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Scented Candles- The Ideal Bathroom Accessory

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:19:45 +0000

Not needing to replumb means additional cash for the enjoyable stuff, as we found when we did our bath room. We couldn’t believe our bad luck when our shower broke only days in advance of our wedding two summers ago. Astonishingly, the timing wasn’t as bad as it looked. The entire rest room required updating, and we didn’t think there was adequate cash to cover it all, but as a wedding gift family got us money for the honeymoon and we had cash left over to assist us with the expenses. With a small budget, we thought we would keep the design identical to prevent replumbing expenses. Our emphasis was also to get a shower that didn’t dominate the area as much as our previous gold-framed one had. We came across a semi-frameless enclosure and as it’s a smallish toilet we also preferred fairly neutral tiles on the walls. Finally we decided upon one large panel of shaded tiles at the rear of the basin, too, because we were determined the lavatory wasn’t going to be dull.We had the work done prretty rapidly so there was the very mínimum of disturbance. All that was then required was to get a number of accessories top ut our own personal seal of approval on the room. We choose a variety of scented candles , mainly because they were acvailable in a great range of colours to match our new bathroom – and also because they were pretty cheap if we are being honest! There are lots of different brands out there but we settled on candles made by yankee candles and true grace candles. We only found out later that they are two of the leading manufacturers of home fragrances, so it seems we mad a good choice. We also picked up some brightly coloured towels and bathmats which helped complete the look.

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How To Use Reclaimed Items To Give A Period Home A New Look

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:19:23 +0000

Listed here I’ll talk about some quick options for converting an extra room into a glamorous en suite by using neutral colors and period-style furnishing and also – just as importantly – with out costing a lot. When I got my Grade ll-listed home, part of it had been converted into a flat. After I had been issued consent to include the flat into the property, we switched one room into an en-suite to the main bedroom. The building contractors had to take away a 1960´s stairway and lift the ceiling by one meter. I wanted to create the design of a period area, thus I chose a traditional-style basin, WC and roll-top bath tub, plus a modern shower enclosure. To keep inside the budget allowed, I purchased the floor and wall tiles at an end of line sale and picked up the extra accessories at neighborhood junk shops.This may appear a bit unusual at first however it is actually an increasingly popular and chic ideain interior planning. I guess you may refer to it as salvage chic. I first ran across this style in Tuscany when styaing in a lovelylittle hotel that had been concverted from an old tower going back to the Middle ASges. Recognising that brand-new contemporary tiling and accessoroies would look odd the business owners searched out unwanted reclaimed ceramic tiles going back several centuirires. You don’t need to go as far back but old reclaimed tiling looks fantastic in period style properties. Getting back to the task in hand, the contemporary walk-in shower makes use of the corner space. The original sash window needed some restoration. I have made the most of the feature by not covering it with a blind. All that was then required was to pretty the room up with some well chosen accessories including my favourite scented candles from yankee candles and true grace candles.

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Try A Different Look This Christmas

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:47:57 +0000

Xmas is arriving and it is my favorite season. A thing I love doing during this merry season is fixing up my house. I ordinarily start with utilizing the design currently in the area. Should you have a natural décor, it is possible to pick pretty much anything at all. I love the Scandinavian look, which makes use of red, white and wood. It’s easy and enchanting, with red apples, plenty of tasteful scented candles and pared-down comfort. Last year my daughter and I located some delightful mushroom candles-white with red patches in addition to a amount of silver. We employed them on the Xmas table together with artificial snow and crimson berries, and got miniature white cups and saucers for place names. I always utilize blossoms and foliage in large quantities, often fresh or dried, and even man-made ones. As a rule a table centre could be used using an oasis, however, you could have a shot at using lots of tiny vases of flowers snaking along the centre interspersed with scented candles of different levels. I love pink and I think it really gives a party feel and a rosy glow. I love the candles made by yankee candles and true grace candles. You can find them in just about any colour you care to mention, so matching the rest of your scheme is never a problem. Teamed with orange, it becomes even more festive. If you can find tangerines with leaves, you can use them for place cards by painting the name on the leaves; a liquid pen works well for this. Placing fruit such as oranges or apples in great piles or in large glass containers looks wonderful too. Christmas baubles can also be used in the same way, or put fairy lights in a glass bowl set on the hall table for a striking effect. Just make sure you use white wire

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First Imoressions Count – Decorate Your Entrance Door In Style

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:04:57 +0000

How is it possible to spruce up the entrance of our house for Christmas time without it looking very tacky? Lights are an effective way to add a bit of Christmas time magic to the outside of your home, providing you do not go over the top. Create a comfortable welcome by means of fixing white lamps across the entry way, along the bottom of the roof or all around a plant, on either the branches or trunk. Several high street shops have a excellent variety of Christmas illumination, for both outside and inside. Lighting employed outside the house must be rainproof and reduced voltage.Use energy efficient LED lights, whenever possible, or solar-powered lights, that do not cost almost anything to operate.One other good way of decorating your entrance door is by hanging up a gorgeous wreatgh, There’s an abundance of hoice when it come to wreaths – browsw aroiu nd the retail outlets and you are sure to come across something to suit. If you love candles – and who doesn’t – then you might want to have some candles perched lit up on the porch. However you must be awae of both draughts not to mention fire threats, and so if you would like to use candles this way make certain they are carefully contained in a hurricane lantern. Of course,if you want to create a really cosy Christmasy atmosphere inside your home, as opposed to outside, then why not get some beautiful scented candles? The best ones we have found are those made by firms like yankee candles and true grace candles but there are plenty of companies to choose from. You can make your choice depending on the color or design you prefer or else base it solely on your favourite scent. Place them anywhere you like around your home, in the lounge, in the bathroom and, why not? …..in the kitchen. Then simply sit back and relax.

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How To Choose The Ideal Rug

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:47:25 +0000

Pop a rug upon the floor. Now that winter is here if we check out the weather outside, it is time we made our home nice and comfy and there’s absolutely nothing better to create that environment than some tastful rugs. They are really comfy and cosy underfoot and high in the fashion stakes. If you would like an extra-skinny rug for the hall, find out if your neighborhood carpet shop offers a binding service. Check the rug doesn’t fluff or molt before you buy, especially if you are locating a vivid one down on the surface of a lightly coloured carpet. Be sure you wait for any mud to dry prior to vacuum-cleaning your rug,and soak up as much of any liquid spillages with kitchen roll. There are plenty of high-fashion rugs on show in the majority of excellent traditional stores that can give your hall the wow factor in a flash. Think about your hallway rug as the same as a statement wallpaper-a terrific upgrade but one that’s far simpler to switch when compared to a feature wallpaper. Why don’t you jazz it up? Stamp or stencil your very own design upon a hall rug. Practice to start with on the reverse to get the amount of paint just correct. And don’t stop there. Once you’ve got your room looking the way you want it with your floor coverings, it is time to get a handful of well chosen add-ons together to make things look cosy and comfortable. There are plenty of small things you can use, including photo frames or wall hangings, but our personal favourite is home fragrances. No matter if you end up picking scented candles – for example the beautiful ones by yankee candles and true grace candles – or something a bit more contemporary, such as a room spray or a reed diffuser, you are certain to discover somsthing to suit.

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Glam Up Your Bedroom

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:47:24 +0000

I stay with my partner and my three-year-old little girl in a three-bed Victorian property in Sussex. My bedroom and the guest bedroom ended up being the last to be completed in the house remodelling. We’d run out of momentum somewhat when we got to these romms, so that we left the wood chip! I don’t mind it as it has in reality provided our bedroom as well as the loft visitor room on the top level a chateau-chic look, which works well with my painted furnishings and old-fashioned detailing. We used up one year stripping out pine cladding, woodchip and Artex to show the period charm of our Victorian house. Nonetheless it was the dressing stand which was the motivation for fixing up our bed room. It cost pennies out of a charity shop, but has got the alluring feel I was looking for. I really like white-painted furniture and chose to remodel our old pine bed with the help of two layers of paint . In the guest bedroom, the chateau-chic look came together through painting the old metal bedstead and adding modern old style floral bed linen. Obviously, any bedroon should have a personal look and I was able to achieve that by placing some family unit photos in retro frames on our bedroom tables, some wild flowers in a petite pink vase plus some of my favourite perfumed candles here and there to establish a delighfully cosy atmosphere. There are many different makes of scented candles to select from but the kinds we like are those produced by quality manufacturers like Yankee candles and True Grace candles. They in essence deliver the best of candle making on both sides of the Atlantic. Some individuals are not so keen on fragrant candles and for these folks we recommend using more contemporary home scents such as a room spray or even a fragrance or reed diffuser. These provide a light but steady scent the entire day and can be utilized in situations where you could not without risk use a candle.

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Wax Tarts – More Scent For Your Money

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:40:23 +0000

Home scent products are found in pretty much every chic home today. Be they scented candles, reed diffusers, incense or the myriad of other products available. This short article concentrates on one product that’s low cost and fabulous. Hour upon hour of glorious fragrance for cents. The product in question is the common-or-garden wax tart.

Firstly , you might be asking “what is a wax tart?” A wax tart is a formed piece of strongly scented wax intended to be used in a wax tart burner (called an oil burner). The piece of scented wax is placed in the reservoir of an a wax tart burner (the upper part) and a tea light candle is placed in the area underneath and lit. The wax tart is heated by the tea light and liquifies. The melted wax heats and releases its wonderful scent.

Wax tarts are one of the finest methods to fragrance your home (in my opinion). They are comparatively inexpensive, straightforward to source and offer fantastic value for money.

I always use a single brand, Busy Bee Candles. I found this independent company about 12 months back on twitter, BusyBeeCandles. They are extremely active on there offering information, tweeting about new perfumes and best of all publicising special offers and discount codes. I took them up on one of their offers and bought some candles and wax tarts. With a offer I believed it’s worth a go. They took a while to arrive; the company makes widely known of this as they happily tell their supporters on twitter that their products are hand-crafted and take anywhere up to 10 days to be delivered.

I could smell the contents of the box before I opened it! Never come across that with the other brands I’ve tried. I lit one of the 2 candles I ordered to start with, Baby Powder. Wow, the fragrance filled my entire house! I ordered a medium candle and I have got to say it lasted ages. Much longer than I expected.

I then tried one of the wax tarts I’d ordered. Lime Cooler. It cost me under £1 with their special offer and I only have one word to explain it, amazing! The scent from this small piece of wax was superb. It filled up the whole house with the amazing fragrance from a single burner in my living room, no word of a lie! I used it each night for 4 nights lighting one tea light in the same burner every night. The fragrance was robust even on day four and I simply did not tire of it.

I then swapped to another wax tart by using the freezer trick. This handy tip was tweeted by Busy Bee on twitter and is a cool way to remove solid wax from a burner. Simply put the whole burner with solid wax in the bowl in the freezer for 15 minutes. The wax disk pops right off. Genius!

I have to be truthful and say that impressed is an understatement with respect to Busy Bee Candles. I’ve ordered just about every month and have loved every single wax tart I’ve burned (and I believe I’ve used them all by now). They’re inexpensive, last ages and have made such an improvement to my evenings at home. I suggest you give wax tarts a try and take a look at Busy Bee Candles for their fabulous range. Recommended!

Authored by Tina Oldham, a fan of home scents and internal design. Have a look at Tina’s fave scented candles and wax tarts and make your house happier and more relaxing

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Suggestions To Create A New Look For Your Hallway

admin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:31:19 +0000

Lanterns, massive bowls and scented candles are all hallway must-haves in our book. As essential as how a home looks, is how it smells so it makes sense to have some beautiful scented candles within the reception hall to greet visitors with their lovely aromas. You will discover numerous firms to select from but we specially like the lovely candles created by brands like Yankee candles and True Grace candles, to name but two. And when you are not comfortable with the thought of leaving a lit candle unattended within the hall for a lengthy period of time, you might often go for a reed diffuser which requires no light or power to operate. Merely open the bottle of scented oil, pop inside the reeds and promptly turn them over to begin filling the space with subtle aroma. And you will discover numerous other tips you may wish to take on board. Add a vase of flowers for a touch of greenery. Keep away from placing them too close to a radiator – or go for a fake 1. Have fun with a couple of signs directing to rooms. Vintage “Wash room” and “To the garden” ones will give your space character. As hallways usually have higher ceilings than other rooms, make the most in the space and hang a sparkling chandelier. For a hotel-lobby feel, go for an oversized drum pendant shade (60cm diameter or larger). Opt for 1 with a diffuser circle for the bottom from the shade, so you do not see the flex and bulb once you glance up. Add a table lamp to give your hallway a warm glow, employing the primary light to highlight the stairs as and when necessary. Choose a slim style or go for a tall cylindrical ceramic 1. There are actually an nearly infinite selection of shades to select from, so let your imagination run wild.

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Tips On How To Transform A Rundown Property

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:33:27 +0000

Just after I’d gone to look at this house for the first time, an old friend stopped me on the street outside and inquired, “You’re not really considering selling your lovely property for this house, are you? I really could understand what she meant as the cottage was somewhat unsightly.I had a visi³n of how it would seem, wonderfully decorated with scented candles by brands for instance yankee candles and true grace candles, as well as a variety of other sorts of accessories. It had started out as six, one-up, one-down workers” bungalows which had been converted into a solitary property and general store. The plaster and render were hanging off of the outside wall and only a tiny portion of the interior was in use. The remaining place had been basically unaltered for many years. I wanted to have a contemporary appearance and felt confident I could attend to it on my own since I’d decorated various flats and houses of my own, and I’d also handled interior decorating jobs for other people. Early on, I made the choice to develop two adjoining houses, one for the boys and the other for me to live in. We can spend time together when we want, but have our own separate space too. I may sell their house when the boys have homes of their own but for now it’s an arrangement that works well for us. I started to redesign the floorplan of the existing layout and set about reshaping it. I wanted to make it open-plan with an airy feel. Everything was stripped out and the structure taken back to the timber frame. The ceilings were removed and insulation added between the exposed beams with plasterboard cut to fit between them. Every floor came up and screeds were laid, wiring and plumbing were replaced, and all the beams were blasted clean before being finished with an oil-based varnish. And the windows had to be remade, apart from the leaded ones. By August I’d bought the property and we moved into the front of the house.

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Decorate Your Home In Traditional Scottish Style

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:49:01 +0000

In the winter season we want our homes to be warm which is exactly what modelling your home decoration on a Highlanmd style will achieve. Have a look at tips on how to incorporate additional comfort, whether it’s adding a thick pile carpet to a wooden floor, putting a draught excluder at the doorway or decorating your windows with blinds along with blinds. The colors that will showcase this Highland-inspired style are peacock greens, brick reds and aubergines – the look is all about designing a rich environment, by using a combination of checks, plaids and tartans. To get a more sophisticated slant on this classic style, or even to help make this look fresher for warmer months, work with colourways that include duck egg, soft heathers and taupe, these can be just as effective when combined with top quality materials. Texture is essential to this look – chunky knits, distressed leathers and comfortable wools all play a role. Think all things tartan, checked and loaded with texture and color. Soft cushions and throws also add texture in addition to comfort and ambiance Gentlemen’s tailoring also is a huge influence – be inspired by tailoring and kilts, introducing felts and tweeds. To aid your inspiration along the way for this trend think about things you might find in the wild whilst up in the Highlands, for instance outstanding stags, flocks of woolly sheep and herds of Highland cattle, endless vistas of striking heather and lavish green ferns. Accessorising this look is simple – hang a couple of paintings having country topics, perhaps light a few scented candles – the ones by True Grace candles or Yankee candles are great – or simply drape an attractive tartan blanket over your sofá. In the event you wished a candle created in Scotland to really tie in with this theme you copuld try to find some Shearer candles – they’re certain to meet your requirements

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