Banish the beige

Banish the beige Upside down house renovation, budget makeovers, NHS physiotherpist, 📍Chester

06/09/2026

HELP!! guys please can you choose 1 wallpaper (from the left 1, 2 or 3 and one paint colour for my bedroom makeover (can’t believe I’m actually saying that, it’s been 3.5 years of doing every other room in the house, finally our turn!!)
Paint colours:
Mustard tones- Madeleine, bassoon, sunlight or bombolone.
Neutrals- travertine mid, lute, silent white, silent white deep, travertine.

Thanks in advance 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

04/09/2026

It wouldn’t hurt to smile a bit more often 😆🫠. Anyhoo, here’s a delightful stew, super easy, in a bowl of bread 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼.

Recipe:

Slow cooker on high, use some decent olive oil, add in all your herbs & spices, add in veg & meat (I used onion, carrots, mushrooms & diced beef) 1x beef stock cube, lee & perrins (absolute must), tin tomatoes & fill with boiled water to about 3/4 of the way up the ingredients.
Cook on high for 5 hours.
Add some cornflour to thicken if needed.
Cut the top off a round loaf, scoop out the middle & fill up with stew 👌🏼. Obvs add red cabbage & brown sauce. Service with a glass of cab sav 👌🏼.

P.s changed my name back because I missed it and just couldn’t get on board with the new one, felt slightly cringe, wondering if anyone will actually notice because of how much you all associate me with banish the beige anyway. Let’s all just let it slip under the radar and present it was a bad dream!

A little St.Ives round up, here are all my recommendations:Stay: Cherished Cottages for beautiful really well looked aft...
02/09/2026

A little St.Ives round up, here are all my recommendations:
Stay: Cherished Cottages for beautiful really well looked after holiday homes, we come back time and time again, they do a 10% off for returning customers which is great. I do tend to wait until the last minute availability comes out for an even bigger saving too!
Eat: St. Eia ARDOR The Fish Shed St Ives Tate St Ives Coffee & Ice Cream The Yellow Canary café Crowst Porthmeor Cafe St.Ives WEST | Porthmeor Beach, St Ives Talay Thai Kitchen Mermaid Seafood Restaurant Porthgwidden Beach Cafe St Ives Bakery
Things to do:
Art galleries, paddle boarding, rock pooling, shopping, visit St.Michael’s mount (Marazion) & the Minack Theatre | Cornwall’s Iconic Outdoor Theatre try and book a show if you can. + kiln sauna + cornwall + saunas were fab £20 for 45 mins yoga & 45 mins in the sauna.
Take your drinks down to the beach in the evening & order from one of the takeaway beach cafes (make sure you buy a little beach tent to hide the food from the seagulls! Another little hack- take a camping trolley, we used it everyday all day for taking our stuff to the beach & teddy- it took 80kg weight which was brilliant you can get both of those on Amazon. We also used changing robes from Red Equipment for the first time, I didn’t know how much we really needed them, able to sit on the beach that bit longer & no moaning about being cold after going in the sea.

A few of you asked for some driveway stills, any questions, let me know!
21/08/2026

A few of you asked for some driveway stills, any questions, let me know!

Some of my favourite outfits this summer 🫶🏻. Lots of floaty lace, colour, stripes & comfort. I’ve tagged everything I ca...
20/08/2026

Some of my favourite outfits this summer 🫶🏻. Lots of floaty lace, colour, stripes & comfort. I’ve tagged everything I can so comment links and I will send over a DM.
We have a lovely day planned, visiting G r a c e 6 children between us so…😆. Now just got to pack for a trip to St.Ives, move everything out of the downstairs ready for some building work in our bedroom (it’s finally getting done!!). Sort Albie’s bedroom out (that’s all decorated now). And get one child to my mums to sleepover & travel down (spreading the emotional load).



https://liketk.it/6liDY

14/08/2026

Driveway reveal & where everything is from
Ah gosh, I cannot even begin to tell you how happy I am, 1. To be able to park on the drive. 2. For everything to feel clean and neat.
The railings are being fitted today, they then need to be measure for the glass. We also still need to add the fence & buy some plants but what a huge difference this has made. So lovely to chat to people walking by who have been watching the transformation too!

Amazing holiday with out lovely friends, we flew from Manchester to Malaga 2.5 hrs which I feel is the perfect amount of...
12/08/2026

Amazing holiday with out lovely friends, we flew from Manchester to Malaga 2.5 hrs which I feel is the perfect amount of time for kids 👌🏼

Flo wanted spotty nails like my middle one 🥹 I found my old uv lamp so they lasted all week 🙌🏻

“I’ll have a Coke Zero” said no 5 year old ever 🫠

Villa was absolutely incredible, this is where we are all our meals, perfect spot to keep an eye on the kids, we could gate off the pool/pond areas at night so they just played on this play area or made shows.

Fab pool area.

Ping pong champ outfit 💪🏼

We love going away together, the kids all play so well and we actually feel like we get a lie down, I read 8 chapters of my book 😆👌🏼

BBQ prep area, busy guys 🧑‍🍳

James & I made a paella, could have been more Spanish if you ask me 💁🏻‍♀️

A rare family picture

And a not so rare pals picture

Casares village, did you know they pay the property owners €600 per year to keep their homes white washed!

Greek night, outfits not planned but very much enjoyed!

The show tickets & halftime snacks!

There were ponds at the bottom of the garden, loved having a nature walk and spotting the terrapins 🐢

Villa is 7 bedrooms, fab aircon, hot tub, sauna, about 2.5 acres of land. Just brilliant for our group of 13.

Had a few Pilates sessions with Maria too, she’s learning to teach & practicing on us! Such a lovely thing to do together.

The only cava you need 🙌🏻🙌🏻

My sweet little angels

Popped to the beach, bit too pebbly for me though!

09/08/2026

Back from a fab week away in Spain 💛🩷💚🩵.

Comment SHOP below to receive a dm with the links to my outfits.



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29/07/2026

Comment ‘gingham’ and I will send the link to my set. Absolutely packing this for my holiday on Saturday ☀️ it’s so comfy I might even wear it on the plane ✈️.

26/07/2026

Part 5 Driveway update!! A great little site meeting with James & Niall from so many people keep on stopping to look & ask questions, they really have done such a brilliant job!
Grout is fugabella no. 21 on porcelain & limestone, no.44 on coping stones. So good as they have lots of colours to choose from so you can pick something that tones perfectly with your stone.
Any questions, let me know 👇🏼.

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