We don't always end up living in our ideal home and even if we do, we sometimes lose sight of what we loved about it in the first place that made us choose it. Sometimes it's time to move and sometimes it's just time to retreasure your home and there are many ways to do so, from simply giving it a spring clean to having an architect come in and advise on how to restructure, improve or even extend in order to make it a space we want to live in.

If the budget is tight the library is often a good place to start for books on home-improvement or if you buy magazines then keep the images you like in a scrapbook until those ideas can be produced by rearranging or improving what you already have or you find the right thing at the right price.

Recently, after spending half a day in a large furniture shop and not seeing exactly what suited, we went home with enough ideas to inspire a swapping of the furniture between three different rooms which meant we didn't actually need anything new at all!

When we first moved into our home the main bedroom had fitted double wardrobes but with only hanging room. We, meanwhile, had brought with us some mis-matched inherited old drawers that took up space. We found that a set of drawers fit inside each wardrobe and could be nicely hidden away whilst leaving a bit of room in each wardrobe for the longer items. A lick of paint on the doors and a spray of metalic paint on the handles and we had a space that has met our needs perfectly for the past ten years and meant we didn't need to throw out or buy anything new.

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