Happy New Year to you all! As you might have guessed, I took some time offline over the festive period to work on the renovation project and to also have a few days off too. I’m resuming my regular weekly posting schedule today and I wanted to start things off with a collection of images…
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Today’s Renovation Diaries post marks a turning point in the project as things started to get pretty messy up in here! Until now, it felt like the Chapel was a relatively calm workshop space — a place to work on paint stripping, sanding + woodwork etc. But it was at this stage that the reality…
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Today’s post is all about my favourite houseplants to grow in west facing rooms. This is an orientation that I love — it’s such an adaptable setting for houseplant growing + it can facilitate favourable conditions for a relatively wide range of plants. Whilst Southern exposures are lovely + bright their light intensity can be…
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The afternoons slip quickly into dark evenings this time of year and working by candlelight for a few hours is an unexpected joy I’ve discovered this month. It’s been a busy patch of juggling writing and renovating these last few weeks. This changing light that unfolds now is cooler, but lower, stretching deep into the…
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In today’s post we are focusing on houseplants that can tolerate that bright South-facing room in your space. Southern spaces are highly coveted when house-hunting, with rooms bathed in a balmy golden light for a good amount of the day in the Spring + Summer months. The light in these rooms can be strong, intense…
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Welcome back to another Renovation Diaries post! Today we are talking about layouts, planning ideas + the sourcing process for some key pieces that would be needed early on in the build. At this point, the Chapel felt like a woodwork studio as we started sanding back some of the features we wanted to incorporate…
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In this post we are focusing on houseplants that enjoy life in East-facing locations, an orientation that is quite adaptable but the aspect of the intensity of light requires more careful consideration in these spaces. After my post a few weeks ago about houseplants, lighting + room orientation, I want to now focus on each…
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I wanted to share more of a visual post today to celebrate some blooms on a few of my favourite indoor plants. To be clear, I’m not talking about plants such as Orchids or African violets here, but instead I wanted to show how some of our more typical houseplants look when they are in…
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Today’s post is all about my houseplants picks for north facing rooms, a room orientation that is generally considered a somewhat tricky growing space for plant lovers. After my post a few weeks ago about houseplants, lighting + room orientation, I want to now focus on each of the different light exposures — North, East,…
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Well this is very exciting, I’m currently sitting with a cup of tea, poised to write the first proper instalment of my Renovation Diaries blogposts. First things first, if you’ve stumbled upon this post + would like a bit of background on the project as a whole, let me point you in the direction of…
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