A few years back after a bit of a rough break up, I moved back into my parents home and spent one too many nights on their sofa. After a few months I knew that in order to get my life back on track I needed to find somewhere to …
It’s not as epic as it sounds. Leading out from our utility room, we have a small “garden room”, as we now call it. It’s about 10ft by 5ft, so not a bad size, and it’s got a sliding door that opens out on the to garden. It’s in no …
Our house is over 100 years old – and over the years, people have made some (strange) decisions about the layout. We have 3 bedrooms, the biggest of which is at the front of the house, with the stairs separating it from the other rooms across the hall way. Over …
This might sound boring, so apologies if so – but I’d never replaced a bannister before. I had no idea where to begin, no idea what bits I’d need, and no idea if I could do it. But, I’m all up for a new challenge, so I just went ahead …
One of the best features of this house is the size of the kitchen. It’s big. Not only is it big, it also has another room just off it that houses the utilities (Washing machine, tumble drier, Dishwasher, sink, boiler etc). This means that the kitchen is spacious, and, well, …
I’ll be honest – we didn’t buy this house for it’s garden. We bought it for the number of good sized room it has – and the large kitchen, after having too many small kitchens where you can barely squeeze in. The garden is small, very small, and when we …
When we bought this house – we knew that we’d have to do an amount of work in every room. It wasn’t in a bad state by any means. The previous owner had been renting it out, so it was habitable, but was decorated badly, cheaply, as in, cheap laminate …
When we moved into our house last year we redecorated EVERY SINGLE room. It was a long process but we finally felt happy with (nearly every) room. However, there was something about Grayson’s room that we never felt fully happy with. Grayson has never been a great sleeper, and the …
It’s something I’ve wanted to do for years, but it just never seemed right, or possible. By “right”, I mean, I never felt settled enough in one place to commit the next 20 years to living there. I’ve always been a bit of a loose canon when it comes to …
After Mark and I had ‘officially’ been together a month or so, he was approached by an old work colleague, and discussions were had about an opening that had arisen. Mark was very excited by this, and I also encouraged him as I knew it would be something that he …