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Room Makeover: The Gold Ceiling Office



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Kate Watson-Smyth advises not to forget the fifth wall, also known as the ceiling. Her office ceiling in gold adds interest and bounces light around the room - the ideal backdrop for her large statement pendant light. #madaboutthehouse #homeoffice #goldceiling
This is the tale of how a sad and neglected  spare room/junk room got its mojo back by acquiring a  gold ceiling and becoming my new office. Read on to find out what we did and for a quick room tour as well. When we moved in this room was given to the 18yo (that
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My House Tour



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Enid's House for JJ Locations
Something a little different this Monday as the house has been through some changes since you last saw it and I thought I would show you around some of the updates. I will be writing about the individual rooms in more details over the next couple of weeks so save up any questions you have
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Downstairs Loo Makeover



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Starting as I mean to go on with the first renovation project of the year already done. Actually it was started last year and it was a rather accidental refurbishment if I'm honest. When we moved in we painted tiny (and I mean tiny - I've got friends who can't fit in here) everything in
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The Mad House on Houzz



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Today, instead of having a poke around other people's properties, we're going to have a look around mine! I hope that's all right. The Mad House has had a new set of professional photos done and is being featured on Houzz.co.uk where you can read an interview with yours truly and, if you can be
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My Kitchen is Painted Grey



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Well it was finally time to put my money where my mouth is and after several posts about the joys of grey paint and the acquisition of a coordinating grey kitten, it was time to paint the kitchen grey. Despite the rather sudden arrival of the cat, the idea of painting the room grey had
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Dream House #No2: Tine K



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A few weeks ago I showed you pictures of a house in New York otherwise known as Dream House No 1 that had inspired my house renovation and today I bring you another, otherwise known as Dream House No2; The home of Tine K, who owns a shop selling furniture, homewares and clothes to which she
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The Househunter: The House of My Dreams (No 1)



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It seems fitting and, perhaps weirdly coincidental, that today, five years since I last went to New York and on the first full day of BlogTourNYC, that I have found this house to show you. For this is my dream house. This is where I stayed when I was last in New York and now
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The House Is Finished



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the extended kitchen with its tin tile ceiing Finally, the house is finished. And here are the photos to prove it. They were taken by Pernilla of House of Locations, who thinks it might earn a bit of a living posing behind actors and models. We'll see. In the meantime, for those of you who
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The House Is Finished



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Finally, the house is finished. And here are the photos to prove it. They were taken by Pernilla of House of Locations, who thinks it might earn a bit of a living posing behind actors and models. We'll see. In the meantime, for those of you who have asked how the renovations are going, here
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The First Room Is Completed



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We decided to do the shower room first as it meant that while chaos reigned around us we would still have at least one nice room to keep us going and remind us of what we had set out to do. And let's face it; having a good bathroom is very important to one's psyche.
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A Cautionary Tale



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So the architect. We had a tricky time with ours and I have to say the experience has left me wary of using one again. Perhaps because I had such very strong ideas of what I wanted. Probably because we didn't have a very good one. Here's what happened. I hadn't realised that, having paid
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Moving Day



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Moving day dawned bright and early (as the cliche goes). Although actually as it was a December morning in London it was, of course, neither of those things, but it did at least dawn, in a grey and sluggish sort of way. The old house looked like this: The new one looked like this, only
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The Renovation Begins



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Just over one year ago we moved into our new house. A beautiful London townhouse, it had been divided into two flats and left empty for between one and three years depending on which neighbour you spoke to. The top flat, where we intended to living during the renovations, had three bedrooms and had been
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