Country interior design by MJ

When you think Seasonal designs in your home, what is the first thing you think about? Id say it was CHRISTMAS? Right? Yet, there are many more opportunities to give your tyred interiors an injection of PIZZAZZ 🤗 Here's a few suggestions: 1, Valentine's day-14th February.  Perfect for romantic dinner soiree.  2, Chinese New Year- February.  Dinner parties for the family  3, Easter- March- April.  Welcoming of Spring and Easter celebrations.  4, Mothering Sunday & Fathers Day-Perfect to spoil your parents  5, Saints Days- Hosting parties or just inviting your friends and family for a get together.  6, Birthdays- Wonderful opportunity to celebrate your special day  7, Charity Awareness Days, Weeks or Months- Giving you the opportunity to raise awareness of charities that are close to your hearts.  8, Baby Showers or Gender Reveals- Gather loved ones around to celebrate your happy news  9, Halloween- Spooktacular celebrations, mak...

Since starting my new venture into interior design back in February this year, I've been putting my energy into writing blogs that I hope would be helpful to you.  Writing content that resonates with you in your home and property businesses.  Throughout August, I have been preparing for my other passion project: Business in Bewdley BiB networking.  This month we have a Physical and Mental Health focused event and we are going to be Netwalking along the River in Bewdley. The whole emphasis of this is to help Entrepreneurs, freelancers and small business owners improve their Wellness. (Let me know if you want to join us) It's got me thinking about the fact that there is a whole other side to me, that you may not be aware of.  Over 10 years ago I left the Corporate World of Social Housing following Burnout.  It's a long story, yet since then I have gone on to achieve lots of great things, namely I wrote a selfhelp book #BurnouttoBold; in the hope it would help othe...

A number of years ago, we, that is my husband and I went on a road trip in our T5 Campervan down into the heart of France.  Namely Paris,the City of Love,  although we did visit other locations, such as Versailles and Font en Bleur just south West of Paris.  And it's such a beautiful place for interior design inspiration.   Parisian style is about embracing effortless sophistication, and the sentiment of romantic continuity.   Just watch Emily in Paris, the Streaming TV show and it will help you transform to the urban scroll of city living or the hit show: Versailles or the film of Marie Antoinette to get a flavour of the historic charisma of life in high society.  It just gets me every time 💗, maybe I'm an old romantic at heart, or just that I love; love, but for me the memories of Paris, help to believe that the Parisian interior design style is one for timeless elegance.   If you're planning a trip over to France soon, then there are...

I have a number of great friends in the hospitality industry, whom I've met since working with the International Hilton chain,  since being self employed (Through mainly networking events), and from extensive trips away with my Hubby and the biggest challenge for hoteliers is the occupancy rates.   If you're going to be running a sustainable business in this trade you have to do a number of things: *Customer Experience has to be a priority  *Use technology as an enabler to keep staff overheads affordable  *Have interiors that surpass expectations, surprise and delight guests. In a recent blog: Short stay let's, I go into more detail, go take a read.  In this post I want to focus on 'How you get customers returning time and time again' & 'Attract new guests'.  So the worry of occupancy rates are a distant memory.   Firstly, with Social Media marketing have such a huge impact on influencing our buying habits.  The likelihood is that pe...