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If you’re lucky enough to have a property with good quality floorboards, you’ve already won half the battle. There are so many properties that, over time, have been modernised losing the authenticity of a period property. By going back to basics you can restore the natural beauty of your home. Design isn’t the only reason you should consider renewing your floorboards over using carpets throughout your home. For a busy family home, well-cared for wooden flooring can be a godsend in terms of keeping them clean. Quality wooden floors finished off with quality wood dyes and varnishes will be much...

Hello to all our wonderful customers! We hope you and those close to you are keeping safe and well as life slowly returns to some normality.  For those of you who have placed orders with us over the last few months, we would like to assure you that our service is back to normal after we had to temporarily extend our dispatch times.  We'd like to thank you for your patience and loyalty over this period. We'd also like to introduce you to a new feature - the Littlefair's Fan Forum on Facebook!  For a while now, via our social media...

A little while ago my wife was looking for a large blackboard (The old-fashioned school type) as a presentation aid. Eventually she found the ideal one online albeit rather old and tatty looking. I was tasked with turning this into something more presentable. Not easy given its condition. The first area to be addressed was the easel stand, though solid, it was badly scarred in places and, over time, had lost the supporting pegs and the chalk tray. After cleaning the rust off the hinges I set about disguising the worst of the scratches (I didn’t want to strip, stain...

In our last blog we invited guest bloggers to write about using our products and we were delighted when Box Fox got in touch.  Ben runs a popular Instagram page showcasing his wonderful projects, often finished with our products. In this blog, he talks about our Water Based Sensual Soft White Wood Dye. Take it away, Ben... Littlefair’s Products for Outdoor Furniture I undertook a fun project recently, making a trellis and planter for my balcony’s wisteria plant using reclaimed 2x4s from an old project that were cluttering up my workspace. The project was built entirely with hand tools, using a...

Back in 2008, Shelly Wright left 20 years in social care behind to follow her dream of becoming a paramedic.  It was exactly what she'd hoped for, working hands on as she directly helped people.  Being 'small but mighty', she was never one to shirk a challenge and could be quite often found lugging around heavy equipment and riding unicycles (we're assuming this was on her days off!)  All this lead to a few injuries, including a particularly nasty one when a lifting belt snapped resulting in a damaged shoulder and torn bicep (ouch!) Unfortunately, these injuries took their toll...