How to dress a dining table for Halloween
Whether you’ve got children or not, adding a bit of Halloween decor is fun way to give your home a seasonal spin. From embracing a full-on black and orange theme…
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14 romantic dates you can create at home
An at-home Valentine’s Day may not have been the romantic whirlwind you’d envisioned or maybe you feel it’s all a bit corny and don’t normally bother. As we’ve spent more…
How do you decorate a Christmas table?
Over the Christmas period, it’s likely you’ll be spending a lot more time around the dining table than usual. Whether it’s a games night, drinks with your festive guests, or…
Your Dining Room Measurement Guide
The perfect space to entertain guests, a study area, and the home of your family meals, we understand that the dining room is the heart of the home. Designing this…
How to create a festive dining table with Dove Cottage
I don’t know about you, but one of my favourite things about the festive season is planning my decorations and how I’m going to style my home. While my husband…
19 Ways To Style Your Dining Table
The dining room table is one of the main places your family and friends gather in your home, so it needs to be made to last. Whatever your dining room…
As Styled By You: Your Dining Rooms
With the dinner party season just around the corner, are you feeling the pressure of entertaining in a room which has been forgotten and unloved for the past ten months?…
How to Create a Cosy Country Kitchen
There’s a timeless appeal to a country kitchen that really never goes out of style. While sleek, contemporary kitchens may look great for a short while, it’s the more traditional kitchens which remind us of our childhood homes, or that of our grandparents and fill us with nostalgia. It’s funny how the smell of a roast dinner or the tantalising scent of baking cookies can bring us right back to simpler times – when it didn’t matter if things were a little chaotic or busy or there was flour on the floor or crayons scattered across the table. And so the appeal of a country kitchen remains and will probably always be a classic choice for many home owners wanting to bring a bit of warmth into their homes.
But how do you bring a bit of ‘country’ into a kitchen and give it that comfortable warmth that makes them so appealing? Well, here are a few tips to give you some ideas if this is a look you’d like to try in your own home.
Accessorising with Easter Decorations
Easter is nearly here and with that comes another opportunity to decorate our homes for the season, yay! I don’t know about you, but I’m forever changing small details in my home, rearranging accessories and adding new plants – the latter not least because I’m not very lucky with them and they tend to die on me somewhat prematurely. Poorly plants aside, I love festive occasions and the preparations that come with them. Christmas is a given, but also autumnal get-togethers, summer parties and of course Easter.
How to Choose the Perfect Dining Table
For so many people these days, the dining room is simply a walk way between a kitchen and living area but what if we could reimagine the room as somewhere we actually enjoy spending time in? One that works for our needs, our family’s needs and those of our visitors?