Renovation
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Decorating the bathroom
I am now finally able to decorate the bathroom and unpack the last of the boxes which have been on the landing for the last three months. Today I filled in a load…
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Woodworking class
I had another trip to Edinburgh yesterday (busy day). This was the second part of my woodworking course, which is to introduce you to basic woodworking techniques. We are building a “blanket ladder”…
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First shots of new bathroom
We finally managed to get our main bathroom finished apart from the decorating part which I will do this week. It is going to look very nice. But… If I ever do this…
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Edinburgh
As planned I paid my first visit to the big city today. I am going to have to admit that Edinburgh is actually my favourite city in UK (Rome is my favourite city…
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Fixing the window sill
Now I have the high ladder, I am going to try to fix this window sill. There is an obviously decayed bit on it, and it is the exterior sill for our much…
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Final stages of kitchen
I managed to finish painting the walls. Now I am putting some final touches to the room as there are a couple of ugly bits left, plus the walls look a bit bare.…
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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…
