Punteha van Terheyden

Punteha van Terheyden

Editor

Hi! I'm Punteha van Terheyden, editor of Real Homes. I love learning how to DIY well so I can personalize the small, newly-built home I share with my husband, our daughter, and two silly feline floofs out in the quiet of the country.

Living with chronic pain means small makeovers I can manage with limited energy and ones that make me happy every time I look at them, take priority. Making the best of my limited space, budget, and energy drives the projects I can do, but I still want my home to feel like 'me‘ and chipping away at personalising my little home brings me much joy.

In my spare time, I love batch-cooking the Iranian dishes I grew up eating, puttering around the house and daydreaming about the forever-home we'll one day hopefully buy.

Punteha van Terheyden

Two pictures of painted ceilings in the writer's home. Left is terracotta small home office with green tasselled ceiling shade and right is neutral bedroom with gallery wall and navy blue floor to ceiling wardrobes

The 6 things I wish I knew before painting the ceilings in my home

It looks beautiful, but if I'd known these things beforehand, this DIY task would have been a lot easier

Decorating

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