Creating A Gallery Wall In 3 Easy Steps!

Hey beaut's!

I've wanted to create a gallery wall in my house for a long time now, they've really become popular and the more I ooohh and arrrhhh over shots of other peoples beautiful gallery walls the more it made me want one of my own, and with the help of Desenio I finally have my very own gallery wall...and wow, I'm in love! For me gallery walls not only add a bit of style and character but it works wonders and add life to a blank wall, and after I whacked our prints up (well my boyfriend done it but ya know) I couldn't believe I'd left such a big space blank for such a long time! It's actually really addictive too, now I feel like I need a gallery wall or prints in every room of my house! Anyway...today I thought I'd share a couple of tips I picked up along the way whilst creating our gallery wall, I hope they help!

Choose Your Layout - This was the thing I found the hardest about creating a gallery wall, the layout! To begin with I had no idea how many pictures I wanted to go for or how many different sizes of prints I wanted to include but that's where Desenio's amazing templates come in! I designed my gallery wall using Desenio's 'create your gallery wall' tab. You simply select your background - this could be your lounge, kitchen etc - it then brings up loads of different templates to choose from, you then scroll through the website and fill in your template with your chosen prints and keep switching until you get your gallery wall how you like it and voila, it then adds everything to your basket and you can checkout! It's so simply and easy to do and for me it was a god send, it helps massively in putting your prints on the wall too because you will already know the layout.

Find Your Prints/Choose Your Theme - Desenio have thousands of prints to choose from, your literally spoilt or choice on their website, I knew my prints where going on a grey wall so I wanted to go for monochrome prints with black frames so I decided to just flick through all of Desenio's black and white prints! I love a quote so I knew I wanted a couple of those, the 'LA LUNE' picture I loved as soon as I laid eyes on it so I built my gallery wall around that print if I'm honest! You just want to take into consideration the colour of the room/wall you have and what colours you really want to add in via your prints, you want them to compliment your room/wall.

Putting Your Prints Up - If you've used Desenio's 'create your gallery wall' tab like I did then the layout/order of how your prints are going on the wall should already be decided, obviously you can switch it up and if you do decide to change the layout at the last minute the best thing to do is lay all of your prints on the floor in front of your bare wall and just switch the prints around on the floor until your layout is how you want it. I knew my 'LA LUNE' print was going pretty central so we whacked that up first and built the gallery of prints around it, I have serious OCD when it comes to my prints being evenly spaced apart and the best way we found to get every print exactly an inch apart was a pair of calipers, this made the whole process so easy and on point! Also if you have a rented home like we do and don't want to knock nails into the walls I cant recommend the Command strips enough for damage free picture hanging, we found them very easy and effective!

You can find all of the prints and frames I have featured in my post on the Desenio website. 



*Prints and frames where gifted to me by Desenio, all opinions are my own!

4 Ways To Update Your Home!

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I've really been into decorating mine and my boyfriends house recently, freshening things up with a lick of paint and having a new bathroom put in have been the main things we've done but it got me thinking of how changing some simple things in your home can make a huge difference, so I thought I'd share them today! 

Add Some New Decor
A simple way to update your home is with some new decor or adding a new colour scheme with things like pillows and throws, it freshens things up and can give a whole new feel to your home! Even if you don't really want to splash out on anything new then have a little switch around of the decor you already have, maybe use something you had in your lounge and move it into your bedroom or vice-versa!  

A Lick Of Paint
A new paint job can drastically change the vibe of any room in your house, whether it means painting the entire room or just adding a new colour on one wall as a feature wall, it really makes a difference! We recently painted all the way from my downstairs entrance, up my stairs and onto my landing and I honestly cant believe how amazing it looks, I went for grey and it looks so fresh, clean and modern, I love it! 

New Flooring

Now onto flooring, obviously this can be a big job but new flooring can make a big in pact on how you home looks and feels, it really adds that wow factor and flooring just completes any room your decorating really doesn't it! I don't know about you but I love the look of Engineered Wood Flooring. Engineered wood flooring is a fantastic alternative to solid wood, it has the same high quality finish and beautiful look as solid wood, but is lower maintenance and more durable in the face of moisture or heat. Flooring 365 actually provide high quality engineered wood flooring to people in the UK, with so many different options to choose from at competitive prices, personally I'm swooning over their grey oak style, oh I can just imagine it in all it's glory with a fluffy white rug on top, lush! Engineered wood flooring is also a lot easier to keep clean and maintain, meaning its perfect if you have children or pets as you don't have the worry of staining, and any spillages whether its food or drink are so easy to completely clean up!

Adding Some Art
You honestly don't realise how popping some art or even a family photo on the wall can really switch things up in your home, it can turn that boring blank space on your wall into something quite magical! If you wanted to go the whole hog then a fancy feature wall would really make an in pact!

Are you thinking of giving your a home a little update? What are you wanting to change? I'd love to know!



*This post is in collaboration with Flooring 365 , all opioions are my own!

Make My Blinds Review + Bathroom Update!

Hey beaut's!

Me and my boyfriend have been living in our little home for nearly 9 years now and even though we decorated each room of the house when we moved in and have refreshed some of the rooms along the way since,  I feel now is definitely the time to give certain rooms of the house a bit of a re-vamp again. My interior style has changed so much since we moved in, I much prefer a more fresh, clean and minimal look now, but when we moved in I was only 21 and had no idea about interiors! 

The first room of our house that we decided to give some much needed TLC too was our bathroom, in fact we ended up having a whole new bathroom suite fitted and new tiles put up! We went for large rectangular white tiles with a slight bumpy effect and glossy finish to them and oh my god I love them so much, we painted the walls grey too which looks so much nicer than the garish bright blue we had!

Another major thing that has completely changed up our bathroom is a new set of blinds, I no this might sound strange because it's only a blind but our bathroom window is massive so it really makes an impact and it really has finished the bathroom off perfectly! We decided to use Make My Blinds and opted for one of their wooden blinds, Make My Blinds is the perfect place to go if your looking for new blinds because their all made to measure, all you have to do is simply measure up your window and type in the measurements when making your purchase and the blind gets delivered to your door in the correct size, it's so quick and easy, theres even handy video tutorials on the website to help you measure up correctly and 'how to' videos to help you install the blind correctly  - so everything is taken care of! The blind we opted for was the Editions Driftwood White - Wooden Blind, it has a faux grain effect running through each slat which works perfectly against the pale, white colour of the wooden blinds, and the quality is amazing too and perfect for the bathroom because it's waterproof and wipe clean. We will definitely use Make My Blinds again because of the sheer simplicity the whole experience is, we've had nightmares with blinds in the past because the fit and the size of our window, but as you can see from the picture the length and width of the blind we got is PERFECT!

I absolutely LOVE the look of my bathroom now and the blind is just so modern and clean looking, I love it! There are a few finishing touches that need to be made, the new floor still needs to go down and I have a large mirror that needs to go on the wall so maybe I'll do another update when everything is completely finished! 



*This post contains gifted items, all opinions are my own!