It's a Green House

After lockdown, changes in our lifestyles and how we use our homes will home buying and design trends change at all? There are a few interesting articles around and YoungHouseLove also talked about it recently on their podcast.  https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/designers-map-future-of-interiors-post-lockdown/ https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-coronavirus-will-change-homes-36746564 A lot of these are USA based, but lots applies in the UK too. Some of the interesting points I thought were about open plan living becoming less popular and people now wanting more defined spaces. I have never seen the appeal of open plan and would much rather have the space divided into more traditional rooms so this is something that I totally agree with. When we bought our house and knocked down some walls my dad commented that he would have actually taken down the wall between the kitchen and living room and made an L shape open plan kitchen/dining/living room. I just always would prefer to ha...

Welcome back to the new, renamed, revamped blog! We finally bought a house :) After the years of following home design blogs, and having a brief go at writing one for tenants myself, we are actually renovating a 1935 end of terrace 2 bed house. As you can see it is not actually green, but over the last few years I have really gotten into reducing waste and being as eco friendly as possible, so one of my main goals for this house is to make it conducive to this - hence the name change of the blog.  We are in the first month at the moment and we are in the stressful stage of ripping out lots of things, seeing what is underneath, being horrified/pleasantly surprised or somewhere in between, and then deciding what to do. Its all fun and wallpaper stripping round our house this month! Unfortunately not a lot of it was salvageable or there are issues underneath that need sorting so we are having to start again. Before photos coming soon!