One of the key rooms we wanted to change was the kitchen – the property’s original kitchen was well past its best, and had really seen better days. We knocked through from an useless utility room to the original dining room, removing the archway (adding some lintels above the position of the arch & door…

Great progress today – starting to feel like the house is slowly coming together now. Lounge plastering is well underway; bedroom 1 has had all of the remaining mess/carpet tape removed along with the first coat of paint on the replastered walls & ceiling and the remaining paintwork in bedroom 2 completed. We’ve also made…

It was long & drawn out… but the built in wardrobes are no more.    (Start to finish in about 4 hours !) I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an over-engineered construction in a bedroom! Today’s flat-pack offerings are positively fragile in comparison, but on the plus side if you decide you’ve had enough…

Things finally seem to be building up a solid head of steam & are starting to move forwards….! Bedroom 1’s new plaster’s nearly dry and we’ve made inroads today into getting the room finished. The carpet’s been pulled up to reveal a floor that has tons of potential if sanded & varnished; skirting has been…

With another day of brilliant weather upon us we took the opportunity to tidy up & plant the rest of the front borders. The day started off with a trip to a nearby garden centre to stock up on plants followed promptly by B&Q for more (yes, more!) compost & plant food. Heading home with…

Haven’t posted anything to here for a while, but work is needless to say very much ongoing! Since the last post bedroom 1 has been replastered (and is still currently slowly drying out before we can paint it!); walls & ceiling in bedroom 2 have been repainted; walls in the “en-suite” have been repainted and…