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Sleep Shapes Every Part of Our Life Sleep sits quietly underneath almost everything we do. It influences our mood, energy and how we manage everyday life. Yet for years, I treated it as optional. I stayed up late, pushed through tired days and told myself I would catch up later. Over time, I learned that the benefits of good sleep go far beyond simply feeling rested. They shape how we live each day. When I finally started prioritising quality rest, life began to feel calmer and clearer. Things did not magically fall into place. However, I noticed small but important ...

AD | Welcome to my kitchen reveal with Rangemaster. I have waited a long time to share this one because this room means more to me than any other part of the house. The kitchen sits right in the heart of the home and everyone passes through it at some point during the day. For years the room felt tired and a little dull. Because I wanted warmth, charm and a sense of joy, I picked up a brush, rolled up my sleeves and gave the whole room a fresh start ...

AD. If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know I’ve got a soft spot for kitchens that feel soulful—quietly luxurious, beautifully practical, and just a little bit romantic. So when the stars finally aligned for my own Devol-inspired kitchen makeover (yes, it's happening!), I knew exactly where to look for inspiration: classic Devol style, but with a modern twist. In this post I’m sharing the moodboard behind the makeover, the aesthetic I’m aiming for, and introducing a rather fabulous new addition that’s going to sit right at the heart of it all: our Rangemaster oven ...

This is a sponsored post. Impact-Site-Verification: 1204231794 Anyone who lives in a neuro diverse home knows without a shadow of a doubt that doors get some tough love! And mine are no exception. With cracked panels, chipped paint, broken handles and wonky hinges there isn't a door in my home that doesn't require some sort of attention. And so over the next few months I'm going to be giving them all a refurb. I'm stripping them of over a hundred years of paint. Taking them back to bare wood, repairing them and making them beautiful once more. And there's no ...

Tis the season to be jolly. A time for family, loved ones and friends. A time to gather together, relive old memories and make new ones. It's a time to eat, drink and be merry gathering around the dinner table. For me Christmas is all about the food, good company and of course the odd cocktail or three! And so our celebrations have the festive table as its heart. Starting with the 12th of December which is my husbands birthday (and a big one it is this year too) right up until the big day with the main attraction that ...

This post contains affiliate links. Who doesn't love a well laid table? After all the experience of eating not only involves the senses of taste and smell but also of sight and touch too. We drink in a table and the food adorning it with our eyes before any other sense becomes involved. And then grasp the porcelain, glass or cutlery with anticipation building towards the flavour sensation. And oh it's just so wrong on so many levels when the cup isn't porcelain, or the glass isn't crystal. Is it just me that finds food can be so let down ...

OK, I'll admit it. My name is Rachel and I'm a fabric addict. I loveeeeee fabric. Doesn't matter what kind, silk, linen, velvet........ But it does have to feel and look wonderful. In fact I am soooooo particular about fabrics that there are hardly any soft furnishings in my home. I am that picky! It has to pass the staring at it for hours test. The move it around the room in at least 37 million different places test. And it has to pass the caressing the cheek test. I know. I'm weird like that! My point being that whilst ...

This post is sponsored by Juliettes Interiors. As we hurtle head first into Autumn it got me thinking. Just what am I going to do to keep myself busy over the colder months. I certainly don't have enough DIY tasks to keep me busy for the next 6 months that's for sure or the budget if I'm honest. And then an email from Juliettes Interiors dropped into my inbox presenting me with a design challenge to create a dining room mood board. Well obviously I'm up for that. In fact I might make it a regular feature as the winter ...

Contains Gifted Item. Now anybody that knows me will almost certainly know that I am a self confessed serial plant killer. I try so hard to keep them alive. I have no idea how I manage it but ultimately on the whole they die. Usually within a couple of weeks. You may also know/not know my love of all things Italian. The country, the language, the effortless style of the population and OMG, the food. From pizza to pasta, risotto and everything in between. I would quite happily only eat Italian food for the rest of my life. So you ...

Post contains gifted item from Samsung At 15 years old my old American style fridge freezer was on it's last legs. The fresh water dispenser and ice making machine had long since packed up, the lights no longer worked, all the door shelves had broken and the fridge seemed to freeze everything whilst the freezer didn't quite manage to freeze anything. Add in to the mix that every so often I would wake up to a flooded kitchen  (how does that even happen with the water supply is turned off) and well, it had come to the end of it's ...