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We went from this…. To this….👏 In this blog I’m going to share in detail how I created the stencilled splashback.  If you want to know more about the actual renovation of the space, head over to my other blog: Marie’s Kitchen Makeover. So, this is where the inspo came from.  I found this pic on Pinterest and so wanted this look.   We actually sell a stencil with that exact wall tile design, the Florence Faux Tile Stencil.  As I had a large space to cover, and to speed up the project, I opted for a 6-tile repeat stencil. ...

This was our dining room when we first moved in.  It hadn’t been touched since the 90’s.  That fireplace just had to go and the woodchip too, it was everywhere! 😬 We knocked out the fireplace to reveal the original opening that housed the range cooker back in the day!  I wrote this blog to cover the stencilling part of my fireplace makeover.  If you want to know more on how the fireplace itself was built up then head over to Marie’s Fireplace Makeover.  But for now, let’s skip to the prep work before I started stencilling. We smoothed out...

I'm going to give you a step by step run down on how I went from this to this! This was our dining room when we first moved in.  It hadn’t been touched since the 90’s.  That fireplace just had to go and the woodchip too, it was everywhere! 😬 Those walls took some stripping.  But off it came, with most of the plaster too! 🙄 Check out the original fireplace, this was where the old range cooker was housed.  It’s hard to see on the photo but it is so tall and grand, albeit a bit lopsided though 🥴 Now...

Myself and Jasmin love a good stencilling project so when Pete said he wanted to stencil his bathroom floor we were more than happy to help out!  😃 Pete had already prepped the floor and applied a couple of coats of primer as a basecoat. All we had to do was the stencilling.  Pete loved the geometric Oriental look of the Belmont Hexagon Wall and Floor Tiles. We already had our eyes 👀 on this design some time ago as a stencil idea.  The tiles can be laid in numerous pattern ways but we chose the one we preferred and our...

The story so far... Our Indian stone patio had just been laid when we moved into our home in 2007 and the colours were beautiful. 13 yrs of power washing twice a year, it was a little jaded and needed some love and attention. After joining the Dizzy Duck family in April 2020 I was dying to stencil something!  The Zarzis was my favourite stencil design from the off.  It was always going to be that one for me ❤️ The hard part was choosing colours and as you can see, I went blue and bold.  We needed sunglasses for...