Eves & Moon

The new room is coming together really well. Everything I had envisioned for it has turned out exactly right! One thing that I’m most happy with is our brand new shelf/bedside lighting. This was all done for well under £100. I was lucky enough to already have the wooden scaffolding board for my old kitchen shelf. My dad helped me to distress it as it was a brand new piece of wood. Click here to read about that process. In the new room, our bed is pushed up against the chimney breast which obviously juts out a bit compared to the rest of the wall on that side. When considering the space we had I realised that a bedside table either side of the bed just wouldn’t work. This then raised the question…where do we put bedside lamps? I’ve seen a few pictures floating around the internet showing large filament Edison bulbs hanging from either the ceiling or the wall either side of a bed. I loved the look as I’m a big fan of Industrial-looking interiors. This seemed like a l...

With less than a month until the move, I thought I'd share with you my ideas for the decor of our new room. As you know I do love cottage interiors, but for quite some time even before the news of the move, I was getting the itch to do an interior overhaul and incorporate house plants and have a more "bohemian/botanical" vibe.  The new room luckily is large. It's around the same size as our current bedroom with a slight bay window. We also don't need to worry about taking our huge ugly wardrobe with us as the room has built in cupboards (all with full length mirrors which will create some light in the room). The carpet is neutral and only a few years old so that won't need replacing. I was toying with painting the walls completely white, but we settled on a warmer toned paint from Dulux called "Natural Hessian" which is a light beige colour. I'm actually quite excited to have a whole new room to put my stamp on...and I get to wave go...

As turning 30 looms in front of me this year, I feel in a bit of a reflective mood. Almost 30 years on this earth and what can I say I have achieved or experienced in that time? I thought back to when I was young and naive at school and in my teens. If I could go back in time and talk to my younger self, what would I say?  Don't worry about what other people think. I spent the majority of my teenage years and even early twenties trying to "keep up with the Jones's". As I've grown older I just don't care about trying to look a certain way or wear a certain brand of makeup simply just to fit in. If people don't like me as a person, that's OK- I'd probably be better off without them anyway! Don't feel like you have to change who you are for anyone. The only person that will end up suffering is yourself. Friends come and go. When you're at school, you get so caught up in a bubble of only socialising with people in your class or year gr...

Welcome to my new regular post "Our Stylish Rented Homes". In this first post, I interviewed Stephanie from Matson Bailey . Please don't forget that if you would like to be featured in a future post, upload photos of your rented home to Instagram and use the hashtag #ourstylishrentedhomes ........ Hi, I’m Stephanie (Steph) and I have lived in my rented (shared) home in Camberwell, South London for almost 5 years now. I love the area as I'm so close to the centre of London but have the advantage of being on the edge of town near to the countryside so it’s really the best of both worlds. Obviously the pit falls of living in a shared home is that a lot of things can become broken or ruined because your housemates don’t often understand the importance or sentimentality of your belongings or simply how to keep things nice. However, my room is my little sanctuary to stamp my mark onto and to keep my ridiculous amount of bits and bobs that I have collected over the year...

As I sit here shivering and writing this, I'm so ready for the warmer weather to arrive and to actually enjoy the outdoors again! I think because of this, I've recently developed a love of plants inside the home as you can enjoy being surrounded by nature and lush green plants all year round! At the beginning of the year I spent some of my Christmas money on a lovely large ceramic pot from H&M Home and an indoor plant to pop in it. The plant seemed to suddenly transform the feel of the room, and I found myself itching to get some more. Obviously as I mentioned in my previous post, we are having to move out in 2 months time and essentially we will be doing a form of house share, so space will be very limited in the new place- well just confined to one room actually! However, this hasn't phased me, and I will try and incorporate some greenery into our new living space! I've taken a lot of inspiration from Pinterest (check out my page here  if you haven't don...

So one minute you're planning your first blog post of 2018 and writing about all the things you had your eye on to get for your home, and the next minute you're being told that your home is being put up for sale.  Yup, that's my fantastic start to this year. We have just a handful of months left to clear out all our belongings and move elsewhere. This unfortunately, is the harsh reality of renting a property. We've lived in our little flat for getting on 8 years and we have had some fantastic (and also not so fantastic) memories there. We moved in as excited 21 year olds- fresh out of our parent's homes and full of ideas and hopes for the future. We will leave as almost 30 year olds and faced with a completely different living situation.  However, not all of this situation is doom and gloom. We're now making plans to start saving for a deposit on a place of our own. We could have easily rented somewhere else but as many young people who rent know, s...

Autumn has rolled around again, and this pleases me greatly. In homage to my favourite season, I’ve listed some of my reasons why I just love this time of year! ©        Those bright sunny mornings but with a chill in the air ©        Chunky knit jumpers and scarves ©        Autumnal colours such as mustard, burnt orange and burgundy ©        Seeing rows of trees all turning different shades of yellow, gold and red ©        Crunching through the mounting piles of fallen leaves on the ground ©        The excitement of seeing pumpkins start to appear in supermarkets ©        Pumpkin picking! ©        Baking fruit pies and crumbles ©        Starting to add cinnamon to drinks or puddings…...