It doesn’t matter if you’re living in a big or small space, everyone deserves to have a space which they can call their own. Usually if the space is small it tends to get cluttered faster than living in a bigger space. So by making clever use of space, also in an economic and creative […]
Next year we will be celebrating 20 years of living in Ireland, our adopted country. So I thought I’ll make a list of my favourite things of Ireland. Things I’ve really come to love about this country. Because I’m always standing with one foot in another country and will never be fully one or the […]
A sweet potato soup recipe from this recipe book – A soup for Every Day – is been described in this blog post with pictures.
By hanging pictures, objects, photographs or other visual images on your walls, you extend your interior decorating to the walls of your rooms. That is a pretty cool concept. What makes it even more exceptional is that living spaces are unique, because everyone interprets their own space differently. So by putting thought into decorating your […]
Tsitsikamma Hiking Trail in South Africa is a tough hike through the mountains which can be done over six days. The huts and facilities are clean and well looked after. Fantastic hike.
Looking at well-designed objects, I’ve often wondered how and where designers got the original idea. That made me think about a designer I researched during my studies at the Interior Design Academy of Ireland. Marcel Breuer, Hungarian architect and designer, was the first furniture designer to actually use tubular steel to design a chair. And […]
A few years ago, we planted three apple trees in our front garden. For the bees and for the apples. Since then we’ve had an abundance of apples to eat and to cook with. The harvest starts in September, sometimes as early as late August, until end of October. As a young girl growing […]
Have you ever moved from one check-out line to another because it looks shorter and will move faster? Have you ever counted the cars in front of you at the traffic light so you can work out a way to move quicker through traffic? Are you constantly multi-tasking? Yes? Well, then you have something called […]
I just love when I find a recipe for cookies that is always successful, easy, a favourite with (almost) everyone, but above everything else – delicious. In this Rachel Allen recipe book the Double Chocolate Chip cookies is exactly that. An absolute gem. A firm favourite. She might not be writing recipe books anymore but […]
We have been living with this kitchen for almost 19 years. It is a wonderful spacious kitchen and what it lacks in cupboards it makes up for in space. Over the years we’ve changed a few things in the kitchen. This included a new worktop, the handles on the cupboard doors, painting, a new sink, […]