18/06/2021
If you're anything like me, you might have moments of disatisfaction as you move through your home. Each time you catch sight of a piece of furniture you don't like, or a corner you're not making the most of, or a window that needs a curtain, or a crack in your bed frame, or a picture that needs hanging but it's just been leaning against a wall for years now.
If you're anything like me, you feel shame start to spiral when you look out of your window in the morning and see your empty, featureless garden - lots of people don't even have gardens, and here I am just letting a patch of land go unused? Squandering this privilege, this opportunity, this duty to create something at least ecologically helpful if not fully beautiful? I meant to make it pretty during lockdown so that I could have people over when the rules said to meet outside but then for whatever reason I just didn't.
If you're anything like me, sometimes all the stuff just piles up and piled up and you feel like you're being buried beneath an unconquerable mountain of things you never needed and now don't even want, crushed by the memories of every failed dream you ever had.
I have a secret magical superpower though: long ago I learned the secret to granting wishes. It just takes a bit of hard work! That's it. That's the whole secret. I can fix things around your house. I can turn your garden into a paradise. I regularly dig myself out from under the crushing mountain of unfinished tasks, and I can do it for you too.
Send me a message. Drop me an email. Even give me a call if you feel up to it. We can have a video chat where you show me what needs doing, no judgement or dismay - only support. I'll give you a quote, we'll figure out a time for me to come over. I can make your wishes come true.
Let's excavate your armchair out from under the laundry pile, use a couple tricks I know to make sure the laundry pile never goes there again, and then in the mornings you can sit peacefully in the armchair gazing out of the window and getting to know the birds through the steam of your coffee - like you always intended. I'll hang your pictures, mount your curtains, fix what needs fixing, and you'll never know I've been there except for how you feel happier in your home. I'll fetch furniture for you. If you can't find a piece of furniture that fits your vision then I can adapt from salvaged bits & pieces, reclaim and upcycled, or create something entirely original, both charming and ecologically friendly! I can trim the bushes in your garden, cut back the ferns, w**d out the nasty thistles and leave the friendly dandelions, fill your garden full of foxgloves, lavender, delicious herbs, happy little buzzy bees, bird feeders and bird baths, fruit trees, maybe a hammock or a sunbed, a few lovely chairs and rainproof cushions under a folding gazebo.
If you're anything like me then paradise is relaxing in the shade of the summer sun with a glass of slowly melting ice, surrounded by your friends drinking margaritas and sangria with their kids drinking icy fruit punch, rich flowery smells filling the air, light snacks on a nearby table, and the music of nature gently humming around you. It's okay if your vision of paradise is nothing like that - this is about you, not me. Let's make your home into your paradise.
