Award winning Interior Stylist Maxine Brady London, Brighton & Sussex, UK.
You can tell a lot about a home from it’s front door. Mine was screaming ‘Urgh!’ Time to ditch the depressing door and replace it for something that is well…a little more me! This is my little video on the actually front door makeover so you can see it all in the flesh. [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89JGZM61eIg[/embedyt] Before: TheContinue reading Get Instant Curb Appeal with my Latest Video
It’s here – my bathroom makeover guide is live! Learn how to makeover your bathroom step-by-step with my expert tips. One of my home’s first big projects is finished, my bathroom. This is my bathroom makeover guide on what I learned along the way with lots of take-away tips and advice so you can discoverContinue reading Complete Bathroom Makeover Guide With Before & Afters
The sash windows at the front of my house never had any ‘curb appeal’. They were battered by Brighton’s sea air, paint was chipping off.Continue reading How To Restore Your Sash windows
This post charts one of my most successful home style projects (so far). I gave my £100 eBay sofa a makeover to make it look like expensive £2,000 sofa. Replacing the tired sofa covers was simple, cheap and quick. Wondering how you can give your sofa an £2000 overhaul? Well, guide complete with before + after photos. Before: Let’s start with the sofa. When I moved into my house backContinue reading How I got a £2,000 sofa for £100. How to buy a cheap sofa
Although the smallest area in my home, I’ve put a lot of time and thought into my tiny hallway. This is the first of many posts on it’s slowly emerging makeover. Today, I’m going to show you how I replaced my ugly, and quiet frankly, dangerous, 1970s staircase with smart banisters and a handrail from Richard Burbridge. Well, whereContinue reading Guide To Replacing Your Staircase Banisters
I wanted to give my very neglected bedroom a mini overhaul. Using a heap of style tricks I keep up my jumper just for these occasions, I gave my room a little fix. And Volia! Here’s my instant makeover following my 11 secret stylist’s tricks. And the best bit, you can enter to win my ‘style kit’ to create this look at home. BEFORE: Continue reading 11 Secret Interior Stylist tricks for your bedroom
I’d want to share one of my most successful building makeovers in the house: when I swapped a rotten sash window with a beautiful, modern alumium door. Let me prepare you here – this was no small job (dust! dust! dust!) but the impact is intense. It’s opened up the back of my house, allowing natural light to flood into aContinue reading Installing A Contemporary Back Door
Here is a blog post about my underfloor heating install in my small kitchen I’ve been so busy with the renovations on the house since I moved in. So far I’ve made over the windows, a boiler install and sprinkled a little bit of magic in the garden. Now, I’m starting on the fun stuff which is making over THE KITCHEN. It’s been overhauled from top-to-bottom (which I amContinue reading Why your small kitchen needs Underfloor Heating Right now
It’s here! It’s Chriiiiiiiistmas! Time to Jingle All The Way. I got a little bit excited and dressed up official blog mascot – TeddyContinue reading Merry Christmas From Maxine Brady and Teddy
I love giving my home a bit of Christmas sparkle and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune either. With a few simple style tricks, let me show you how to give your mantlepiece a little seasonal magic for less than £7. Let me show you how I did it in my own home with this easy how-to guide.Continue reading Ideas For Your Christmas Mantlepiece
Want to know how to become an interior stylist? I’m Maxine Brady, a Brighton-based stylist working across London, Sussex and beyond. Over 20 years, I’ve gone from assisting on magazine shoots to styling homes, brands, and TV shows. In this post, I’ll share the 5 key steps that helped me build a successful career inContinue reading How I Became an Interior Stylist: 5 Ways To Kick Start Your Styling Career Right Now
Today, I want to talk you through my dining room ideas….well, I call it a dining room – which sounds a little grand.Continue reading Styling Tricks For An Open-plan Dining Room
The time has finally come – we are just weeks away from FINISHING our mega home project – an open-plan living + dining space. Woop! Woop! I’ve never done that ‘open-plan-living-thing’ before and it has taken me months and months to work out what to do with the space (you wouldn’t think I did this for aContinue reading Decorating Ideas For Open-Plan Living Roomsw
Bathrooms are quickly becoming the hottest room of the house to makeover (in my opinion). If you were thinking of giving your bathroom a little facelift – then make sure you visit on-line bathroom experts – Bathroom-Takeaway. They are offering WeLoveHome’s followers a 20% off any purchase! Wooha! Use the code to treat your room to a few simple updates like new taps or a fancy newContinue reading 20% discount at Bathroom Takeaway
If windows are the eyes of the house, then mine had a serious eye infection! From the moment I bought my house – I was desperate to fix my crummy sash windows. They looked dreadful (cracking and crumbling when you just touch them) but they also were letting in rain water which was causing –Continue reading How To Save and Restore Your Sash Windows