I wonder if my house will be as perfect as theirs when my children have grown up? At the moment it is a disaster area most of the time! My parents are often horrified. They recently pointed out how dirty my windows were looking – especially in the conservatory. They were right, I had just not had the chance to do anything about it. I found http://www.reachandwashwarrington.co.uk, who have been brilliant. They have all the right equipment to deal with all the high windows. At least that part of my house is now always sparkling – I just need to find a company that picks all the toys off the floor for me now….

Lighting Styles are a specialist supplier of lighting and their website www.lightingstyles.co.uk gives great advice on how to get the lighting right in your bathroom so that you can have a stylish bathroom, well lit with fewer shadows and effective task lighting for applying make-up and shaving.

Hoteliers spend big money on getting the lighting in their bathrooms right and nearly always employ a lighting designer to provide a bathroom lighting scheme. You can get results just as good or better and save yourself the design fee by following the tips from Lighting Styles. What’s more you can save money too as much of their bathroom lighting range is on offer at discounted prices.

Speaking of brightening up a room, I am ideally looking for a company that deals with lighting in Cromer. I always see big firms that deal with lighting, but because my daughters only 5, she doesn’t want anything snazzy taking over the bedroom. Just something simple yet effective.

One of the parents at school was telling me about a company who sell lighting and told me to visit their website at www.contemporarylightingcromer.co.uk

I love the fact that you can just jump online to browse products prior to visiting the shop itself so I went onto the website www.contemporarylightingcromer.co.uk to find out a bit more.

Because she only wants something basic, maybe a lamp and a new light fitting, I’m not going to spend hours looking but it’s good to see what about for future reference!

I could do with a new fitting for the living room too so their luck may be in today!

I literally bought everything from new bedroom furniture to kitchen utensils to all new carpets. One thing that I did buy new was my lovely chocolate brown leather sofa. I’m so into textures and different trends so I did the whole mix and match theme throughout my house. I mixed my lovely sofa with different throw over materials and let’s not forget my state of the art cushions!

Okay, I’m not writing this blog to brag, quite the opposite in fact as I am looking for a company that deals with furniture repairs in Swansea. I was absolutely devastated the other day to learn that the dog had gone into the living room and torn my beautiful pride and joy. I was so annoyed too as he isn’t normally allowed in that room as we keep it for ‘best’.

A friend at work told me to visit www.leatherrepairsswansea.co.uk because she had heard they dealt with all leather repairs from beds to sofas.

The website www.leatherrepairsswansea.co.uk says that the company are located quite close to my house too so I needn’t worry about the trek to get there!

Let’s hope their miracle workers as I may need it!

Whilst we have some spare money available, we’ve decided to decorate her room and are looking at options for furniture in Wigton too. When we originally did the nursery, we didn’t bother replacing all the furniture as we had enough to be doing in preparation for her arrival and I suppose we thought the furniture was in an okay condition. But…how quickly times have changed!

We aren’t talking state of the art furniture or anything like that, but if we decorate the room without the furniture, the room would certainly look amiss!

One of the other mum’s at baby and toddler group was telling me about a website at www.furniturestoreswigton.co.uk. Apparently the furniture shop sells allsorts of options for furniture of all kinds. Unless you go to some of the bigger players, you are pretty limited for furniture options in Wigton!

I had a look at their website at www.furniturestoreswigton.co.uk and the company looks very good. My husband can’t come with me until the weekend but I have pencilled the visit in my diary as a must!

I usually hate furniture shopping but shopping for your little one seems somewhat more exciting!

I was dealing with a very particular client who had incredibly specific ideas on what he wanted for his home. I tried to find the curtains that he wanted ready made, but I just couldn’t find them. So I had to find someone who could make the curtains for his home. Luckily I found www.madetomeasurecurtainsware.co.uk. To make things awkward, the window measurements for his home were unusual because of the window size, so I really needed experts who could make the curtains that he was looking for to the exact measurement specifications of the room.

I was searching high and low for a company who had the experience to make the curtains to mine and my client’s exacting standards. After a long search, I found

www.madetomeasurecurtainsware.co.uk. They made the curtains to an amazingly high standard and I was really pleased with their service.

I would definitely recommend the company to everybody who is looking for amazing made to measure curtains, because they gave me exactly what I was looking for. My very particular client was happy too!

I had trawled the shops in my area to no avail; I just couldn’t find the furnishings that I was looking for. Then I found www.livingroomsofasinaberystwyth.co.uk. The company had the luxurious beds that I was wanted at reasonable prices. All of the staff were incredibly friendly and I was very happy with the service I received. Now the bedrooms in our house look fantastic. The beds are so comfortable too.

I needed a three piece suite for my living room as well, and they were able to help me with that too. Now all of my home decorating is finally finished (thank goodness!), I am so glad that I found www.livingroomsofasinaberystwyth.co.uk as they had all of the furnishings I needed to make my house a home.

Unfortunately so did the birds from our garden. By the end of the summer, the roof was looking pretty dirty and it was a big job to keep it clean.

My partner decided we should put in some blinds in part to keep the blinding sun out, but also to cover up some of the bird mess.

I searched on the internet for a local blinds company and skimmed through the websites of the first ten. The one that impressed me the most was www.blindinstallationbrighton.co.uk.

Its website was fantastic, with lots of beautiful images. In fact the conservatory blinds were so stunning, I was worried we wouldn’t be able to afford one.

After speaking to the salesman there, I was relieved when he quoted approximate prices. They were definitely in our ballpark.

We had a man to come over and measure up immediately. The quote was reasonable and the blinds were in stock so we could have them fitted promptly.

Overall we couldn’t fault the service at www.blindinstallationbrighton.co.uk. We spend even more time in the conservatory now, and our consumption of gin and tonics has definitely gone up accordingly.

I had based the room’s colour scheme around a room I’d seen in a magazine, and I’d also seen a lovely leather armchair in the article. Sadly, we couldn’t afford the one suggested.

The two shops I knew about didn’t stock anything similar, so my friend suggested searching online for furniture shops in Blackpool.

Two minutes later, and I had a whole list of them. I trawled the websites on the first page of the results for leather armchairs.

One armchair in particular caught my eye. It was almost a replica of the one in the magazine article, but at the fraction of the price.

Their showroom was not far away, so my boyfriend and I drove over one Saturday.

Even better, they were having a sale on.

The armchair looked perfect and was on offer. We took it home that day.

I’m very pleased we searched on the internet for furniture shops in Blackpool, or we might never have found this store. I’m going to start decorating the bedrooms now.

They are the sort of curtains that I am greatly ashamed of! They have been hung in my kitchen for years and whilst I do attempt to wash them in the washing machine every so often, even that doesn’t seem to get rid of those grubby marks! On top of that, the curtains must have picked up a mighty odour being around cooked food for so long!

The website www.woodenblindscheadle.co.uk seems to have a full range of blinds on offer at reasonable prices. I have researched into other types of blinds such as Venetian and drop downs but I love the look of wooden blinds and think they give a real traditional look to a room. I may also look at doing some other rooms with blinds rather than curtains if I take a shining to them!

I always hate the fact that I’d love to do so many different things in my house but I just never seem to get the time or be in the right frame of mind to do anything about it!

Maybe my new blinds will help me to become a little more twenty first century too!