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Last month, the Tots100 Home Club Challenge focused on storage. It gave me the kick up the bum I needed to sort out our hallway clutter, and I’m pleased to say the new storage systems mean that our hallway has remained largely clutter-free since. This month, we’ve been challenged to look at our bedrooms. If your bedroom’s a dumping ground, full of piles of washing (yours and everybody else’s) – just a place to collapse at the end of a long day in order to get not enough sleep before the kids wake you up the next morning, then this… View Post

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It’s been a relief to finally manage to tackle our useless hallway. Impractical, frequently piled high with coats, shoes, bags and other assorted items, this area definitely needed some serious attention, and so was perfect fodder for the storage challenge set by the Tots100 Home Club in association with Homebase. Here’s how we got on… The antique church pew we bought from eBay was the starting point, and suits our home much better now it has had a coat of Dulux Misty Mountain matt emulsion from Homebase. It’s a great spot to perch, and there’s even space behind to hide… View Post

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Somehow, between Ben and I, we managed to get the huge Ikea Expedit shelving unit upstairs into the room that’s now my office. We broke it into a few parts to do it, and had some willing helpers when we came to put it back together…