Maxine Brady | Interior Stylist, Props Stylist, Art Director & Home Decor Blogger
Interior stylist, events stylist, TV presenter, podcaster host with styling for magazines, public relations and advertising shoots. Brighton & London, UK. Home Decorating blog
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
With all my decorating almost finished, I’m shopping for one important finishing touch – amazing carpet. I need three: one for my stairs, my guest bedroom and my bedroom. The big question is – what do I replace my old trashed carpets with?Continue reading Buyer's Guide To Carpets
Want to give your home some va-va-voom with out breaking the bank? Here’s 8 insider tips to give your space bling factor on a (tiny) budget.Continue reading 8 budget home styling ideas – We Love Home in Marie Claire Magazine
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
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
I’ve loved featuring 3 projects from Kate Smith’s Makery Sewing book which has over 30 ideas in them. I’ve featured a few on the blog already which I’ve loved making and sewing. Mainly because they are so simple – perfect for someone like me who is not – lets be honest here, I’m not the bestContinue reading Win Kate Smith's Makery Sewing Craft Book
My previous home was so small so there was no way I could I squeeze in a Christmas Tree in my living room. There would be no room to sit down.Continue reading Win an Alternative Christmas Tree
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