made them throw out coats they no longer wore.

Heart, Map Pictures

I saw these pictures in a home design store and loved them but I wanted to personalise them to display places we had visited as a family.  They looked quite easy to make, so I decided I would try to make them myself.

I had planned to make the heart mounts but found them in Wilkinson’s along with the white wooden frames, which were exactly what I was looking for. 

I printed maps off the Internet; I chose the Caribbean and Italy with Sardinia and Sicily as these places hold happy family memories. 

I am pleased with the result and the fact that every time I look at them I think of family holidays.