As you'll know if you've been following my interiors posts (both on here and on Instagram) I'm really trying to take my time with decorating and furnishing the new house. Mostly because there's a lot to decorate and furnish and it's a bit overwhelming, but also...
All of this house-styling stuff, this current obsession with Instagram-perfect interiors, it's driving me to distraction! I'm just so torn. On the one hand, I want to put some effort into doing up my house - I want to make it lovely and I want to do it justice. It's...
We're trying to choose a carpet for the living room and it's turning into the world's biggest faff, partly because I have never known another human being as indecisive as Mr AMR, who can deliberate over some minute detail for well over a month, but also because it...
We now have a bed in our bedroom, which is great news because the novelty factor of sleeping on the floor on a mattress had just about started to wear off. Sleeping on just a mattress has its benefits, namely that you can - quite literally - roll out of bed in the...
Strictly speaking, this isn't really a Weekly Window Shop at all, is it? Because - even though I did spend rather a lot of time faffing around putting things in and out of my online baskets - I ended up buying it all. Which takes it from "window shop" to (one of my...
It's a funny old thing, buying a house. You don't get to spend much time in it before you do the deal - you go twice, three times if you can wangle it, any more and people get irritated - and then you sit on the sofa in your old house for months on end whilst all of...