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The Slow Scrub Challenge at BrocanteMe How does your house feel right now? Have you managed to squeeze in a Spring clean yet? Is it feeling as fresh as a daisy ready for all…
Goal Setting for Homemakers We are living in weird times aren’t we? Most of us have grown up in an era when life felt relatively stable and our sense of self and…
On Winterising (This is a vintage BrocanteHome post, refreshed and revived for seasonal inspiration). Now that the clocks have gone back I am ready to truly embrace the season ahead.…
The Autumn House Hello me Darlings, welcome to Autumn at BrocanteHome! Today I bring you a newly revised and refreshed Life-Book edition of my cosy guide to all things Autumnal –…
On Not Being Precious I knew this girl once. She bought a dining room table and chair set, and she was that proud of it, she didn’t take the plastic it came…
The Domestic Groundhog Unless we are very, very lucky indeed, life occasionally has an element of repetition. In fact let’s go completely nuts and admit that there are times when living…
On Creating a Quiet Place Life is ludicrously noisy. If it isn’t the television blurring, it is the kids nattering, the phone ringing or the neighbours lawnmower chugging. We are surrounded by noise.…
Minutiae When the house becomes the extent of your world, however temporary it may be, it is terribly easy to narrow your focus to the minutiae of domesticity. To…
The Shift And just like that, it feels like its over when we know deep within our bones that it is not. But there has been a shift. A shift…
Notes From Isolation I keep waking up with my arms folded across my chest, like a stern, disappointed headmistress and for a moment I forget that the world is standing on…
Notes From Isolation It is possible that over the years I have become less truthful than I once was. Less willing to spill my woes on to the virtual page for…
Notes From Isolation If truth be told, this virus has rendered me a teeny bit bonkers, for though I am doing my best to appear unruffled, it is quite possible my…
Home and The Corona Virus When faced with the kind of wolf we may not necessarily be able to keep from the door, it falls to us as Mistress of the house not…
Making The Bed The Brocante Way… ** Making Your Bed the Brocante Way is a vintage BrocanteHome post I regularly update to remind you that even bedtime should be a little less ordinary…** It…