Ned’s stores are fabulous Emporiums of home products, but right now they have a great collection of Christmas decorations and other bling items to satisfy your decorating needs! There many new items this year in beautiful arrangements. They range from sparkling garlands and wreaths, musical boxes and lights to small winter wonderland creatures such as winter-dressed dollies,…
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Never too early to start planning for Christmas!
If you are like me and love decorating whether it’s for Spring, Autumn, birthdays or for any theme, then here are some Christmas ideas to get you planning – I will keep adding posts on Christmas decorating as we head into December. try a new theme and colour : Scandi and white & silver start collecting some decorations decorating your…
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Tips for presenting your house for sale
Spring in Australia is a great time for selling a house but there is also a lot of competition. So should you put your house on the market now or wait until end of December when the season eases? If you put your house on market now, you will find many people are out and…
DIY
Paint before selling (or not)?
You may be deciding to sell and wondering how painting could improve your home before you put it on the market. Well, this is an interesting question because you may be in a hurry to sell or have limited resources. If you can tidy up your place as much as possible, declutter and style it…
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FRESH IDEAS FOR YOUR SPRING BEDROOM – PART 2
PART 2 – furnish and decorate with bedside tables, rugs and lights So to recap – you need to think about your bedroom colours for spring. I find it easiest to choose a quilt cover first, then match the linen and build the room features around this. Of course you need to keep in mind…
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Fresh Ideas for your Spring Bedroom – Part 1
The Spring Bedroom : ideas and inspiration Are you painting, changing curtains and carpets or just doing a quick refresh of your bedroom for Summer? You can check bedroom colour trends, curtains and carpets in a future blog but if you are not wanting to do a major renovate of your bedroom, consider looking at how you…
Trends
Whole Self – Dulux colour Trends 2019
Dulux has just released a new blog on it’s interior colour trends for 2019. This one is entitled ‘Wholeself – Stop, breathe and simply be in the moment.’ I like that concept for spring and summer coming up. A time to reflect and look at values and what you want to achieve next. The timing…
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Spring Fever
‘I promise I will always make the most of Springtime’ (from Spring Awakening by Lily Baker) What are you doing to celebrate Spring? Here is South Australia, spring was a long time coming but after a cold damp winter (and lots of rain, thanks) we are now looking forward to some sun! I like to…
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Table Decor – simple and eye-catching
An easy way to add style and a bit of smartness to your rooms is to consider a table decorating feature. This can be done on your dinning room table or kitchen table, your coffee table or sideboard. Anywhere you can find space! More everything off the tops of your surfaces and replace with pretty, well-grouped objects…
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Mini makeover for storage room
Do you have a boring spare room? Do you use it for storage and it is so cluttered you can’t use it for anything else? Here is a mini makeover for a very small space. It might inspire you to do something about all that clutter! The boxes and bags stored in this room are not only messy…