Renovation
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Kitchen – stage three
So with the units replaced and the new floor laid, time to go to work on decorating. Much as I would love to have professional decorators do this, it is way too expensive…
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Roof – stage one
Just when we thought we were getting away (reasonably) lightly with things that could overtly be wrong with the house – we ran into a problem. A piece of the guttering at the…
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Kitchen – Stage two
We got the new floor in our kitchen today. I would have loved real encaustic tiles but they are excruciatingly expensive, so we went for the unauthentic option and bought vinyl cushion floor.…
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Kitchen – stage one
So the kitchen fitters were here for two long days and all the hideous units have been replaced. I’ve spent all of today putting everything back – this time with everything in a…
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Another little piece of history
It’s not all about the 19th Century – today I got the opportunity to start sorting out the total mess that has become of our linen since we moved (I’m trying to segregate…
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Here goes for the kitchen
The upstairs kitchen was actually one of the worst parts of the house when we bought it, so getting it redone was a priority. The units look as though they have been there…
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Nearly finished…
The games room is nearly finished now. I ended up with a huge pile of stuff in the hall, mostly cardboard from packing, but also stuff for the other two floors which was…
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Tiles and bread
We had the tilers here today putting up the new tiles in our main bathroom. This room was not in a good state when we moved in – it had a hideous 1990s…
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Basement Lounge
J’s lounge in the basement is a huge room with a bay window. For a basement it is really quite bright and airy but when we moved in it was not showing at…
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Saphy’s first bird
I had a hard day yesterday working at decorating. J’s basement lounge was basically in need of quite a lot of TLC – it had pretty awful wallpaper and a carpet that was…
