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10 things to add to your spare room to make it guest ready this christmas

 
 
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[AD] Are you staying at home, hosting friends and family or visiting relatives this Christmas? We’re just planning a few quiet days at home. We don’t have a guest bedroom at the moment so we haven’t been able to invite anyone to stay this year, but if you are hosting guests I’ve teamed up with @bloomandwild to share some tips on preparing your spare room for them. My latest post over on the blog includes 10 things you can add to your guest room to make your visitors feel really special. Some of them are things you probably already have lying around the house, others will cost very little or even nothing but they are all thoughtful little touches that definitely won’t go unappreciated. . The beautiful flowers on my dressing table are from @bloomandwild ‘s Christmas collection (currently available with 10% off and free delivery). I’ve been really impressed with how long they have lasted. I took this picture a few days ago but I’ve now had them for 10 days and they still look really good.
We’ve made great big leaps of progress in the living room this week. The flooring is down and our fitter did an amazing job. Tradesmen sometimes get a bad rap but honestly most of the people who’ve helped us have been amazing - they’ve worked so hard! There’s still loads to do in here (head over to stories for the full room tour) and not a decoration in sight yet, but I’m starting to believe we’ll actually pull most of it together in time for Christmas. [Tap for all the product tags]
The parquet flooring is going down this week so I spent the weekend painting the newly plastered walls in the living room. Still no patio doors. The 3rd installation date provided by the supplier came and went (they’d already let us down on two previous occasions) and they didn’t arrive, so we’ve had to back to square one and reorder them from another supplier who will hopefully turn out to be more reliable. (Let’s not even talk about how angry I was about this.) Anyway it’s a new week and hopefully in a couple of days I’ll have a beautiful new floor to show you. #designhunterrenovations
So dark and moody here this afternoon. Candles are the only way to go.
How was your weekend? Have you put your Christmas decorations up yet? We’ll be late with ours this year as we still have so much left to do on the living room before we can think about getting ready for Christmas. At least we have this calming space to retreat to.
Happy Friday! It’s been a trying week renovation wise so I’m happy to be heading out to hit some tennis balls this afternoon. Then we’re off to Derbyshire to visit family this weekend while the plastering continues on the house. What have you got planned?
So here’s where we’re at with the living room right now. It’s still a long way off being insta perfect. The chimney breast needs replastering, the floor fitter can’t come for another couple of weeks and the company who were supposed to be fitting the crittall style patio doors today have let us down... again 😫, but little by little it’s starting to feel more like home, and with a gale howling outside this morning I’m contemplating just lighting the woodburner and settling down here for the day with my laptop. This isn’t a sponsored post by the way, but I will be collaborating with @aradastoves and sharing more about our lovely new stove over on the blog just as soon as the living room no longer looks quite so much like a building site. #designhunterrenovations
Do you ever feel that a room isn’t quite ‘finished’ and yet you can’t quite put your finger on what’s missing? I really liked our bedroom before, but if I’m being honest it was maybe lacking a focal point. Well not any more! This beautiful quilt by @louisegray_studio somehow just seems to pull everything else in the room together. Their quilts are all handmade in Minneapolis and the muted colour palettes and simple geometric designs are right up my street. #contemporaryquilt #handmade [gifted]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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