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Cozy Winter Decor – French Country Cottage
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Cozy Winter Decor – French Country Cottage

January is one of those months that brings chilly winter temperatures outside and a whole lot of cozy touches inside. Cozy winter decor is a definite thing over here. Especially after the holiday decorations are full of so much ambiance- filling the house with warmth after the twinkle lights are packed away is key. While we all enjoy the clean slate a less busy house brings, it can tend to feel quite stark and lackluster. For lack of a better word.

Cozy Winter Decor – French Country Cottage

Today is all about simple, easy and quick ways to warm up the house for winter.

Fairy Lights

Those

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growing dahlias – my do’s and dont’s and learning as you go
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growing dahlias – my do’s and dont’s and learning as you go

I’ve been growing dahlias here for six or seven years now. It started with a tuber I found in a bargain corner at the garden center, and which turned out to be the most beautiful café au lait! I was immediately hooked, and have been growing them ever since, in increasing quantities each year.

Like everything else in the garden, there is an element of trial and error in growing dahlias. It took me a while for example to understand that I can leave some dahlias in the ground in certain parts of the garden, whereas elsewhere I have to

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The Home Improvement Projects Spring Sellers Should Tackle Now (And What To Skip)
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The Home Improvement Projects Spring Sellers Should Tackle Now (And What To Skip)

Sellers gearing up for the spring home shopping season need to roll up their sleeves now and spruce up their homes if they want to attract a shrinking pool of buyers. Investing in improvements, maintenance and repairs could pay off when it’s time to sell.

New research commissioned by Zillow and conducted by The Harris Poll found a majority of recent sellers (65%) took at least two home improvement projects to prepare their homes for sale, while

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Our MFCH tours for 2023
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Our MFCH tours for 2023

MFCH Lifestyle Tours

Oh my goodness, it feels so good to be back with a full schedule of MFCH Tours this year! In the Spring we took clients to Provence, and to Dordogne, and in the fall we covered Normandy and Paris. Still remaining is a private trip in October.

MFCH may tour to dordogne

All our clients this year have said the same thing, “it feels so good to travel again!”, especially on a luxury tour where every tiny detail is taken care of, and where clients are whisked away to private homes and gardens, and see things that tourists would never have access to.

Traveling is

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the tarte tatin – my autumn favourite
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the tarte tatin – my autumn favourite

When the apples are freshly picked and the temperatures begin to drop, we reach for our favorite comfort food, the tarte tatin.

I love making tarte tatin, or upside down apple tart. I love to eat tarte tatin too! The mix of freshly picked apples, cooked in butter and sugar and then baked beneath a pastry crust is a heavenly combination.

At this time of year when the apple trees are giving so generously, and we’re all getting into end of year-hibernating mode, this tart is true comfort food, and it is very easy to make.

To make the tart

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Dwelling enhancements to keep away from when including property worth, in line with property brokers
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Dwelling enhancements to keep away from when including property worth, in line with property brokers

3. Putting in a brand new kitchen

Most assume that placing in a brand new kitchen with state-of-the-art fixtures and fittings should be a no brainer when desirous to up the property worth, however in line with the property brokers, this isn’t the case.

They mentioned: “Whereas it is actually true that everybody loves an exquisite kitchen, not everybody agrees on what constitutes lovely. It is also not possible that your purchaser will need the identical home equipment that you just do, even when they’re the bee’s knees in your thoughts.

“So, whereas it might be tempting to overtake your

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the vacation season when the empty nest will get busy once more
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the vacation season when the empty nest will get busy once more

The vacation season is upon us, and it is a second once I cease to consider the best way that the empty nest has modified our day by day dwelling right here.

I believe that lots of you’ll know in regards to the empty nest. That uninteresting feeling within the pit of your abdomen as your ‘little ones’ fly away to seek out their very own paths and construct their very own lives. However after the preliminary shock, a brand new period comes: a reassessment of the day by day routine; reappropriating of house in the home, and little by

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and a cheerful new 12 months to you too….
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and a cheerful new 12 months to you too….

After an exquisite week with the home filled with three generations blended in collectively, I am lastly sitting down and pulling collectively my ideas and concepts for this 12 months’s finish and hopefully a cheerful new 12 months for all of us.

Do you continue to make New Yr’s resolutions? I am sorry to say that I do not. Name it laziness, name it lack of willpower or just me being sensible about what I’m able to sticking too!

There was a time after I would declare resolutions to “stroll each morning earlier than breakfast”, or “hand over wine” or

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