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This room is our home office, craft room and spare bedroom but seeing as I work from home the main day to day purpose has become a working home office. Working from home and running blogs requires well organised and easy to use storage but I like to keep it pretty, if a little ramshackled,…

With my head firmly turned toward finding a house to buy and eventually decorating said house, I've found myself absorbed by the idea of wallpaper and other forms of decoration. I've never really had cause to buy wallpaper for actual walls before, however I have picked up a few rolls over the years to line…

Our renovations are still ongoing and will be for sometime. The builders hope to finish within the next week to ten days but once they are gone we still have a lot of projects to undertake ourselves. I’m really looking forward to having the house to ourselves though! Here comes the roof! #thriftyreno A photo…

Keeping your house clean and tidy may seem boring and a tad dull but living in a pig sty can really drag you down. Establishing a quick and easy cleaning schedule is the only way to do it. And honestly? Most people (apart from those over-cleaning types) don’t clean their house frequently enough,  meaning they…

Our sitting room was a disaster when we moved in (as was most of the house) but we have finally decorated and can forget the horrors of unsupported walls and living on a building site.Once plastered, our sitting room sat unpainted for a good few months. As it is the first room you enter in…

Our renovation is at that stage where I’m a little less scared but also, y’know still pretty damn scared. We moved out for two weeks and a huge chunk of work happened in that time. The whole house was stripped back to brick and the majority of it re-plastered. Our entire house has been rewired…

What's your worst household chore? We all have different chores and cleaning tasks that we hate.Mine is a toss up between taking out the food waste bin (bleugh) or ironing. One is just utterly disgusting and has actually been known to make me throw up, the other is so dull I'd happily listen to a…

I don't want to spend my days cleaning or tidying, I employ crafty tactics so cleaning takes mere seconds and I have my time free to spend on things I DO want to do (oh hello Mighty Boosh box set). Here are a few tips which are of course thrifty and will hopefully make your…

You know that dumping ground you have near your front door? Shoes kicked off, keys dumped and coins spilling around, none or little organisation at all? Yeah we had one of those too. I was sick to the back teeth of tripping over shoes in our dark hallway, it had to end. So we bought…

You guys often ask me to share more of Thrifty Towers. So here you are, here's some more. Cor, I'm good to you, aren't I? This ramshackled stack of vintage suitcases and picnic baskets is situated in our hallway, opposite the two doors which take you to either our living area or bathroom and next…