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# Kezzabeth | DIY & Renovation Blog

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- [DIY: Exposing a Steel Beam & Fire Protection](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/11/diy-exposing-steel-beam-fire-protection.html) - Steel beams - you either love them or hate them. Their purpose has absolutely nothing to do with being an interior statement, but to safely support the building that sits on top of it. However with industrial interiors becoming a growing trend, there's nothing that quite punches a statement of industrialism more than an exposed
- [How to Fit/Install a DIY Kitchen](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/09/a-diy-guide-to-fitting-kitchen.html) - Back in January, after a year-long wait, I finally ordered our new kitchen. Yep, after months and months of hard work - a finish line was in sight! This kitchen is now the second kitchen that we've ever installed, so I thought I would do a proper blog post detailing how to fit your own
- [Chest of Drawers Makeover with V33 Multi-Surface Renovation Paint](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2024/06/chest-of-drawers-makeover-with-v33-multi-surface-renovation-paint.html) - *AD: This post is sponsored by V33. Last year we moved our master bedroom into the attic, so we could finally renovate our old room. The attic room, however, needs A LOT of work. We're talking new windows, plastering, and new electrics (there are currently no sockets up here!) - the lot! Due to the
- [DIY We Achieved in 2023 and Our Goals for 2024](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2024/03/diy-we-achieved-in-2023-and-our-goals-for-2024.html) - I'm doing this post a little bit differently this year, in the fact I'm combining two posts into one. What we achieved over the last twelve months AND our goals for the next year ahead. It'll come as no surprise that DIY has slowed down a lot since we now have a toddler running around. Find out what we've been up to in 2023 with our DIY home renovation! Plus, we're sharing our goals for the coming year too.
- [Decorating the Exterior of Our Victorian Terrace for Christmas](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2023/11/decorating-the-exterior-of-our-victorian-terrace-for-christmas.html) - *AD: This post is sponsored by Very.co.uk and contains gifted items. Since having a child, one of my favourite things to do at Christmas time is to go on a Christmas Light walk - not the kind you pay £££ to go to, but just walking the neighbourhood and looking at all the different lit-up
- [DIY Painted Stair Runner - Transforming Our Attic Stairs](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2023/02/diy-painted-stair-runner-transforming-our-attic-stairs.html) - *AD: This post is sponsored by V33. Next year we plan to begin renovating our bedroom, which means moving into the attic room. This room needs A LOT of TLC and unfortunately, this won't be happening any time soon. V33 got in touch and asked if I wanted to try out their stair paint, so
- [Creating a Pantry in A Victorian Cellar](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2023/01/creating-a-pantry-in-a-victorian-cellar.html) - *AD: This post is sponsored by V33. Two years ago, we took on an allotment plot and started to grow our own veg. It's been a lot of fun (and a lot of hard work!), and we've produced more veg than we can store in our kitchen alone. For that reason, we decided to change
- [Matching Period Skirting Boards with New Ones](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/01/matching-period-skirting-boards-with.html) - Luckily, our house still has most of its skirting and original architrave and although it isn't all in the best of condition, I'm really keen to preserve those original features. Sure they're massively overpainted, chipped and looking a bit tired in their age, but that suits me just fine. I love a house that sings
- [Our DIY & Home Renovation Goals for 2023](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2023/01/our-diy-home-renovation-goals-for-2023.html) - Happy New Year! It's that time again when we look back at our year of DIY and renovating - what we achieved and what we didn't achieve and we set ourselves a whole list of DIY and renovation goals for the new year ahead. We actually did quite well with last year's list, which you
- [What We Achieved in 2022 (12 Months of DIY)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/12/what-we-achieved-in-2022-diy-renovation.html) - As the year draws to a close, we like to look back at all the DIY and renovations we've achieved over the last 12 months. It's been quite a busy year and although we haven't done any particularly 'big' jobs this year, we've tackled LOADS of little ones! Including all of this... DIY Workbench in
- [DIY Painting a Freezer with V33 Radiator & Appliance Paint](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/11/diy-painting-a-freezer-with-v33-radiator-appliance-paint.html) - *AD: This post is sponsored by V33. A few months ago we decided to purchase a secondhand upright freezer for the basement, so we could have additional freezer space for storing our homegrown allotment veg. We paid £21 for the freezer and used Shiply* to have it delivered, a courier website I highly recommend which
- [DIY House Shaped Toy Storage](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/10/diy-house-shaped-toy-storage.html) - AD: This post is sponsored by Gorilla Glue Europe Ltd. Now that Dylan is a fast-growing toddler (where does the time go?!), he's beginning to accumulate a fair amount of toys; toys that need somewhere to live. So I decided to build a storage solution, DIY-style. I wanted it to be fun and quirky, but
- [Pallet Seating: A Quick and Easy Revamp](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/06/pallet-seating-a-quick-and-easy-revamp.html) - *AD: This post is sponsored by Very.co.uk and contains gifted items. It's been seven whole years since I built our DIY pallet seating for the garden and every year since we've continued to make changes to improve this corner of the garden. There's now a DIY brick fire pit, some gravel, a DIY garden mirror
- [Sealing a Leaky Coal Chute](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/04/sealing-a-leaky-coal-chute.html) - AD: This is a sponsored post in partnership with Gorilla UK. In the last few weeks, we've been prepping the old coal storage room in our cellar ready to turn it into a DIY workspace. But first, we needed to sort out one little issue - a leaky coal chute. Luckily, it's a relatively small
- [DIY Sliding Ladder Rail](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/03/diy-sliding-ladder-rail.html) - Back in 2018, we bought an old wooden extending ladder from eBay for £7.50. We used one section of the ladder as decoration, kind of like a shelf, for displaying random bits and bobs - see my wall ladder decoration post here. The other section has simply been propped against the wall with a different
- [How To Remove Painted Screws](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/02/how-to-remove-painted-screws.html) - How to remove heavily painted screws without stripping them? This is something I've been asked A LOT in my Instagram DMs over the years, so I thought I'd make a quick post to share how we deal with this and some tips we have if you ever need to attempt this job. Step 1 -
- [Installing A New Unvented Cylinder!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/02/installing-a-new-unvented-cylinder.html) - There wasn't a huge amount of renovation work in the year 2021 - partly due to having a baby and partly due to the crazy spike in the price of materials(!!). However, we did have one big (read: expensive) house update I've been yet to share - a new unvented cylinder! This has been a
- [Ecostrad iQ Ceramic WiFi Electric Radiator Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2021/04/ecostrad-iq-ceramic-wifi-electric-radiator-review.html) - *AD: This post is sponsored by Electric Radiators Direct. If you've followed this blog for a long time, you'll know we don't have gas central heating, but instead, use electric radiators (and of course, not forgetting our amazing log burner too!). The decision for this was mostly due to the fact we couldn't afford to
- [Our New Cellar Lighting - Installing Electric To A Victorian Basement](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2021/07/our-new-cellar-lighting-installing-electric-to-a-victorian-basement.html) - HALL-E-LUJAHH we finally have electricity in our victorian cellar! This has been such a long time coming, I can't even tell you! We probably finished working on the basement back in April/May of last year (2020) and then spent the rest of the year simply waiting and saving until we afford to move forward. Back
- [Another Year of Renovating: What We Achieved in 2021](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/01/another-year-of-renovating-what-we-achieved-in-2021.html) - 2021 wasn't the most productive year for us with renovating. In January we welcomed baby Dylan into the world and spent months thereafter focussing most of our time and attention on him. It was definitely more of a "chilled" year than we're used to and actually, it was really nice to have some time out
- [Our DIY & Renovation Goals for 2022](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/01/our-diy-renovation-goals-for-2022.html) - Can you believe another year has zoomed by?! It's been a pretty good year for us, I mean, not so much when it comes to the DIY / Renovation - but this year we welcomed baby Dylan into the world and have had 11 crazy months watching him grow instead! He's now crawling, trying very
- [How to Make DIY Scaffold Board Shelves](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2022/01/diy-scaffold-board-shelves.html) - Now we finally have electricity in our victorian cellar, we can actually start to properly use the space! And what better way than making some DIY scaffold board shelves for our ever-growing collection of DIY tools?! This is a really simple DIY and you can adapt it in so many different ways. Maybe you want
- [Our First Year With An Allotment - What We Learnt](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2021/11/our-first-year-with-an-allotment-what-we-learnt.html) - It's been an entire year since we took ownership of our allotment plot - and what a crazy fast year it's been! We knew having an allotment was going to be a challenge, being complete novices to growing fruit and veg and not forgetting the fact we also had a newborn on our hands too!
- [Worktop Express Review - Our Kitchen Worktops 4 Years On!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2021/07/worktop-express-review-our-kitchen-worktops-4-years-on.html) - *AD: This post is sponsored by Worktop Express, however, our kitchen worktops were purchased with our own hard-earned cash, 4 years ago. It's been a while since I've featured the kitchen on the blog and more shockingly, it's been FOUR YEARS since it's been installed! I know - where has the time gone? If you
- [DIY How to Build Pallet Seating](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/08/diy-how-to-build-pallet-seating.html) - So I've finally gotten 'round to building the DIY pallet seating that I've been planning since April! You wouldn't believe how long I've had these pallets sat in the house, just waiting to be used! I purchased them from someone local off eBay for just £1 a pallet (I bought 14) and the great thing about
- [Our Ash Worktops from Worktop Express (And How we Fit Them!)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/12/ash-worktops-from-worktop-express.html) - It's no secret that I love wood. I love our wooden floorboards, I love our solid oak wardrobe, I even love my rustic pallet seating. Wood is a great material to work with for DIYers, it can be renovated and refurbished in the years to come and if looked after properly - it can truly
- [How to Make a DIY Garden Mirror](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/01/how-to-make-a-diy-garden-mirror.html) - *This DIY is sponsored by Skil Power Tools UK and contains affiliate links to eBay, Amazon, Wickes and B&Q.If you fancy bringing a bit of interior design to our outdoor space, then a mirror is a great way to do it! Not only can it enlarge a small space and help reflect some greenery, but
- [Are You Asbestos Aware?](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/04/are-you-asbestos-aware.html) - We're always talking about DIY and renovating. How to make a home better, how to rip out walls, pull of tiles, smash up a kitchen, tear up the floor - you get the picture. But what often doesn't get talked about are the dangers behind a renovation. There's many, but the most hidden and potentially
- [Meet Our New Baby Apprentice!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2021/03/meet-our-new-baby-apprentice.html) - Well, hello! It's been a while since I've properly posted on here. For the last 9 months, I've been growing a baby in my tummy and 6 weeks ago we welcomed our little guy into the world. So, I thought it was about time I introduced you to our new little apprentice. Meet baby Dylan!
- [Our Renovation Plans for 2021](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2021/02/our-renovation-plans-for-2021.html) - Needless to say, 2021 isn't going to be a huge year for renovating now we have a baby in tow! However, we do still have a few things we'd like to achieve. At the start of every new year, I generally share our plans for that year, so I thought I'd still do the same
- [12 Months of Renovations - What We Achieved in 2020!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/12/12-months-of-renovations-what-we-achieved-in-2020.html) - Every year I write a list of projects we'd like to achieve within the next 12 months and at the end of the year I look back at how successful (or not!) we were in achieving them. Last year we set ourselves four main projects (you can read the original blog post here), which included:
- [Our Biggest Project Yet!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/12/our-biggest-project-yet.html) - If it wasn't obvious from the image above, our biggest project yet isn't actually a renovation project, but in fact, a baby! Yes, I've been growing a tiny human for a while now, the due date is getting crazily close, I'm already on maternity leave and I felt it was about time I shared this
- [Preparing An Allotment for Winter - Our New Plot!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/10/preparing-an-allotment-for-winter-our-new-plot.html) - *AD: This post is part of a paid partnership with Bosch Home & Garden. Back in July, we took on an allotment plot after putting our names down on a waiting list last year. I shared a little look around our new allotment soon after, although admittedly, it just looked like one crazy overgrown mess!
- [Why Your Cellar Walls Need to Breathe (And Why We're NOT Tanking)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/11/why-your-cellar-walls-need-to-breathe-and-why-were-not-tanking.html) - Renovations in our old victorian basement cellar have begun, and although it's very slow progress, this is a project I'm so excited to develop! So far, we've stripped back the walls, opened up the fireplace and we've even added in a window. We've made great headway, but we still have plenty left to achieve before
- [How To Make DIY Triangle Shelves (Plus the new POWER FOR ALL ALLIANCE)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/07/how-to-make-diy-triangle-shaped-shelves.html) - *AD: This DIY is part of a paid partnership campaign with Bosch Home & Garden and contains some affiliate links. I thought it was about time I treated you all to a new and super easy DIY, and today’s project is one I made for our conservatory. We’ve done lots of work in this room
- [DIY Zombie Mummy Pumpkin](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/zombie-mummy-pumpkin.html) - What a miserable day today has been; nothing less than non-stop rain! Although I must admit, I do really enjoy listening to the sound of the rain falling on the conservatory roof. I could listen for hours! Today was also the day our little puppy Doug lost his balls. Yep, he just had a bit
- [Restoring a Victorian Fireplace](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/06/restoring-victorian-fireplace.html) - Last year I started searing for a Victorian Fireplace to re-instate into the smallest bedroom. There would have originally been a fireplace in this room, but sadly at some point it's been removed. I searched both Gumtree and eBay for some time and actually ended up finding and buying two. Despite the first one I
- [DIY Fitting A Window In Our Victorian Basement Cellar](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/07/fitting-a-basement-or-cellar-window.html) - We knew our cellar once had a window, in fact, it once had two! But unfortunately for us, both have been removed and bricked up, which meant our basement had ZERO natural light. NONE! OK I lie, you could kinda see a small speck of daylight through the smallest of cracks underneath our front door,
- [Opening a Bricked Up Fireplace - A DIYers Guide](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/07/opening-a-bricked-up-fireplace-a-diyers-guide.html) - If you've followed us for a while now, you'll know this is a job we've completed FOUR times - with one more fireplace still to uncover. Opening up a bricked up fireplace isn't as scary as it sounds - in fact, it's fairly straightforward. BUT there are some things you'll need to keep in mind.
- [How to Build a DIY Gate From Pallet Wood](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/11/diy-how-to-build-pallet-wood-gate.html) - If you've followed me for a long time on Instagram, you'll remember I built a gate from pallet wood about two years ago for Grants mum's house, but I actually never got 'round to featuring on the blog. Luckily I'm making one again, bigger and better - and this time for our house and so,
- [DIY Rustic Wooden Tray](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/05/diy-rustic-wooden-tray.html) - With the kitchen under renovation, we've been forced to eat microwave meals for the last couple of months on account of not having an oven or anywhere to wash pots. It's been a little awkward to say the least and I realised one thing we really needed to make our lives a little easier, was
- [DIY Painting a Doormat](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/05/diy-painting-doormat.html) - Pre-made beautifully designed doormats can be quite pricey, so making your own DIY painted doormat is a brilliant and inexpensive solution to adding a bit of front door style! You get to come up with your own design and your creations will be truly bespoke and unique to you. It's really cheap to do and
- [Fitting a Lintel in a Chimney](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/08/opening-chimney-fitting-lintel.html) - On our mission to get the dining room chimney log-burner ready, we recently removed the old back boiler and uncovered a slightly questionable chimney opening. The original victorian supporting arch had been removed (I'm so damn angry at the 70s!) and turns out, our chimney was almost entirely unsupported! So today's DIY post is all
- [DIY Dog Toy Basket for the Garden](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/05/diy-dog-toy-basket-for-garden.html) - Having two dogs means having LOTS and lots of toys. I mean lots. When the summer brings the sun, our dogs love nothing better than taking every single toy out of the house and into the garden. Balls, Frisbee's, stuffed toys, you name it, the garden turns into a crazy mess of doggy toy heaven!
- [DIY Wire Memo Board](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/04/diy-wire-grid-memo-board.html) - When I first began planning the smallest bedroom/home office, I pinned a whole load of different images - many of which included a square wire memo board. It was different from other memo board I had come across before, as it has a slightly more industrial vibe to it, yet it was also modern and
- [DIY Garden Projects for the Spring](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/03/diy-garden-projects-for-spring.html) - Spring is on the way finally! Warm weather, I am ready for you! Lighter evenings, you will be truly welcomed! Yes yes, I love spring. Mostly because I love being outside and I hate cold dreary weather, which turns me into some kind of hibernating creature throughout the winter months. I am so excited to
- [Vintage Towel Rail Upcycle](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/11/monochrome-towel-rail-upcycle.html) - When we moved into this house earlier last year, we found the previous owner had left several bits and bobs throughout the home. Most were empty boxes, old lino, wallpaper and general rubbish, but there were some little beauties - a stack of old newspapers, (this may not excite everyone, but totally excites me!) a
- [DIY Geometric Painted Table Top](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/furniture-upycling-with-rustoleum-chalk.html) - Since we moved to our new house last year, I've been hoarding some old furniture (lots of furniture) ready for a few upcycling projects. I was given a few things from a friend's mum, who had a garage-load of her late Grandma's furniture which apparently nobody else in the family had wanted. She practically begged
- [DIY Building a Raised Bed with Decking Boards](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/05/building-raised-bed-with-deck-boards.html) - A while back, I shared some of our plans for the garden and how we'd added more privacy since our garden is fairly exposed due to the trellis-style fencing. Instead of replacing the fencing, I wanted to combat the privacy issues by adding some climbing plants instead. Doing this will also add more colour and
- [Fixing Up the Garden Chairs](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/04/fixing-up-garden-chairs.html) - A couple of years ago, I bought a set of wooden garden chairs as extra seating for a girlie BBQ I was hosting. They were pretty cheap at the time, I think around £35 for the pair, and I quite liked them! However, three years on, they're looking a little worse for wear. I've tried
- [DIY Advent Calendar (For Dogs?!)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/12/diy-advent-calendar-for-dogs.html) - So, the festivities are beginning! The Christmas Markets are set-up, the town lights are switched on, the home decorations have been fished out from their dusty corner and Advent Calendars are now finally being opened! - Admittedly this post may be a little too late but I'm going to share it anyway. Grant and I
- [DIY Halloween Tin Canisters!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/kids-halloween-party-treats.html) - Halloween is on the way! As I'm off work this week lolling around the house, I was feeling a bit artsy-fartsy and thought I'd do some pointless crafting. I wanted to do something for Halloween and thought these DIY halloween tin canister sweet pots would be perfect - they don't require much art and they
- [How to Seal Holes in Plant Pots](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/05/how-to-seal-holes-in-plant-pots.html) - I have a small obsession with plants - I just can't stop buying them. One of the things I love most about our garden is the variety of mature flowers and plants, but our house is the total opposite and has been lacking plant life for some time. I've been slowly building up our indoor
- [DIY Star Chalkboard](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/05/diy-star-chalkboard-wedding-centerpiece.html) - I love a challenge, so when Rustoleum got in touch asking if I'd like to join in with their DIY challenge, I simply couldn't say no. This DIY star chalkboard is super simple, inexpensive and can be used in a whole heap of different ways! For this particular challenge, I've styled it for use at
- [First House: Living Room Tour](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/05/living-room-tour.html) - In the process of waiting to move ahead in our house-selling venture, I thought I would take the time to show off our existing house. I don't have many 'before' photos and the ones I do have are on an older poor quality camera. So we'll just stick with how the room is now, for
- [Puppy Progress 12-14 Weeks](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/05/puppy-progress-12-14-weeks.html) - He's getting so big he's almost dog-size! Feeling slightly nostalgic at his puppyness even though it was only a few weeks ago! He still has a fair way to go until he's full size, but he's sure getting there swiftly. I remember saying to Grant that when he could jump on the sofa he was officially a
- [Easter Weekend](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/04/easter-weekend.html) - This weekend was what I call FAT-WEEKEND. Where eating twice the amount of daily calories is not only normal but required. We each chose our own Easter Egg and then bought a few smaller bits to share, although Grant did surprise me with a few extra eggs as well - I'm a spoilt girl ;) Mine was the
- [Puppy Progress 6-7 Weeks](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/04/doug-6-7-weeks.html) - 7 weeks Since puppies grow so faaast, I've tried to take as many pictures as possible to capture his growth. At 6 weeks he... Spent 90% of the day sleeping. And could literally fall asleep anywhere.He was so small he could walk underneath our adult dog Todd.He could also fit through the bars of the stair-gate.Was fairly interested
- [Puppy Arrival - Meet Doug!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/04/puppy-arrival-meet-doug.html) - A few days ago we went to pick up our new little bundle of fluff - Doug. He was 6 weeks old to the day and super sleepy, yet really playful too. I know some say pups shouldn't leave their mom until 8 weeks, but a lot of breeders give them up at 6 weeks.
- [Puppy Preps!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/04/puppy-preps.html) - Totally off house-topic, but exciting puppy news calls for exciting puppy blog! For a long time, we've been saying we'd get a new puppy with a new house... pretty much been saying this for the last two years. Our dog, Todd is now 7 and a half, and I think it's the right time given his age. A
- [DIY - Turning a Cupboard into a Laundry Room](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/01/diy-turning-cupboard-into-laundry-room.html) - Earlier in 2018, you may remember how we transformed an old cupboard at Grants parents house into a pantry. Well, we're back at it - this time turning a cupboard into a laundry room! OK so, the term 'room' might be a step too far, considering it's teeny tiny. But, we're essentially giving purpose to
- [We Have An Allotment!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/07/we-have-an-allotment.html) - This post probably doesn't need much introduction, does it? Yep, we finally have an allotment - it's something we've wanted for a LONG time and I'm SO excited to share that we now have one! It was about a year ago that we decided to put our name down on the waiting list for a
- [Staying Active During a Renovation & How It's Helped Me](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/05/staying-active-during-a-renovation-how-its-helped-me.html) - A little bit of a different post today, but I thought I'd touch on life outside of renovating. A renovation is all-consuming, isn't it?! When you have a whole house to tackle, small budgets to negotiate, rooms upon rooms to think about, practical issues to consider, design planning, need I go on? Needless to say
- [Stripping Back The Basement Walls](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/05/stripping-back-the-basement-walls.html) - Well I haven't shared an update in a while have I?! Truth is, basement DIY has been boring A.F. We've spent hours upon hours stripping back the old basement walls, which were covered in various materials from layers of thick paint to cement slurry, some kind of chalky stuff (I don't know?!), even 100year old
- [How to Revive White Grout Using a Grout Pen](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/05/grout-revival.html) - When we were choosing the finish of our kitchen floor, I didn't really think about the consequences of using white grout. We chose it because we thought it would bring out the black tiles, which it did. But I didn't really think about how grubby-looking and discoloured it would become (especially with having two dogs!).
- [How to Build a DIY Fire Pit Using Bricks For Under £25!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/09/diy-cheap-easy-fire-pit-for-under-25.html) - This post is either stupidly late since summer has been and gone - or perfectly timed, in preparation for Bonfire Night. You choose which ;) Building a fire pit was something I'd planned loooooong ago - seriously, over 2 years ago it appeared on this garden planning post. And finally, I have built one! Our
- [DIY Kitchens Review: Would We Recommend?](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/02/diy-kitchens-review-would-we-recommend.html) - One of the questions I get asked SO many times is "where did you get your kitchen from?" followed by "would you recommend them?". If you didn't already know, our kitchen is from DIY-Kitchens and the answer is YES, I would definitely recommend them. And I thought I would write an in-depth DIY-Kitchens review as
- [Pilkington Spacia™ Glass - Ultra Thin Double Glazing](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/01/pilkington-spacia-glass-ultra-thin-double-glazing.html) - *This post is in collaboration with Pilkington UK.Period properties - they're both fantastic and a bit of a bugger aren't they? If you have one, you'll know what I mean. Compared to new builds, they can be a nightmare when it comes to insulating and preventing heat loss. Modern materials often just aren't suitable for
- [Victorian Cellar - A Tour and What We Have Planned!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/01/victorian-cellar-a-tour-and-what-we-have-planned.html) - I'm so excited to finally be starting this project! If you haven't guessed by the title - we're doing a victorian cellar renovation! Yep, insane levels of excitement! When we started searching for a house, never in a million years did we think that we would be getting a cellar. And boy, did we get
- [DIY Plywood Fence Planter](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/01/diy-plywood-fence-planter.html) - *This DIY is part of a previous project, sponsored by SKIL Power Tools UK. This post also contains affiliate links.About a week ago I shared a little project I had made for the garden - a DIY garden mirror. Well, you may have noticed it was framed either side with some little planters? Yep, those
- [How to Fit a Ceramic Undermount Sink](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/01/how-to-fit-a-ceramic-undermount-sink.html) - Last year, we installed a whole new kitchen for Grants parents. It was a very long job and took months to complete. It was so much work, that I literally had no time to blog anything about it. Having said that, I've already written about DIY fitting a kitchen before, so I didn't really need
- [The 'Other' Kitchen Renovation: From Start to Finish (+ Full Breakdown of Costs)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/08/kitchen-renovation-start-to-finish-with-costs.html) - Jeeez, I haven't posted on here properly with renovation updates in such a long time. Back in January, I told you guys how we were beginning a whole new kitchen renovation - this time at Grants parents. It was a 6-month project that took so much of our time, meaning I haven't really been able to keep up with
- [5 Ways To Make Your Home Smarter](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/11/5-ways-to-make-your-home-smarter.html) - 'Smart Homes' are constantly being talked about nowadays; with the advance of technology, people are beginning to find their homes and the tech within it somewhat outdated. From the start of Smart TVs to the Smartphones, the Smart Technology group has grown rapidly over the last few years and who knows where it's going to
- [Renovations for 2020: What We Have Planned!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2020/01/renovations-for-2020-what-we-have-planned.html) - Gosh, I'm glad to see the back of 2019! It hasn't been a great year in many ways and I'm totally ready for a new decade. 2020 is a whole new year and of course, we have new house goals we're hoping to achieve! I'm not going to lie, I don't think we've managed to
- [12 Months of Renovations: What We Achieved in 2019](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/12/12-months-of-renovations-what-we-achieved-in-2019.html) - Bloody heck, how has ANOTHER year gone by?! Someone hit the pause button pleaaaase! Every year I write these 'what we've achieved' blog posts, but I have to say, I feel like this year has been a pure disaster when it comes to the number of renovations we've achieved in 2019. It's been pretty minimal,
- [DIY: Replacing and Fitting A Polycarbonate Conservatory Roof](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/04/replacing-conservatory-roof.html) - Our conservatory roof has been leaking pretty much since the day we moved in almost two years ago. I know how bad that sounds, really I do - but it wasn't that bad initially. But you probably already know how it goes - a small leak, turns into a bigger leak, which eventually turns into
- [Garden Renovating Begins: A Jungle Clean-Up​ Mission](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/07/jungle-clean-up-mission.html) - It's been just 13 days since we bought this mahoosive 3-bed house and after waiting what felt like FOREVER to move in, I was major pumped to get cracking with work! Being such a big house and needing so much to be done, it's been challenging trying to decide where to begin! This also needed
- [DIY Grass House Numbers](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/09/diy-faux-grass-house-numbers.html) - *This DIY was a sponsored paid project with B&Q and Erbauer for Instagram. I wasn't asked to share on here but wanted to do so anyway. This was a DIY project for Instagram back in March, but I thought it would make a nice blog post to share on here too. These DIY grass house
- [How uPVC Sash Windows Transformed Our House](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/09/how-upvc-sash-windows-transformed-our-house.html) - *I received a small discount on these windows for sharing the DIY installation process on the blog. All words and opinions are my own and I only promote products I genuinely can recommend. Back in May, we started the process of DIY installing new windows for the front of the house. But not just any
- [How to Remove and Restore an Old Door Lock](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/how-to-remove-and-restore-old-door-lock.html) - We're down to just completing some final finishing touches in the bathroom - one of which was to restore the old rim lock.We're actually going to be rehanging the door so that it opens up the opposite way, but more on that in another post. What it does mean however, is that the rim lock
- [6 Things to Consider When Choosing Tiles for Your Home](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/09/6-things-to-consider-when-choosing-tiles-for-your-home.html) - *This post is a paid collaboration with Crown Tiles. Choosing the right tiles for your home is sometimes easier said than done. Trust me, I know! The choice can be so overwhelming and there are so many different aspects to consider. Which material should you pick? Will it be easy to clean? Knowing what's right
- [5 Tools Under £5 You Need In Your Kit](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/11/5-diy-tools-under-5-worth-buying.html) - Having now owned a rather extensive DIY supply kit, I thought it was about time I shared some of our favourite tools (and not-so-favourite tools - coming soon...) that we think every toolkit needs. This list was really hard to narrow down if I'm honest and we've tried not to choose tools that are too
- [Holiday Plans Mk.3](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/02/holiday-plans-mk3.html) - It's offfficialll! We've booked a holiday! Why am I sharing this pointless information? Because I'm beyond excited and need to release my excitement somewhere ;) This holiday has been a long time in the making, we were originally meant to be going last year but due to complications with the sale of our first home
- [Adding Privacy to the Garden](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/02/adding-privacy-to-garden.html) - As you may or may not have noticed, our garden is very much open to the street; we have a partial brick wall with cut-out diamond fencing above it, enabling passers by on the street to look into our garden. I always had intentions to add a bit more privacy to our garden, but never
- [De-thatching the Lawn to Promote Grass Growth](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/03/de-thatching-lawn-to-promote-grass.html) - Sooo it's been a couple of months since I posted our winter garden update. Since that post, not much has changed and the lawn is still looking rather bedraggled, although it is STILL ALIVE! As spring is finally upon us (YES!!) I decided it was about time to try and fix things.I decided the biggest problem
- [Rendering the Garden Wall](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/03/rendering-garden-wall.html) - I decided some time ago that I wanted to render the raised border at the end of the garden. It was looking a little worse for wear, and whilst I do like things that look aged... this was just looking a mess. I also really disliked the change of brick between in bottom two layers.
- [Our First Home: The Before](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/03/our-first-home-before.html) - Warning: This post is quite photo-heavy.I've been recently looking through and organising some old photos and videos and came across the very few I have of our old house pre-renovation. Despite having links to room tours in the 'first home' section of this blog, I've never actually shared any of the renovation process or any
- [Karcher MV3 Wet & Dry Vacuum Cleaner Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/03/karcher-mv3-wet-dry-vacuum-cleaner.html) - I've waited some time to do this review as I wanted to give the MV3 enough time and usage before really making up my mind about it and sharing my opinions. Prior to purchasing this product, I couldn't find too many reviews on it, other than one-liners "did a good job in the garage" "nice
- [Don't Lean on the Garden Wall](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/04/dont-lean-on-garden-wall.html) - When we viewed this house before purchasing, the estate agents had no access to the backdoor key which meant we were unable to view the garden directly. We cared not, by the time we reached the front hallway we already knew we would be putting in an offer. So when we actually moved in, it
- [De-thatching the Lawn, an Update!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/04/de-thatching-lawn-update.html) - It's Spring! I am so ready for the sunshine and the never-ending supply of ice lollies taking over my freezer. Warmth and sunshine makes me happy! A couple of months ago I shared a winter-garden update in which our lawn had taken a bit of a beating through the winter. I decided to dethatch the
- [Building a Stud Wall with Recessed Shelving](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/04/building-stud-wall-with-recessed.html) - Not much has been happening on the bathroom renovation front for the last couple of weeks - we took a little break over easter and looked towards the garden to enjoy some of this gorgeous spring sunshine! Oh I'm so glad it's getting warm again.. I'm so not a winter kinda girl! But we're back
- [The DIY Friendly iPhone Case, a LifeProof Fré Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/06/the-diy-friendly-iphone-case-lifeproof.html) - There's something about DIY and expensive phones that just don't go together. Being a photo-taking maniac, I just can't resist a photo opportunity to upload on Instagram. Buuut when working in DIY dusty conditions, I tend to leave my phone outside the room and run off to get it at every opportunity, before returning it
- [Skimming the Ceiling, and a first time plastering!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/06/skimming-ceiling-and-first-time.html) - Finaaaallly the ceiling is plastered! It's been a looong time since we plasterboarded up there - around six months or so... Er, yeah. I won't go down the route of telling you all my many many excuses at why it has taken so long - but it is now done, that's all that matters. Right?I
- [Climbers in the Garden!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/06/climbers-in-garden.html) - Since building the raised bed along the side wall, I've been oohming and ahhhing about which climbing plants I wanted to buy. In the past when I've gone shopping for new plants, I've just selected plants that caught my eye and were on offer at the time. Fore-thought is definitely not something I've done with
- [3 Summer Interior Trends to Fall in Love with!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/06/3-summer-interior-trends-to-fall-in.html) - I was asked by Kent Blaxill to come up with three inspiring mood boards for interior colour trends this summer. And if there's anything I love doing - it's definitely looking at interior trends! If you haven't heard of Kent Blaxill, they offer a wide range of decorating supplies, including tools, wallpaper and an extensive
- [What Happens when You Leave Your Garden Unattended for 3 Weeks](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/what-happens-when-you-leave-your-garden.html) - OUR GARDEN TURNED INTO A MEADOW!I was expecting to return home to long grass, but this was beyond long, this was totally insane! I never knew grass could grow so manically long in such a short period of time. I even mowed the lawn on the shortest setting the day before we left! Of course
- [6 Affordable Sites for Buying Marble Tiles](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/6-affordable-sites-for-buying-marble.html) - Since we've been getting closer and closer to tiling the shower, I've been searching endlessly for sites offering affordable marble tiles. Whilst marble can price from £50-£100 per square metre (WOAH!) there are cheaper options too.I ordered samples from all the sites listed below and I can say first-hand that all the samples didn't actually
- [Jazzing Up the Window!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/08/jazzing-up-window.html) - Things are beginning to shape up in the bathroom! This big old ugly window has been screaming out for a face-lift since we began renovating in the bathroom.. And it's finally happened!The previous architraves on the window were plastic-y, huge and very out-of-place. All the other windows in the house (bar one) have the original
- [5 Great Products for Saving Energy! (and your bills)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/08/5-great-products-for-saving-energy-and.html) - When we bought this house a year ago, we knew we wanted to do as much as we could to cut down on everyday bills so that we could afford the ongoing costs of DIY and renovating our home. What better way to cut costs than to actually save energy too?Here's some top tips and
- [Selling Your Home? First Impressions are Everything!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/08/selling-your-home-first-impressions-are.html) - Last June we sold our first home after making heaps of improvements to it. Improvements that added value to its price-tag - Sure, the house didn't get bigger or move to a better neighbourhood - but this didn't matter. It's all about perception and this is the golden rule when selling your house: First Impressions
- [5 Stylish Electric Showers](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/08/5-luxury-electric-showers.html) - As the bathroom is getting more and more finishes (cue small celebration!) we're beginning to pick out the finishing touches and this includes choosing the actual shower! We're going for an electric shower because we're in the need of a new boiler (ours is outrageously old, uneconomical and we haven't used it since moving in)
- [Design Inspiration for Rooms with Roof Windows](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/08/design-inspiration-for-rooms-with-roof.html) - We still have lots of changes to make throughout the house, but one of the biggest changes we're currently saving for (amongst a few others) is installing roof windows. Roof windows are a great way to turn a dark space into a natural light-filled usable room! They basically make loft conversions possible. We already have
- [3 Ways to Light Up the Garden!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/08/3-ways-to-light-up-garden.html) - After having recently built our new pallet seating in the garden, I was on a mission to find some glorious outdoor lighting so that we can use our new little corner (and the rest of the garden!) even when the sun goes down. In our last house we had two sets of super awesome net
- [Beautiful Blooms & a Summer Garden Update!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/08/beautiful-blooms-summer-garden-update.html) - As we're only about a month away from Autumn beginning, I thought I'd look back at some photos of the garden this summer and share some of the best and beautiful blooms. Plus, take a little look at a summer garden update and how things are progressing!Last year we dug up and moved lots of
- [Surprise Bathroom Revamp: The Plan](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/08/surprise-bathroom-revamp-plan.html) - Grant's parents bathroom has in been in need of a serious revamp for some time now. When they let us live with them for a month last year we swore we would tackle their bathroom problems in return. But at that same time, money was the issue holding us back.Non-the-less, a year later - we're
- [42 Years of Old Carpet - Have we gone Nose-Blind?!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/42-years-of-old-carpet-have-we-gone.html) - The bank holiday weekend is over and summer is coming to an end, but why?! We didn't have a bank holiday weekend - working is retail means this national holiday doesn't exist for us - but I did take a short DIY and blogging break. I'm now back with not much progress to share... yet!
- [Removing the Asbestos Shed!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/removing-asbestos-shed.html) - We finally bit the bullet and paid to get the asbestos shed gone!I must say I'm pretty darn relieved. It was always on my mind as I spent time in the garden. Even though I know it was doing me no harm just being sat there - it wasn't in the greatest condition with a
- [Tiling the Shower!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/tiling-shower.html) - MORE bathroom progress; the shower cubicle is now tiled! This has been a long time coming as we actually bought the tiles before we went on holiday, back in June!We went for these two gorgeous marble tiles, both from Stonetrader.co.uk - the total cost came to £150 which I think isn't actually that bad for
- [Surprise Bathroom Makeover: Day 1 - Demolition](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/surprise-bathroom-makeover-day-1.html) - It's been the BUSIEST few days over at Grant's parents house. The bathroom makeover mission is now mostly complete, so I thought it was about time I shared the renovation process! To recap, here's what the bathroom looked like pre-renovation:Last Thursday Grants parents left for a little vacation whilst we took on the mammoth task
- [Surprise Bathroom Makeover: Day 2 - Pipework](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/surprise-bathroom-makeover-day-2.html) - Another day, another early start! We had an electrician booked in to arrive at around 8am to wire up the extractor fan, wire in the new shower unit and de-wire the old shower pump. We were also finally expecting our bathroom suite delivery which failed to turn up the day before. Long story short, the
- [Surprise Bathroom Makeover: Day 3 & 4 - Tiling!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/surprise-bathroom-makeover-day-3-4.html) - These two days were a total blur! In my bathroom planning post I mentioned that I wanted to use grey tiles against white walls - Well, I decided to turn this around (purely due to budget limitations) and use white tiles against grey walls. The colour I picked out was by Dulux - 'Misty Mirror'
- [Surprise Bathroom Makeover: Day 5 - Semi-Completion!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/surprise-bathroom-makeover-day-5-semi.html) - The big question is - did we get the bathroom completed on time?! No, no we did not. Five days just wasn't enough time. BUT, we did get pretty much near-to-completion so I'm still calling that a success! We have a few things left to finish off, so I'll do another completion post when everything
- [Panelling in the Bathroom](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/panelling-in-bathroom.html) - Back to updates of our own bathroom renovation - I am so pleased to say, we are literally days away from 95% completion!! There's always a few little niggly things that still need finishing - but the bathroom is now is a very-near state of COMPLETE usability! Can you believe it has taken this long?! This
- [Finishing the Bathroom Floor with Floor Wax](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/finishing-bathroom-floor-with-floor-wax.html) - Since we began renovating a year ago, our bathroom floor has been exposed to some serious dirty dirty work and was now looking a little worse for wear. As we're nearing completion on the bathroom(!!) I decided it was about time we sorted these ugly floorboards out. We decided to keep the flooring in the
- [Bathroom Progress: Installing the Bath & Basin!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/bathroom-progress-installing-bath-basin.html) - I have huuuge progress in the bathroom to share with you today - we now have a working bath and basin! OHYEAH. It's been a loooong time since we had usable water in the upstairs bathroom and it feels GREAT. After finishing the floor off last week, there was nothing left to do in here
- [Through the Blogger Keyhole: Win £100 John Lewis Vouchers!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/through-blogger-keyhole-win-100-john.html) - Over the past several months we've been busying ourselves renovating our new home. We've planned, prepped, got dirty, had a few little DIY mishaps and pushed through to the other side where a room has now become a place we can use and enjoy. It certainly hasn't been easy but it's most definitely been worth it!So
- [3 Simple Ways to Deal with Condensed Windows During the Condensation Season](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/3-simple-ways-to-deal-with-condensed.html) - It's October. Condensation season is upon us. Well, almost upon us - this glorious Indian Summer sadly has to come to an end eventually. Today I'm sharing with you the ways in which we have dealt with condensation in the past.What causes Condensation?Condensation can occur in any property, but in particular it most definitely will
- [Gorgeous Gardens: PureLand Japanese Garden](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/gorgeous-gardens-pureland-japanese.html) - Since this blog is all about the home and garden, I thought I would share a recent visit to one of the most gorgeous gardens I've ever visited!Last week we had the very last (I hope not - but probably so!) bout of summer sunshine, so we decided to take full advantage of it and
- [Installing the Shower & Enclosure](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/installing-shower-enclosure.html) - This post marks the end of our bathroom renovation. Everything else that's left to do in this room is purely decorative. The only largish (not large at all) jobs include re-hanging the door and boxing up the open stud wall, where we hope to build a hidden cupboard. But really, the bathroom is now pretty
- [Bathroom Makeover: Fitting a Towel Radiator](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/bathroom-makeover-fitting-towel-radiator.html) - A couple of months ago, we began renovating Grant's parents bathroom. It was a loooong arduous five days and we ended completing at just 70%, leaving a few jobs left to finish off. You can read about the renovation here, here, here and here. One of the jobs we had left to finish, was to fit
- [Buying a House at 20: What You Should Know](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/buying-house-at-20-what-you-should-know.html) - Buying your own home at 20 isn't most teenagers dream. It wasn't exactly mine, although I've always had a huge interest in home decor and period houses - I just didn't expect to be buying my own home so early in life. Why the rush, you ask? At 18 I had no clue what I
- [Renovation Begins in the Smallest Bedroom](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/renovation-begins-in-smallest-bedroom.html) - It's begun! We're finally begun renovating another room that isn't the bathroom (can you say, THANK THE LORD) and I'm super excited at the prospect of having another finished room. Let's hope this one doesn't take so long, eh?We've had a pretty hard financial month. There were car repairs (oh so many car repairs) and
- [How to Drill Through Marble Tiles](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/11/how-to-drill-through-marble-tiles.html) - When I first decided that I wanted marble tiles in our bathroom, Grant was somewhat concerned that we wouldn't be able to drill through them very easily. He thought we may actually be causing ourselves a bit of a headache. I did heaps of research at the time and decided to go ahead with the
- [Surprise Bathroom Makeover: The Reveal](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/11/surprise-bathroom-makeover-reveal.html) - We've had a pretty hectic week trying to finish off all the little jobs left to do at Grant's parents home. This was really our last opportunity to get everything complete before Christmas and we desperately wanted them to have a finished bathroom before Christmas Day! I was feeling a bit down towards the beginning
- [Rehanging the Bathroom Door To Swing the Opposite Way](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/11/rehanging-bathroom-door-to-swing.html) - When we first began planning the bathroom, we decided that in order to make the best use of the space in this room, we needed to rehang the bathroom door so that it opens in a 90degree swing against the wall, rather than the existing 180degrees against the furthest wall (now the new shower enclosure).It's
- [Frosted Window Film for the Bathroom](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/11/frosted-window-film-for-bathroom.html) - Since having finished the bathroom, we've been struggling with one major thing... Privacy. I love our giant 2m un-obscured window, it lets in so much light, as well as being a fabulous feature in the room. But it does have its downsides.. mainly the fact that it also lets our neighbours and passer-bys in too!
- [How to Prepare your Home for Guests This Christmas (+ a Giveaway!)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/12/how-to-prepare-your-home-for-guests.html) - We've entered into December! It's official, the countdown has begun, the lists have been made and the pressure has been piled on - all in preparation for that one perfect festive day. With so much to do, time certainly isn't on our side and I don't know about you, but I have way too much to
- [Repairing Cracks in a Lath and Plaster Ceiling](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/12/repairing-cracks-in-lath-and-plaster.html) - Progress continues in the smallest bedroom! It's been a pretty hectic month so far, so progress is far less than I would have liked. But non-the-less, we are making some progress and this week I tackled the cracked ceiling.When we renovated the bathroom, we chose to pull the entire ceiling down. It was horrendous. Seriously
- [Wishing You a Wonderful Christmas!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/12/wishing-you-wonderful-christmas.html) - I apologise for my blog being a bit quiet recently, it's been all-go here and I haven't had a lot of free time. I did have a few little Christmassy-DIYs planned, but the reality of renovating your home, keeping up a day-job (or night job, in my case) and trying to get extra little crafty
- [New Year, New.....Kitchen? (What We Have Planned for 2016)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/new-year-newkitchen-what-we-have.html) - Happy New Year to you all! I hope you're not too hungover ;) It was a relatively quiet one for us - no parties, little drinking, just a cosy night in. We don't have many of those!As the new year begins, we're beginning to think about and plan what we want to achieve in the
- [Repositioning Electrics & Adding a Spur](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/repositioning-electrics-adding-spur.html) - Welcome back to our spare bedroom! We've been working hard over the last few weeks in this room and whilst we're not quite finished just yet, we've made huge progress! Today I'm sharing some changes to the position of electrics in this room and also one small little installation.Remember the ceiling light that was placed
- [Kitchen Dreaming: It's all about the Grey](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/kitchen-dreaming-its-all-about-grey.html) - If you read my post on our renovation goals for 2016 you'll know the main focus of this year is on the kitchen. We have heaps to get done, including structural alterations, gas work, electrical work, plumbing and much much more. This is going to be a huge job and will take a huge amount
- [Let there be Light: Our New Bathroom Spotlight](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/let-there-be-light-our-new-bathroom.html) - When we had our extractor fan wired up by the electricians around 15 months ago (has it already been that long?!), we were asked whether or not we'd be having downlighting as well - a very common and popular trend for kitchens and bathrooms nowadays, but not always the cheapest option since they're often sold
- [7 Tips for Saving Money On A Renovation Project](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/7-tips-for-saving-money-on-renovation.html) - Hello January, the month we take a look at our finances and go "Oh my god" as we realise our bank account is declining year on year. It's also the month lots of our yearly bills renew giving us the opportunity to search for better deals and make better savings.I've spent the last four years
- [Opening Up a Victorian Chimney](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/opening-up-victorian-chimney.html) - One of the jobs I desperately wanted to tackle before Christmas was to open up the chimney in the smallest bedroom. Initially when I began planning the renovation for this room, I wasn't 100% sure whether I wanted to re-instate a fireplace in this room or not. It's not the biggest of bedrooms and putting
- [How to Survive without a Kitchen](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/how-to-survive-without-kitchen.html) - The time has come for us to begin packing up the kitchen ready for it to be completely ripped out. Since we have more to do in this room than simply just replacing the units, we're going to need to be without a kitchen for some time. We need to remove the old lead pipe,
- [Bathroom Reno: What I Would Have Done Differently](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/bathroom-reno-what-i-would-have-done.html) - This post may be a little premature since we haven't exactly finished the bathroom as such - there's still the hidden cupboard to fit, remaining panelling to install and generally this room needs a lot of finishing touches with its decor. But the bulk of this bathroom is complete and I don't think the list
- [Restoring Floorboards without Hiring a Professional Floor Sander](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/02/restoring-floorboards-without-hiring.html) - ...and I'm back! I took a random week off blogging as my creativity were seriously lacking and I just couldn't get my head into gear and type the words I was trying to say. I mostly blame the chaotic environment which surrounded my PC (an overloaded lounge full of storage boxes and DIY equipment!). Being
- [The Best Place to go for Antiques in Lincolnshire (and the whole of the East Midlands?!)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/02/the-best-place-to-go-for-antiques-in.html) - I absolutely love roaming through antique shops looking for quirky little pieces. Our town (Newark-on-Trent) is actually well known for its many antique shops, which sounds great - but really, you need a wallet the size of a bus to afford the kind of antiques they have on offer here. A lot of the antique
- [A Quick Look at the New Office](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/02/a-quick-look-at-new-office.html) - This room isn't quite picture-perfect ready yet, but as our home renovations are truly endless, it's hard to budget money towards the finishing touches and as such, our 'finished' rooms end up being somewhat sparse and actually quite unfinished for quite some time. This room is certainly going to be no exception. Whilst I have
- [Demolition in the Shower Room!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/02/demolition-in-shower-room.html) - It's that time again; dust, rubble, chaos and destruction! Yep, we're back on the demolition. Plans for our kitchen renovation are finally underway after much discussion, plotting and planning. And of course, it begins with some demo-work in the old shower room.This room was always the worst room in the house. It doesn't feel like
- [1 Month Without a Kitchen](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/02/1-month-without-kitchen.html) - We've officially hit ONE MONTH being kitchen-less.I have to be honest, I damn miss that crappy kitchen. Actually, the kitchen is mostly still intact - we still surprisingly even have a sink plumbed in. Which begs the question, why are we living without a kitchen? Well, it's now become a DIY tool dumping ground filled
- [Destruction in the Dining Room](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/02/destruction-in-dining-room.html) - If you hate grotty home renovation posts, close this window now. A pretty home, this is not. I promise I'll have some pretty photos and nice blog posts soon, I swear!Our kitchen renovation is underway and actually combines three different rooms which we're bringing together by removing two walls. It's quite a large space, which
- [Where to Find the Best Designer-Look Electric Radiators](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/03/where-to-find-best-designer-look.html) - If you've followed my blog for a while, you'll know we do not have gas central heating. OK I lie slightly - we do have a boiler, a very very very old back-boiler (it looks like a fire and sits inside the chimney stack) which is out-of-action. Back boilers are actually notorious for producing carbon
- [A Living Room Wish-List with Grace & Grey (+ a Giveaway!)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/03/a-living-room-wish-list-with-grace-grey.html) - It's no secret that our living room needs a lot of TLC. Retro carpets, dated wallpaper and a hideous fireplace are just a few of the many problems with our current living room. It's not a room that's on this years renovation to-do list (I wish it was!) but I still can't help and look
- [A Quick-Guide to Removing Polystyrene Ceiling Tiles](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/03/a-quick-guide-to-removing-polystyrene.html) - If you're here, it's probably because your house, or part of it, has been filled with dreaded polystyrene ceiling tiles. What were the 70s thinking? These were a major fire hazard, and let's face it - damn ugly! Affixed with several blobs of adhesive, glued up onto your ceiling, these aren't the easiest things to
- [Seriously Bargain eBay Purchases](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/03/my-most-bargain-ebay-purchases.html) - We've been in the renovation game for around five years now and we've certainly learnt a lot along the way, including how to make our money go further. Our biggest money saver? Going second hand.I know so many people who turn their noses up at those two words.. "second hand" and yet, I don't know
- [Spring Is Here! A Garden Update](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/03/spring-is-here-garden-update.html) - It's been a while since I've last done a garden update, so I thought it was about time I made another! I am so not a winter girl, the gloomy weather seriously affects my mood and generally I feel as though I'm endlessly waiting for better, sunnier days to come. Needless to say, I'm pretty
- [The Conservatory Goes Grey](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/03/the-conservatory-goes-grey.html) - I don't really know if you can call our conservatory a conservatory, it's not exactly what I envision when I hear that word. This 'room' is more like a dodgy lean-to, part built as a kind of garden greenhouse and partly built as a utility room. It houses plumbing for a washing machine, has a
- [2 Months Without a Kitchen](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/04/2-months-without-kitchen.html) - Does that say TWO MONTHS? This last month has absolutely flown! I have to admit, when we packed all our kitchen bits and bobs away, I certainly didn't anticipate being without means of cooking for much longer than six weeks. Whilst we're already at six weeks (and far beyond), I'm not sure we're any closer
- [Behind the Scenes | Renovation Woes](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/04/behind-scenes-renovation-woes.html) - I tend not to share too many of the negatives about a home renovation (believe me, there are many!!) as I'd prefer my blog to be a more positive and inspiring place. However, there comes a time when I feel as though I need to be completely honest and share some of the lows too.You'll
- [Planning a French Door Installation](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/04/converting-window-into-french-door.html) - One of this years biggest plans was to convert the old frosted window in the shower room (soon to be part of the kitchen) into a French door. The existing frosted window was so poorly fitted with a visible gap around the whole window, it's draughty, lets no light in and is all round just
- [Plans for the Conservatory](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/04/plans-for-conservatory.html) - Renovating the interior of the conservatory wasn't strictly planned for this year, but with the kitchen coming to a complete stand-still, I couldn't help but begin a new project elsewhere in the house. Up till now, the conservatory had been used pretty much as a walkway, as it provided the only door and access to
- [Saving History from the Skip](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/04/saving-history-from-skip.html) - I don't believe in luck, I believe everything in life is down to half chance. Last weekend I went to Wickes to pick up some timber for some renovations in the conservatory, on the way back my car broke down. It lost acceleration and started smoking from the bonnet. I pulled over and awaited rescue
- [Taking Out the Kitchen: Renovation Begins!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/04/taking-out-kitchen-renovation-begins.html) - This is the last demolition post I have to share with you, hopefully for the rest of the year! I've been putting off sharing this post for a while now as we've been doing this demolition very slowly over the last couple of months, removing only what we needed to at a time. (I really
- [What's Your Sofa Story?](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/04/whats-your-sofa-story.html) - Living in a building site can be really very draining. It's so important to be able to have places to relax around the house. Luckily we've already completed our bathroom renovations, so a good relaxing soak is most definitely welcomed every week. I also have my home study for a relaxing non-chaotic place to work,
- [Replacing the Conservatory Gutter & Installing Cladding](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/05/replacing-conservatory-gutter.html) - After having replaced the conservatory roof, the next job on the list for this room was the gutter. The new roof has a much longer overhang at the front than the previous roof, which meant the gutter needed to be lifted forwards to enable it to catch the dripping water. We also needed to fix
- [How to Plan Removing a Load Bearing Wall](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/05/how-to-plan-removing-load-bearing-wall.html) - Before I'd ever looked into removing a load bearing wall, I assumed it would be as simple as getting a builder in, fitting the beam and taking the wall down, job done. I'd never really thought about there being different beams for different loads, or that I would need to hire an engineer to calculate
- [Save Money on Plastering: Take a Course](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/05/save-money-on-plastering-take-course.html) - When it comes to paying tradesmen to do work for us, we only pay for jobs we know we cannot do ourselves, either legally or just because our skills do not match up to the job. That being said, we're happy to give most things a go and if I've learnt anything through our home
- [French Door Installation with Homebase & Evander](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/05/french-door-installation-with-homebase.html) - After nine weeks of waiting, the day finally arrived for the new French doors to be installed! You can read in my last post about the different options we looked at, why we're not doing this job ourselves and why we decided to go with Homebase here. In short, we picked Homebase Window and Doors
- [Keeping Your Home Secure Whilst You're Away](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/05/keeping-your-home-secure-whilst-youre.html) - By the time you will be reading this, I shall be travelling overseas and seeing the Cambodian sights. It's a trip we've been planning for a long time - I absolutely adore Asia and can't wait to experience another beautiful country over that side of the world. But leaving our home and all our worldly
- [A Little Catch Up](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/06/a-little-catch-up.html) - Whilst the blog's been a little bit quiet lately, life has actually been really busy! The home renovations are really hectic at the moment and I'm ridiculously behind on posts! Doing pretty much all the work ourselves is really draining, we desperately want things to move faster, but of course we don't want to compromise
- [Bringing the Walls Down](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/06/bringing-walls-down.html) - This post is ridiculously overdue; I don't know why I haven't shared it with you sooner, but it's what we had been waiting for, for SUCH a long time and yes, it has finally happened! If you remember my post back in April you'll remember the woes we were having with our builder whom we
- [Quirky Interiors: A Colour Changing Vase?!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/06/quirky-interiors-colour-changing-vase.html) - Our home isn't the most colourful place - I have a strangely large obsession with the colour grey and it's turning up everywhere. I love it so much that I think the colour is becoming a little dull looking in our house. Too much grey can become really very dreary, like a terrible dark dull
- [The Life of a DIYer](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/06/the-life-of-diyer.html) - Renovating a home DIY style means endless amounts of dust, cleaning the house religiously, showering about twelve times a day (slight exaggeration, but seriously sometimes twice is completely necessary!) and hours upon hours just working right into the late of night until our eyeballs have turned red. It's not a glamorous life in the slightest.
- [5 Years of Home Ownership](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/07/5-years-of-home-ownership.html) - Five years and 1 month ago, Grant and I purchased our very first home together. It wasn't the romantic buyers dream you might envision of a young couple buying a home. We had possibly the worlds smallest buyers funds and we didn't the opportunity to be picky in any way at all. In fact we
- [A New Window Treatment](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/07/a-new-window-treatment.html) - Back in the winter of last year we began renovating our smallest bedroom, turning it into a home office. Although we finished all the major work and moved everything in, many of the finishing touches laid completely unfinished. We're still yet to fit the Victorian fireplace I recently restored, the door needs rehanging, the built-in
- [Firing Up the Cooker](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/07/firing-up-cooker.html) - After almost four months living off microwave meals, we can finally eat real food again and oh boy am I beyond excited about it! It all started some months ago when we ripped out the kitchen leaving no where to cook or prepare food. I had been searching eBay for several weeks waiting for the
- [Home Renovation: Two Years On](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/07/home-renovation-two-years-on.html) - July 2014, we moved in. The house was so retro it was unreal, there were floral carpets, shiny wallpaper, polystyrene ceiling, and an old back boiler; the list goes on. We couldn't believe we owned this house, it was almost everything I had ever wanted from a house and it felt like such an achievement
- [Our New Skip (On Wheels!)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/07/our-new-skip-on-wheels.html) - If you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll know we're all about money saving. We do almost every aspect of our home renovation ourselves and we find new and inventive ways to renovate our home on the cheap. We don't have huge incomes and we do have to manage money on an almost
- [A Rather Large Lighting Haul](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/07/a-rather-large-lighting-haul.html) - My name's Kerry and I have an obsession with fairy lights. Ever since purchasing some net fairy lights for the garden of our last house, I can't help but want twinkling gorgeous fairy lights everywhere. Indoors, outdoors, if I had it my way it would constantly look like Christmas in this house. Living in a
- [Removing an Old Back Boiler](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/07/removing-old-back-boiler.html) - One of the things we were most excited about when we purchased this house was having central heating! We'd spent three years living with single glazed windows and terrible electric storage heaters (which we simply couldn't afford to run!). When we had seen 'Part Central Heated' and 'Double Glazed' listed on the specs for this
- [5 Great Brands for Log Burners on a Budget](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/08/5-great-brands-for-log-burners-on-budget.html) - If there's one thing we know lots about, it's about being on a budget. We've spent the last five years renovating on a budget and the last five years without any central heating because of it. The cost of fitting a whole new gas central heating system just doesn't fit into our budgets. We've become
- [Winter Giveaway with CastFireplaces.co.uk!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/11/winter-giveaway-with-castfireplacescouk.html) - At this time of year, my Instagram feed turns from beautiful flowers, blue skies and autumnal leaves to fire, log burners, fireplaces, and a few pesky broken boilers (always the way!) yep - it's almost winter. We may not have central heating, but we do have for the first time this year(!!!) our newly
- [{DIY} Oriental Inspired Garden Bed with Built-In Seat](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/08/diy-oriental-inspired-garden-bed-with.html) - One of the reasons I love our garden so much is that I can trial ideas and DIYs without the fear of it going wrong (who cares, it's outdoors!) and I can literally put my skills to the test, which is exactly what I've done with this little DIY tutorial. Building another raised bed wasn't
- [Summer Blues + A Giveaway!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/08/summer-blues-giveaway.html) - Have you got the 'Summer is Ending!' blues? Because I totally have. The nights are getting darker earlier, the temperatures are dropping and we're just weeks away from welcoming a new month that we associate with the beginning of leaves falling off the trees. Where the heck did summer go? It was over so fast!
- [Insulating Walls With... Cake?](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/08/insulating-walls-with-cake.html) - OK, so it's not quite cake - but it certainly looks like it, right? When we were planning the walls to be knocked through into the kitchen, a number of tradespeople suggested to us that we spent a little extra cash insulating some of our walls. Houses are typically built with two-brick thick walls and
- [Getting the Chimney Log Burner Ready!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/09/getting-chimney-log-burner-ready.html) - If you've been following the blog for a while, you'll know we've been making progress in the dining room towards fitting a log burner! I'm beyond excited, not just because log burners are damn cool, but because this will be the first time we'll have a proper way of making heat in this house. So
- [What's New in the Garden?](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/09/whats-new-in-garden.html) - The garden was the first space we began renovating in this house just over two years ago. Originally it was one giant flower bed that had been unkept for some time and had become completely wild. It resembled something of a jungle with weeds taller than me. The dogs would get well and truly lost
- [{DIY} Table with a Feature Tiled Base & Concrete Top](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/09/diy-table-with-feature-tiled-base.html) - Tiles. We use them in bathrooms and we use them on floors. But have you ever used them as part of a piece of furniture? Nope, me neither. But when you think about it, it's perfect! They're so hardwearing, they can make a real feature or statement in a room and many are even waterproof
- [Kitchen Update: Cracked Walls & Plasterboard](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/09/kitchen-update-cracked-walls.html) - So you might have been wondering what's happened with our kitchen renovation. My last proper post on the renovation was some months back now, talking about removing the load bearing wall. We waited for what felt like an eternity for that to happen - so you'd have thought I would have updated you with heaps
- [Painting the Hearth | Victorian Fireplace Reveal](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/09/painting-hearth-victorian-fireplace.html) - Some months ago I purchased a Victorian Fireplace for the smallest bedroom off eBay. It needed some restoring which I finished a while back, but since then it's just been sat in the bedroom against the wall, unattached, collecting dust. The reason I hadn't gotten around to fitting the fireplace was because I couldn't decide
- [The Log Burner Installation Reveal!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/09/the-log-burner-installation-reveal.html) - Five years we've lived without heating. Five years with one single electric radiator moving from room to room with us as we move around the house. I kid you not. Central heating is something that's completely alien to us. Throughout the two houses we've owned - we've never had it. Why, you ask? Because we
- [The Roof has a Window!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/09/roofwindowinstallation.html) - One of the biggest negatives about our kitchen (I say that word very loosely - we currently have no cabinets, flooring, or anything that resembles a kitchen - but you get what I mean...) is that it doesn't have any windows to the outside, thanks to a conservatory/lean-to stuck at the side. Our new french
- [Boarding Over the Kitchen Ceiling!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/10/boarding-over-kitchen-ceiling.html) - So you've seen our new kitchen walls and you've also seen our recent roof addition, the Velux window (still LOVE IT!). Today I'm sharing our new ceiling! It's not that exciting, I admit. But when you're renovating, every small step towards the end makes a huge impact to the room and the tunnel gets shorter
- [12 Ways to Survive Winter Without Central Heating](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/10/12-ways-to-survive-winter-without.html) - If you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll know we've had absolutely zero form of heating in this house for the last two winters. When we viewed this house (and read the selling form) we were overjoyed that it had a boiler and radiators - our previous home had zilch, just old electric
- [All I Want for Christmas... Is a Kitchen](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/10/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-kitchen.html) - I hope you don't mind a slightly more chatty post for today - or the topic of Christmas either. I know it's probably (definitely) too soon, but when Christmas catalogues are being launched and shelves are being appropriately stacked with tree decorations and crackers, well, if you can't hide from it - you may as
- [{DIY} Rustic Garden Screen](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/10/diy-rustic-garden-screen.html) - If you've been reading the blog for a while, you'll know that our garden lacks privacy somewhat. We don't have full height fences, but a half height wall with a kind of trellis on the top. It means is that our garden is very exposed to both our neighbours gardens and a road too. We've
- [Alternative Logs for Wood Burners](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/11/alternative-logs-for-wood-burners.html) - A few months back we took the plunge into finally purchasing a wood burner and since then we've been enjoying many nights snuggled by the fire, enjoying it's glorious heat. And if you didn't already know - this is a pretty huge deal for us, after having spent the last six years (and more to
- [Our Not-So Festive Home](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/12/our-not-so-festive-home.html) - December is such a busy month for us. We work in retail, so there really is zero holiday season for us. Instead our hours increase, workload increases and we spend December feeling more stressed than any other month of the year. This year I was absolutely adamant at spending Christmas alone with one another (we
- [What we Achieved in 2016 | 12 Months of Renovations](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/12/what-we-achieved-in-2016-12-months-of.html) - 2016 was a total roller-coaster; we've began making some of the biggest changes to our home this year and it's definitely made a memorable year - although not entirely all for good reasons. We started the year gearing up for a huge change to the layout of our home, removing a bathroom, knocking down two
- [2016 Renovation Cost Round-Up](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/12/2016-renovation-cost-round-up.html) - Ahh it's that time of year again, when I look back on our yearly renovation spending and cringe. Renovating a home is not a cheap process and despite trying to do everything "on the cheap" things still manage to add up to horrific numbers. And I know we've spent A LOT of money this year because
- [Home Reno: What We Have Planned For 2017](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/01/home-reno-what-we-have-planned-for-2017.html) - Oh.My.Goodness I cannot believe we have reached the end of the year. It doesn't feel like that long ago since I was writing this post for the last year! Needless to say, it's been one hell of a year (erm, Brexit, Trump, WTF?). We've spent 9+ months without a kitchen AND STILL COUNTING and yes,
- [Chasing Cables the Easy Way](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/01/chasing-cables-easy-way.html) - Chasing cables - what a feaking nightmare. Have you ever had to do this by hand yourself? The drilling, the chiselling, the dust, the arm ache, oh it's a real pain in the butt. All for the sake of hidden cables in a wall. Don't get me wrong - it's totally worth it.. Surface trunking
- [DIY Electric Underfloor Heating](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/01/diy-electric-underfloor-heating.html) - Electric underfloor heating, oh the wonders! I've always dreamed of being able to have heated floors, such a luxury(!) and one that I thought would cost hundreds of pounds. But with some clever bargain hunting and doing-it-yourself, it doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. If you don't already know (I've only mentioned
- [Valentines Chalkboard Art with Chalkola](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/02/valentines-chalkboard-art-with-chalkola.html) - Whilst we don't really celebrate Valentines, I can't help but lust over beautiful themed interiors, especially those on Instagram - where I spend most of my free time scrolling through squares and squares of homes I only wished I owned. If you're not on Instagram yet, where have you been?! It's quickly becoming the new
- [DIY: Venting a Cooker Hood](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/02/diy-venting-cooker-hood.html) - Older kitchens and bathrooms never have extractor fans. I don't know why this is - I presume they just didn't exist back in the day? But you'll never find them. For modern day living; lengthy showers and multiple pans steaming away - not having one is pretty bad. You'll end up with all kinds of
- [Installing Downlights & Feature Lighting!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/02/installing-downlights-feature-lighting.html) - After we'd finished over-boarding the kitchen ceiling, we could then begin to think about lighting. I'd always imagined having two single pendants in this room - the same as it had been before (one where the old kitchen had been and one where it'd been the old shower room) but after we'd boarded the ceiling,
- [Visiting the DIY-Kitchens Showroom (and Buying a Kitchen!)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/02/visiting-diy-kitchens-showroom-and_17.html) - I couldn't contain my excitement and gave it all away in the title - but yes, we have finally bought a kitchen! A whole year without one and it's about freaking time - right? I have a backlog of blog posts I've been trying to get through, but to this current date (20th February) we are still
- [Front-of-House Spring Makeover](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/03/front-of-house-spring-makeover.html) - With Spring on the horizon, I'm more excited than ever to finally begin transforming the front of our house. The only thing we've changed since moving in over 2 and a half years ago(!!) is removing some grab bars either side of the front door which had been there to assist the elderly previous owner.
- [6 Ways to Bring More Light into the Home](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/03/ways-to-bring-more-light-into-home.html) - There's no better home than one that's filled with heaps of natural light. Let's face it, no one really wants to live in something so dark and depressing as a prison cell. Natural light boosts positivity, makes you feel more awake and generally it just has an overall good effect on us. But, homes aren't
- [New Architrave & A Skinny French Door!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/03/new-architrave-skinny-french-door.html) - We're so fortunate to have the original doors (albeit it with some of them boarded up!) and architrave throughout almost all of the house. But, the exclusion is our kitchen. The room itself is an addition to the house, although a very very very old one and possibly still even Victorian. There's evidence of its
- [Enviromate: How to Reduce Your DIY & Renovation Waste](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/03/enviromate-how-to-reduce-your-diy.html) - During a renovation project, we often have a tendency to throw away absolutely everything. From skirting boards to flooring to bathtubs, you name it - it all goes into a skip. Even if it's in perfectly good condition. Where does all this stuff go? Through a costly process of going through said waste, recycling anything
- [10 Home and Garden Hacks for DIY this Spring!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/03/10-home-and-garden-hacks-for-diy-this.html) - I don't know about you, but there's just something about Spring that always makes me feel more productive and want to whip out my paint brushes, gardening tools and even cleaning products in a kick of energy to just get stuff done! But time is precious as they say, and money doesn't grow on trees,
- [Save Money & Insulate! | What We've Done & Our Future Plans](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/03/save-money-insulate-what-weve-done-our.html) - I'm so glad to see the back of Winter and welcome spring - owning an old home certainly brings about its challenges during the winter period and keeping it warm and toasty is often easier said than done. Older homes weren't exactly designed with modern day insulating regulations, in fact - they weren't really designed
- [March - What a Month!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/04/march-what-month.html) - I simply cannot believe we are already in April. Say what? Seriously - where is the year going? How can we be already 1/4 of the way through? I am however eternally thankful for the miserable British winter to go away and sunnier spring days arrive. We've had some absolute fab ones so far and
- [Flymo's Mighti-Mo 300 Li Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/04/flymos-mighti-mo-300-li-review.html) - Spring, Spring, Spring! Have I mentioned that word enough on the blog lately? I'm so bloody thankful Spring is here! For me, it means one main thing - gardening. I absolutely love gardening, more than I love painting walls (which if you don't know, is a freaking lot!). I'm not going to lie - I'm
- [Getting Plastered, DIY-Style](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/04/getting-plastered-diy-style.html) - Last year Grant went on a DIY-plastering course to learn all about how to plaster, DIY-style. With small budgets and trying to do everything ourselves, we knew this was an area that was vital we did ourselves to save some cash. That being said, plastering is still a skill and we wanted to get it
- [A Cheaters Way to Plastering a Ceiling](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/05/a-cheaters-way-to-plastering-ceiling.html) - In my last renovation update post, I shared our DIY plastering. But one thing we didn't plaster (did you catch it?) was the ceiling. Why? Well, because after my not-so-great attempt at the bathroom ceiling and some of Grants imperfect walls (although once painted looked fine!), we were somewhat worried. Unlike walls, there's something about
- [Free Tickets to the Homebuilding & Renovating Show!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/06/free-tickets-to-homebuilding-renovating-show.html) - So, you're renovating - pinning 100 images a day, searching endless hashtags on Instagram #ihavethisthingwithfloors and googling the most unlikely of questions you thought you would ever be asking, "22mm copper pipe, or 15mm copper pipe?". It's fun, exciting, daunting and oh-so bloody stressful. Whether you're taking on a DIY renovation, a whole new-build project,
- [Home Renovating | 3 Years Update!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/07/home-renovating-3-years-update.html) - Well I've had a mammoth break from blogging, a lot has happened and at the same time, not so much has happened. The kitchen is *almost* finished, we took two weeks off and went travelling around Sri Lanka and we've now hit our three year mark in this house. Which means, three years of renovating!
- [Laying a Limestone Floor on a Budget](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/07/laying-limestone-floor-on-budget.html) - You've probably seen a glimpse of our new tiles over the last few posts, because well, our kitchen renovation has been done in a kind of sporadic order, going back and forth between jobs like crazy. It's a job we started back in the late summer of last year (September, if I remember correctly!) and
- [Repairing Rotten Joist Ends](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/08/diy-repairing-rotten-joist-ends.html) - *Not a tutorial, just info on what we did. Please always get advice before carrying out your own building work* Okay so, mega confession. One of the reasons I stopped blogging for so long was because I managed to delete ALL the renovation photos off my phone from January till about April. That included some
- [Painting & Prepping for the New Kitchen](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/08/painting-prepping-for-new-kitchen.html) - Walls plastered, floors tiled, electrics complete, new gas line in place - more than 12 months from the start of our kitchen renovation and we're finally at the painting stage, so close to a finished kitchen!! Getting to the painting stage is always the most exciting part of a renovation, you can almost see the
- [Pure Pet Food Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/08/pure-pet-food-review.html) - There are so many different brands of dog food on the market; dried food, wet food, tinned food, sachets food, mixers, don't worry I won't go on. But essentially, despite the many many choices, they're all pretty much the same. Some are more processed than others, some have more ingredients than others and some just
- [Planning Our Galley Kitchen](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/08/planning-our-galley-kitchen.html) - Our kitchen renovation has been one long ass journey, with many ups and downs, frustrations and really it's put a lot of our life on hold. But having a plan from the get-go was something that really helped us to focus on the job and keep going. It was also essential for knowing where to
- [Not Another Kitchen Renovation?](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/08/not-another-kitchen-renovation.html) - So we've barely finished our own kitchen renovation (reveal and final details coming soon!) and we're already beginning another. I won't lie - I'm not exactly jumping for joy at the prospect of doing another kitchen. BUT, I do love the planning and designing aspect of a renovation, so it is getting me kinda excited.
- [The 'Other' House: A New French Door!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/08/the-other-house-new-french-door.html) - This is quick little post sharing some updates on Grants parent house, which I talked about in my last blog post (read here), how we're starting yet another (slow) kitchen renovation! This time, we've phased it into numbers and phase 1 was to replace the old dodgy sliding door. This door actually used to open
- [3D Dishwashing?! | Hotpoint Dishwasher Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/09/3d-dishwashing-hotpoint-dishwasher.html) - How amazing are dishwashers? I grew up at a time (hello 90s!) where dishwashers weren't an everyday household item. Everyone had washing machines but dishwashers were still a kind of luxury item. A non-essential. Fast-forward 20 odd years and to many households now, they're an essential. With both half of a couple working full-time, it's
- [The 'Other' House: A New Boiler & Costs!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/09/a-new-boiler-costs.html) - Renovations are well under-way at Grants parents house and I'm pleased to say phase 1 and 2 are complete! If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out this post. But, in short the old floor standing boiler has now gone, the dodgy non-locking sliding door is also gone and in their place, a
- [Choosing & Fitting Kitchen Handles](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/09/choosing-fitting-kitchen-handles.html) - I thought the hard decisions were done when we picked out our kitchen, turns out of course, I was totally wrong. Kitchen handles. Too big, too small, questionable quality, too expensive, sticks out too much - it goes on. And I mean THAT was after we'd decided on the type of metal/finish as well. Chrome,
- [[DIY] Painting A Patterned Floor](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/09/diy-painting-patterned-floor.html) - Jumping over to a new room, we're kick-starting the conservatory renovation back up! You might remember last year we started doing some work in this room before the kitchen reno really took off - well a whole year later and one kitchen reno out of the way, we're back to it! And this time, we're
- [5 Changes That Have Made The Biggest Difference To Our Home](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/09/5-changes-that-have-made-biggest.html) - Renovating isn't just about putting your own stamp on a property - it's a lot about updating it to meet modern standards and creating a home that works for you. We've been living in this house for 3 years now and we've done plenty of renovating - so I thought I'd share 5 changes we've
- [The Electric Heating Company: EcoSave Electric Radiator Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/10/the-electric-heating-company-ecosave-review.html) - If you're a long-time reader around here, you'll know our house doesn't have any form of central heating. The property used to have an old back boiler in the chimney, which we've since removed and replaced with a log burner - which is absolutely FAB - but other than the room the log burner is
- [{DIY} Fitting a Karndean Loose Lay Floor](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/10/diy-fitting-karndean-loose-lay-floor.html) - 'Karndean'; the word I've heard a lot around the internet lately - everyone's talking about it. I'd heard of Karndean before I even knew what the hell it was (flooring!), what it looked like, or what it felt like. So when I was offered the chance to give a test, well obviously I was like
- [First Time DIYers: The Essential Tools](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/10/first-time-diyers-essential-tools.html) - So I've thought for a while about making some posts on our tools; what we have, what we wish we had, what I recommend and what I don't. Over the last six years, we've gone from owning absolutely nothing to now having a whole wardrobe of stuff. So I'm going to do a little series
- [Victorian Floorboard Restoration with Osmo Oil Polyx Raw](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/11/floorboard-restoration-with-osmo-oil.html) - I haven't shared any progress of the dining room for months now. Truth be told, we've done loads - but it's also been a room that's been piled high with storage for a very very long time. It's a constant battle; renovating, cleaning and finding homes for the bazillion bits of materials we have leftover.
- [Kitchen Reveal - So Far!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/12/kitchen-reveal-graphite-kitchen.html) - I've been catching up with blog posts over the last few months and shown you a fair bit of our new kitchen, but I thought I'd do a quick 'reveal' post, sharing appliances, where everything is from and how the room looks as a whole. It's not quite finished just yet; we have shelves to
- [Win! A Stove Fan Worth £45](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/12/win-stove-fan-worth-45.html) - It would seem winter is well and truly upon us now! With snow storms throughout the UK over the last week (although it seems our town missed out on that) and temperatures going into the minuses, needless to say our log burner has been doing some serious overtime. In fact, I just had to put
- [The Chalk Paint That's Raising Money For Oxfam](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/12/lem-lem-chalk-paint.html) - There are so many different chalk paints on the market nowadays, but the one everyone knows about is Annie Sloan. She was the creator of the original Chalk Paint - the paint that requires no sanding, no prep-work and can literally transform furniture within minutes. It's the perfect way to update those tired pieces of furniture and a great way
- [Going DARK In The Dining Room](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/12/going-dark-in-dining-room.html) - I've showed you our new kitchen, but I haven't yet shown you our new dining room and it's certainly changed quite a bit since I last showed it off properly. It's had parts of it re-plastered, a whole new paint job, the floor's been sanded back, we've uncovered some gorgeous victorian cupboard doors and we
- [Wishing You A Very Merry Christmas!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/12/christmas-in-a-renovation.html) - Christmas is such a strange but awesome time of year. Strange because it's the only month where spending heaps and heaps of cash is considered totally normal and acceptable. And awesome because there's such a cheery atmosphere everywhere - with carollers on the streets, gatherings and jolly (if a tad annoying) upbeat songs. Everyone's a
- [12 Months of Renovations | What We Achieved in 2017](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/12/12-months-of-renovations-what-we.html) - I've done one of these posts for the last few years - a 'looking back' on the year behind us and what we've achieved within the home and our renovations. This year we haven't tackled a great amount of stuff, but the things we have done has seriously improved the house and how we use
- [2017 Renovation Total Spend](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2017/12/2017-renovation-total-spend.html) - I seriously uuhhmmed and ahhhed about whether or not I wanted to do another costing post this year. Partly because I didn't keep a track of finances in the same way, I did before (aka - it's all been a bit messy!) and partly because I feel like we've somehow overspent on the DIY considering
- [Renovations for 2018: What We Have Planned](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/01/renovation-goals-for-2018.html) - I can't quite believe it's 2018. I feel like I say this every year - but how does a whole year go by so fast?! With a new year, comes new goals - and every year I like to lay out a proper plan to what we'd like to achieve with our renovation. It doesn't
- [The Yellow Door: A Super Quick Transformation!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/01/a-yellow-front-door.html) - After giving our inner porch a lick of paint on the walls and fitting some Karndean Loose Lay flooring, I felt the front door was crying out for a little bit of attention too. I like to refer to this door as the "not forever door" as quite frankly, I hate it and with enough
- [Colour Matching with Valspar Paint](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/01/colour-matching-with-valspar-paint.html) - So I'm kickstarting 2018 by finishing some of those DIY jobs that are half-done - you know, when you start something all excitedly and then run out of steam and it just gets left? For an eternity. Yeah, those kinds of DIYs. We started renovating the Conservatory way back in 2016 by installing a new roof,
- [10 Ways to Save (and make!) Money on a Home Renovation](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/01/how-to-save-and-make-money-on-home.html) - It's January. The month where we're all paying off those credit cards from Christmas and wishing we hadn't spent so much on food when half of it ended up as waste. Bank accounts are empty and for one reason or another, money is always tight in January. When renovating you can't exactly commit to "no
- [How to Make a Feature of the Inside of a Cupboard!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/01/a-very-yellow-cupboard-makeover.html) - Just before Christmas, I shared the reveal of our new dining room - it still had some finishing and styling left to do, but by the most part, it was done. Within that post, I also shared the unveiling of our gorgeous Victorian cupboard doors which had been locked away behind a giant white glossy
- [How to Use An Old Ladder For Wall Decoration and Displaying Art](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/01/diy-wall-ladder-art.html) - One thing our house is seriously lacking in is decoration. And by that, I mean walls that aren't completely bare or rooms that aren't sparsely filled with oddly placed furniture. None of our rooms has that cosy homely decorated feel to them. Renovating is one thing, but then turning a room into comfortable well-furnished, well-decorated
- [How to Build Pallet Seating With Hidden Storage](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/02/diy-pallet-bench-with-hidden-storage.html) - Way back when I started planning the conservatory I decided we needed another pallet seating area in our life. Yep, you may remember the pallet seating I built in the garden way back in 2015 (jeez has it really been that long?!) well this time I'm building something a bit different, but at the same
- [Living Room Renovations Begin!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/02/living-room-renovations-begin.html) - New year, new room! Well, sorta. I mean technically speaking, we're already a month into 2018 so I'm not too sure we can still this part of the "new year" timings... BUT, we are now finally starting a new room renovation for 2018! And at long last, it's the living room that we're tackling next.
- [Tips for Easy Wallpaper Removal](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/02/tips-for-easy-wallpaper-removal.html) - If you didn't catch my last blog post - then the breaking news of the blog the week, is that we've finally started our living room renovation. Yep, almost four years in - and it's begun. Luckily this room is in fairly good shape so doesn't require too much work - it's just quite dated;
- [Smart Lighting | WiZ Light Bulb Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/02/smart-lighting-wiz-light-bulb-review.html) - I wrote a post a while back about how to make your home smarter which included all the stuff we have within our home, as well as some stuff we don't have. Smart lighting was on there, something we didn't have and something I've never been *too* sure about. As much as I love the
- [A Quick Guide to Repairing Old Walls](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/02/a-quick-guide-to-repairing-old-walls.html) - When it comes to renovating, sometimes there's this idea that everything needs to be ripped out and replaced with new; whether that's the plaster on the walls, the skirting boards or even the boiler. But renovating doesn't have to mean replacing everything for new and you can, in fact, restore many areas of the home
- [Uncovering a Victorian Chimney Arch](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/03/uncovering-victorian-chimney-arch.html) - One of the most hideous features of our living (aside from that floral carpet!) was the 70s style gas fireplace. It just kills the period features in the room. The cornicing, the panelling around the window; all those gorgeous original features, dominated by one giant ugly fireplace. Luckily, we had the gas to it disconnected
- [A Chalkboard Calendar Wall Sticker | WallBoss Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/03/a-chalkboard-calendar-wall-sticker.html) - If you've been following our Conservatory Renovation, you'll have seen this room transform from an indoor shed (not literally) to a relaxing, warmer (non-leaky!) space. I've built some DIY seating, I've painted the floor in a jazzy geometric pattern but it's still looking a little empty shall we say. I have lots of plans for
- [Living Room Makeover with Little Greene (And A Guide to Hanging Wallpaper)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/03/living-room-makeover-with-little-greene.html) - I've been busying myself over the last few weeks with our living room renovation - getting the walls prepped, the ceiling pepped, opening up the fireplace, sanding floorboards (post on that coming soon!) and finally - we're at the painting and decorating stage. I think this is probably the quickest makeover I've ever done -
- [Bioethanol Fires: An Alternative to Wood-Burning Stoves](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/03/bioethanol-wood-burner-review.html) - You guys know how much I love my wood burning stove in the dining room. It's aaaaaa-mazing. However, it was bloody darn expensive. We're talking four figures. There's the cost of the stove, the cost of the flue, the cost of all the little bits like a register plate and chimney cowl and then there's
- [Traditional Hand-Crafted House Signs by Village Green](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/03/traditional-handcrafted-house-signs-village-green.html) - This time last year, I did quite a full 'front of house makeover'. I painted the door and I got up on a very high ladder and painted around the windows too. The house went from hugely discoloured red to clean white with a punchy dark blue door. But one thing I failed to update
- [Somfy Electric Blind Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/04/somfy-electric-blind-review.html) - I haven't done a living room update in quite a while; truth be told, we've had to put it on hold a little bit, due to a few different reasons. BUT, I'm back sharing a small update today - a new fancy electronic window blind! Yep, it's a blind that works totally on its own,
- [Turning a Cupboard Into a Pantry](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/05/turning-cupboard-into-pantry-diy.html) - It's been a while since I properly updated the blog on some of our DIY and renovations - and that's because we've been working away from our home, in another home. Yep, we're doing bits and bobs for someone else's renovation; Grant's parents renovation. Actually, I'm not sure I can call it a renovation just yet,
- [DIY How To Build Decking With Scaffold Boards](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/07/how-to-build-decking-with-scaffold-boards-diy.html) - After months and months, I'm finally sharing our DIY Scaffold Board Decking. Yep, it's been a while and I've had quite a few questions about when this post was coming - sorry, I've been such a bad blogger recently! We actually started building this at the end of summer last year (yikes!) and finished it up
- [DIY How to Create a Slat Fence with Pallet Wood](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/07/diy-slat-fence-with-pallet-wood.html) - 3 years ago I built a raised bed in the garden against the low-level brick wall between us and our neighbour. I built it with the intention of growing some climbing plants that would block out the view of the next-doors driveway (and the adjoining road) and give us a bit more privacy. Well, that didn't
- [Laying Gravel In the Garden](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/07/laying-gravel-in-garden.html) - If you've followed me for a while, you'll know I've never had much desire for gravel in the garden. Don't get me wrong - I don't hate gravel and there's certainly a time and place for it, but after having an entire yard full of gravel in the old house (full garden tour here), I
- [How to Fit a Rebated Door Latch on an Internal French Door](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/09/how-to-fit-rebated-door-latch-on.html) - Do you remember almost two years ago we bought a pair of secondhand glazed doors for our conservatory and fitted them? Two years ago. Well, we never got round to fitting any door handles. I know, it's shocking. Truth be told, the handles I had bought turned out to be way too big for the door.
- [4 Years On - Our Home Reno Update](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/07/4-years-on-our-home-reno-update.html) - I can't believe we've been living in this house for four years already! It seems absolute madness and in many ways makes me realise how far we haven't come within our home renovating journey. I mean, four years and we're barely halfway through?! But I guess that's the reality of DIY renovating and renovating on
- [The Blog Has Been Nominated for an Award!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/08/diy-blogger-amara-award-2018.html) - This is a quick post today, mainly to say thanks for whoever nominated me and secondly I'm just sharing a link if you want to vote. I started this blog almost five years ago now and I mainly started it because I wanted somewhere to document our old home in all its finished fully-renovated glory
- [VonHaus Rose Gold Cordless Screwdriver Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/08/vonhaus-rose-gold-cordless-screwdriver-review.html) - Being a DIYer means I have a fairly large amount of tools, but - I don't any tools quite as stylish as this one! VonHaus have recently just launched a whole collection of new rose gold tools, targetted at your average DIYer and Upcycler who want their tools to look as good as their projects. 'Cause
- [7 Creatively Awesome Staircases Ideas!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/08/7-creatively-awesome-staircases-ideas.html) - If you follow me on Pinterest, you may have seen I've been pinning a ton of attic conversion ideas over the last month. We might still be a long way from beginning any work up in our attic - but a girl can dream right?! Anyway, in my mad month of pinning, I came across
- [Creating an Indoor Garden Room: Conservatory Reveal](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/09/creating-indoor-garden-room.html) - Our conservatory is a bit of a marmite room. It's a very old conservatory (built in the 80s) that heats up to about 1000degrees in summer and then freezes to about -1000degrees in winter. I'm exaggerating, but you get what I'm trying to say - it's not a perfectly formed extension. It's what typical 80s
- [How Much Does It Cost To Install A Wood Burning Stove?](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/09/how-much-does-it-cost-to-install-wood-burner.html) - It's that time of year again; where we're all swapping out the summer duvets for winter ones, blowing the dust off those old thick woolly jumpers and beginning to set timers for our heating to automatically come on at the crack of dawn. (Well, if you have central heating that is - we actually don't!)
- [DIY Geometric Ceiling Light (Icosahedron)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/10/diy-geometric-ceiling-light-icosahedron.html) - There are so many parts of our home that are finished, but unfinished. Like the random piece of skirting board in the kitchen that hasn't been attached, the door that's lived without a handle for two years, the bits of filler on the walls I never sanded and repainted, oh and the two semi-attached bulbs
- [DIY Bike Shed with Log Store](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/11/diy-how-to-build-a-bike-shed-log-store.html) - For the last four years, we've had one small storage issue - where should the bikes live? For a while, they lived in the hallway, then in the bedroom and then they just hung out in the garden like a lost sock. Not only was it cluttering up my otherwise (semi-)organised garden, it wasn't so
- [Decorating the Christmas Tree and Our Yearly Christmas Traditions](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/12/christmas-with-christmas-tree-world.html) - This is the first time in four years that our house has felt finished enough to properly decorate for Christmas. Don't get me wrong, the house is FAR from finished and half of it is still very much in chaos, but we have more semi-finished rooms than we've ever had. And those rooms actually feel
- [12 Months of Renovations | What We Achieved in 2018](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2018/12/12-months-of-renovations-2018.html) - It's that time of year when we look back over the last 12 months and all that we've achieved in the house, renovation-wise. I do one of these posts every year, so if you're interested in seeing our home-reno journey so far, then do check out the following years below: Renovations in 2015 Renovations in
- [What We Have Planned for 2019!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/01/what-we-have-planned-for-2019-renovations.html) - 2018 was pretty easy-going in terms of home renovating. We did a fair bit of work, don't get me wrong, but it was all casual with no single room being the focus of the year and no major destruction unfolded. Compared to 2016 and 2017 which included living without a kitchen for 18-months, the last
- [How to Build a Farmhouse Table with a Pallet Wood Herringbone Top!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/01/how-to-build-farmhouse-table-with-pallet-wood.html) - *This is a Sponsored Post in Collaboration with Ronseal. Back in the winter of 2017, I mentioned how I really wanted to build my own dining table in the next 12 months. Why? Not just because I like taking on more work, but because I had a vision of a table in my mind that
- [Another House, Another Reno - A Few Updates...](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/01/another-house-another-renovation.html) - No, I haven't won the lottery and bagged myself a holiday home by the sea (although I wish I had!), I'm of course referring to Grants parents house, where we've been working and DIYing recently. If you haven't been keeping up with progress over on Instagram, do come and join me! I'm much quicker at
- [Ring Battery Security Cam Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/03/ring-battery-security-cam-review.html) - Security cameras. I always thought they were a bit silly. I mean, I know dated old fashioned house alarms are kinda irrelevant nowadays anyway (does anyone even bat an eyelid at sirens blearing down the street?) but as for CCTV, I just felt like it was basically telling the world you have stuff worth stealing. BUT,
- [Yale Smart Home Alarm Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/05/yale-smart-home-alarm-review.html) - *This is a Sponsored Post with products that I've been sent to review. We've gone security mad here at Kezzabeth HQ! First, we bought a security camera, then we replaced a window which had major security faults (details coming soon!) and now I'm umming and ahh-ing about adding more security features too - like a
- [How to DIY Install a Sash Window | Colin's Sash Windows Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/05/how-to-diy-install-sash-window.html) - *Disclaimer: I received a discount on this window in return for sharing a blog post on its installation. I am sooooo excited to share this post because having a sash window was something we thought would just always be a dream. (Yes, I really am that excited by a window!) Our house is such a
- [7 Tips for Renovating Traditional Period Properties](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/07/7-tips-for-renovating-period-homes.html) - *This is a sponsored (paid) Post in Collaboration with Period Mouldings Renovating a house can be a total minefield, with so many different things to consider. There are practical issues, like pipework and plumbing, and then there are design decisions and trying to figure out what's the best way to make use of your space.
- [DIY How to Build A House-Shaped Shelving Unit](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/07/diy-how-to-build-house-shaped-shelving.html) - *This is a sponsored (paid) DIY in collaboration and supported by Bosch Home & Garden. Post may also contain affiliate links. I'm back with another DIY (yes, it's been a while!) and this one is in collaboration and supported by Bosch Home & Garden as an adaptation of a DIY from their 'All About DIY'
- [Our 5 Year House Anniversary (+ Some Before and Afters!)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/07/our-renovation-5-year-update.html) - As I write this, today will be our fifth year living and renovating in this house. Five whole years. How bonkers is that?! I have no clue where the time has gone, but it's gone fast. I moved in as a 23-year old feeling ridiculously excited and proud of our new home and I'm now
- [Our Renovation Journey: Q&A](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/07/our-renovation-journey-question-answers.html) - Yesterday I shared some before and after shots of our 5 year house anniversary and 5 whole years of renovating! It's both flown by and been a bit of a drag, but here we are, five whole years later - still renovating, still blogging. Not many changes eh? I asked on Instagram if you guys
- [How to Install Fence Posts Using Concrete Bolts](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/08/how-to-install-fence-posts-using-concrete-bolts.html) - Over the last week, we've been finishing off our DIY pallet slat fencing. This was a job we started last year but ran out of pallets - typical! We've replaced two fence posts for this job, using only concrete/masonry bolts this time - which made the job s a lot easier. So I thought I'd make
- [DIY How to Build a Pergola Over a Gate](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/08/diy-how-to-build-pergola-over-gate.html) - Pergola, pagoda? Does it confuse anyone else? I feel like I've travelled enough so it *shouldn't* confuse me, but you know what, it does. Today's DIY is a pretty simple one actually. Something that I thought would be more complicated but turned out to be one of my simplest DIYs. I've taken all the shortcuts
- [How to Keep House Plants Watered When You're Away](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/08/how-to-keep-house-plants-watered-when-away.html) - I have been meaning to write this post for the last two years, but somehow time always escapes me! As you may (or may not) know, we tend to go away every Spring/Summer for almost three whole weeks - that's three weeks our plant babies have to live without us watering them daily. And yet,
- [How to Get Free Paint via the Community Repaint Project](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/free-paint-via-community-repaint.html) - I don't know whether this is common knowledge or not - but it was new news to me, so I thought I'd do a blog post on it. What am I talking about? The Community RePaint Scheme. This was introduced to me from someone I work with and I have no idea how I didn't
- [Which Dust Mask for Which Job?](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/which-dust-mask-for-which-job.html) - One of the first jobs I ever required a dust mask for was removing some Lead Paint, and boy was I confused about dust masks! They're not clearly labelled for beginners or DIYers and unless you do heaps of research beforehand, you could easily end up picking up the wrong mask for the job!I'm no
- [7 Ways to Prepare Your Home This Winter](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/11/7-ways-to-prepare-your-home-this-winter.html) - Whilst we're all gearing up towards the festive season, it's important to remember that our homes become more vulnerable during the winter period - both to damage, heat loss and general aspects of safety. Each year, it's a good idea to make a few checks before the serious cold weather sets in to prevent any
- [Tile Trends for 2016](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/tile-trends-for-2016.html) - With the new year behind us, we've began planning and prepping our home for its next year of huge renovations. If you've been following my blog for some time now, you'll know that we've been tackling our home improvements room by room. Whilst this is great for minimising dust and allows us to live freely
- [How to Fill Large Holes in Floorboards](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/how-to-fill-large-holes-in-floorboards.html) - When we moved the plumbing around in the bathroom, we ended up leaving sizeable holes in the floorboards from the previous pipework. These holes weren't going to be hidden by bathroom furniture, so they stuck out like an ugly missing piece.I'd had previous experience filling holes in our last house and found this tried and
- [Home Renovation: One Year On...](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/home-renovation-one-year-on.html) - I cannot believe it has been a year already! Seriously, how? I'm somewhat ashamed to admit we haven't exactly got far on the house. I had anticipated we would be much further on by the time we had reached a year... but instead we haven't even finished the first room we began. Oops.But non-the-less I'm
- [Renovations in 2015: What We've Achieved](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/12/renovations-in-2015-what-weve-achieved.html) - 2015, what a long year you've been - but still, not nearly long enough! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! With the festivities out the way, we're now looking forward to a new year - January marks our 18th month living in this old victorian renovation-project home and I'm so pleased that we
- [2015 Renovation Cost Round-Up!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/12/2015-renovation-cost-round-up.html) - I actually intended on doing a cost round-up of each room as we finish it, however we're yet to fully complete a room (although the bathroom is ridiculously close!) so I thought it might be a good idea to do a yearly cost-round up as well and what better time than the very end of
- [Garden Renovation: Pallet Fencing and Raised Beds!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/08/garden-renovation-pallet-fencing-and-raised-beds.html) - Just a little update post today as over the last few weeks I've been revamping the garden and bringing it back to life, so thought I'd share what I've been up to and where you can find blog posts on all the DIYs! The garden is my favourite place to DIY because I honestly believe
- [eFrame Review | 5 Easy DIYs for Making Your Own Art to Frame!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/08/5-easy-diys-for-making-your-own-art-to-frame.html) - *This is a sponsored (paid) DIY in collaboration with eFrame who kindly provided me with the frames for this project. Buying artwork and prints can be pretty expensive. We've all seen the fabulous gallery walls on Instagram, filled with stylish artwork and prints - but let's face it when you still have half a house
- [Learn How to DIY Plaster - A Beginner's Complete Guide!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2019/09/how-to-diy-plaster-complete-beginner-guide.html) - Plastering, it's a skill, a bloody arm-ache and something that costs hundreds, if not thousands! Money we don't all have, do we?! Well, I know I don't! When we started renovating this house five years ago, we did everything possible to avoid having to plaster. I learned how to patch and repair walls so well that they didn't need DIY plastering.
- [Winter Garden Update](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/01/winter-garden-update.html) - It's been three months since my last garden post, which mainly consisted of images showing our lovely new lawn; a vibrant green fresh, healthy and fabulous lawn. Well, winter kicked in and things have changed slightly. That same bright green lawn, now looks like this... Serious dead patches over the whole lawn! It doesn't actually show
- [Removing Lath and Plaster Ceiling, Part 1](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/11/removing-lath-and-plaster-ceiling-part-1.html) - After we made the decision to remove the ceiling in the bathroom, I made a small hole to investigate what lies beneath the plaster. I had a small suspicion that the current ceiling was the original lath and plaster type, and my suspicion was correct! Lath and plaster is a technique used prior to the
- [Dry-Soon Heated Clothes Airer Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/dry-soon-heated-clothes-airer-review.html) - Winter. It's that cold time of year where you layer up to keep warm, your heating costs go through the roof, and drying clothes becomes a pain in the butt! Unless of course you have a tumble dryer and can afford to run it, then lucky you, I'm in envy. But for most of us,
- [Not Enough Hot Water To Fill a Bath?](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/not-enough-hot-water-to-fill-bath.html) - I mentioned in a previous post how we hadn't tested out the hot water yet, or the central heating system. Why? Well, why not. We have an electric shower and thus by not using hot water elsewhere we save money. But of course, we needed to test it at some point, and at some point
- [Ceiling Cracks](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/ceiling-cracks.html) - The wallpaper on the ceiling is now down, and as I suspected, there's a fair few cracks. They're not really that bad but you could see these cracks through the wallpaper; the wallpaper wasn't ripped, but kind-of lumpy and bumpy, very obvious it wasn't a smooth flat ceiling. In fact, the entire house is like
- [Removing Wallpaper with a Steam Mop](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/removing-wallpaper-with-steam-mop.html) - This marks the beginning of not only our bathroom renovation, but also the beginning of our house-renovation altogether. I've been planning this out for some time and I actually hoped to have started this much sooner; but as always, life doesn't go to plan. Never-the-less, we've started now and I'm overjoyed by it! What was
- [Grass Growth Update, Day 16](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/grass-growth-update-day-16.html) - This is just a quick update really.. 9 days since my last grass growth post and what a difference it has made! The majority of the garden now has thick grass growth! Whilst you can still see the soil when you look straight down, every day the grass grows thicker and I don't think it'll
- [Grass Growth Update, Day 7](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/grass-growth-update-day-7.html) - It's now been an entire week since we sowed the seeds for our new lawn. The bag said it would take 7-10days to start producing a lawn - I wasn't sure whether this meant by 10 days the process would be near completion of a lawn or by 10 days you would begin to see growth appearing.
- [Sowing Seeds for Grass](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/09/sowing-seeds-for-grass.html) - Yesterday I finally got round to sowing seeds for our new lawn to come (hopefully). We've chosen a hard-wearing family grass as we have two dogs and we enjoy the odd garden party too - Ornamental grass simply wouldn't do. Any grass with rye in is best if you have a family or dogs, or
- [Spray Painting the Gnome](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/09/spray-painting-gnome.html) - I can't believe how lovely the weather has been the last couple of days! It's been a summer heaven again - I'm definitely not complaining! I took the happy weather opportunity to do a bit fun spray paint DIY. Whilst we were digging up the garden we discovered the previous owner had had a little
- [Bathroom Plans](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/09/bathroom-plans.html) - Whilst our garden takes a back-seat over winter, it's time to commence on a new DIY project inside the warm and dry (debatable) house. The first room we're going ahead with is the bathroom - because we have a second downstairs, tearing this room apart wont affect us too much. I had a general idea
- [Final Ground Preparations](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/09/final-ground-preparations.html) - We're finally ready to sow the seeds for our little green lawn! Aaaah. But before we reached this point, we had some final ground preparations to be achieve. Firstly, we had to level out the soil so that rain water won't pool and it's not all lumpy bumpy when the grass grows. I actually thought
- [Removing Concrete in the Garden](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/09/removing-concrete-in-garden.html) - Ta-dah! Like magic, and a lot of heavy lifting (oh my back), the concrete feature that sat in the middle of the garden is now gone! It was a bit of an arduous process - the beginning was the hardest. Digging deep down and using a sledgehammer to remove the bricks from beneath it was
- [Garden Update](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/08/garden-update.html) - Today was the first day in what's felt like aaages since I got out in the garden and did some work. I could blame the weather, but I've just been lazy. Although admittedly, the weather wasn't on my side today. I'm trying to get back into a proper routine so I get the most out
- [Asbestos In the Shed](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/07/asbestos-in-shed.html) - Since beginning our jungle clean-up, I knew from the beginning I wanted this shed taken down. There's nothing wrong with it, and yes it does provide useful storage for all those tools... But we have an extensive basement for all that storage. And this is just consuming space in the garden. PLUS, you see that window.. well,
- [Garden Renovation - Just Diggin' Graves](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/07/digging-graves.html) - Yep, today I dug myself a grave. Or perhaps it should be for Grant... Either way, here it is... OK so it's not a grave and if it was a grave I'd still have a looong way to go with the digging. But admittedly passer-by, this does look a bit dodgy. Originally, this patch was a rock-bed which
- [House Tour: Ground Floor](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/07/house-tour-ground-floor.html) - House tour time! Our new house has three floors, so I'm going to do a post for each and today, I'm featuring the ground floor. So if you fancy a little nose around our new house, keep reading... So, let's start at the entrance, shall we? This is the front door. Well actually, this is
- [House Tour: Second Floor & Attic](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/07/house-tour-second-floor-attic.html) - Moving onto the second part of our house tour, today I'm showing you around our upstairs floor. This includes two bedrooms, a bathroom and an attic room. It's a slightly more square footage than the ground floor (due to the downstairs 'extension') but there is so much potential for all the rooms, I'm literally itching
- [House Tour: The Basement!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/07/house-tour-basement.html) - The final section of our new house tour! This 'floor' is beneath ground level - it's the basement! Whilst I'm calling it a basement, I think most would call it a cellar. Is there a difference? I'm not sure. Either way, it's underground, you get what I mean. At the moment it's really just there
- [Fitting Plasterboard in the Bathroom](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/01/plasterboarding-with-moisture-resistant.html) - It's finally happened - we put up a ceiling! We've had three large moisture resistant plasterboard sheets sat in our hallway for about a month and they are finally in place! We've never DIY plasterboarded before, so this was a first for us. We chose moisture-resistant plasterboard (recognisable by its green colour) because of the moisture a bathroom generates.
- [Plumbing Part 1; Water Pipes](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/03/plumbing-part-1-water-pipes.html) - This post has been a looong time coming.. We have been working on the plumbing in the bathroom for some time now, a day here, a day there... but we've been pushing through these final stretches and we're very nearly complete!We've never done proper plumbing before. In our last house we just worked with what
- [Plumbing Part 2; Waste Pipes](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/03/plumbing-part-2-waste-pipes.html) - Technically speaking, this should probably be part 1 - we started this some time before we did the mains plumbing, but it was somewhat more complex to plan out, so took much longer than anticipated. The waste pipes initially ran above the floor level in the bathroom and were simply boxed in.. But as we're
- [Plans for Garden Seating](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/04/plans-for-garden-seating.html) - I recently posted a picture on Instagram of an enormous stack of pallets. We found a guy close to where we live who was selling these on eBay at the magnificent bargain price of £1 a pallet. I know you can often find pallets for free; but actually this is easier said than done. There's
- [Small DIY Distasters](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/small-diy-distasters.html) - OK, so I wouldn't really call this a 'disaster' as such - probably just a small cock-up; but in our few years of being DIYers we were yet to have any sort of disaster. The only issues we'd ever had was mis-measuring lengths of skirting board which never mattered too much anyway as we just
- [Patching and Painting](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/patching-and-painting.html) - I am super excited to announce that the bathroom is finally painted! It doesn't sound like much, but after living in building-site conditions for around nine months, there's something about a painted wall that brings an end to all the dust, dirt and grime!In my last bathroom update, I had just finished plastering the ceiling
- [How to Identify Plants... With Apps!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/08/how-to-identify-plants-with-apps.html) - A couple of few weeks ago this plant (photoed above) popped out of no-where. Literally no-where. It's growing in a small gap in the brick wall. My first assumption was that it was a pesky bugger of a weed - but with a second look, I realised it looked awfully familiar to a plant Grant's
- [Smallest Bedroom Plans](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/09/smallest-bedroom-plans.html) - As the bathroom is nearing completion (seriously, it's nearly completed!) I've began to Pinterest and dream of our next renovation project: the smallest bedroom.This room is directly adjacent to the bathroom and is very similar in size. It has a few little niggling issues - there are water pipes running through this room which are
- [The New Consumer Unit Is Installed!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/the-new-consumer-unit-is-installed.html) - A bit of a boring post, this one. But, renovating the home isn't always as exciting as it might seem. This job has been in the making for a long long time. It's probably the entire reason we haven't pushed harder to complete the bathroom before now. Why? Because fitting a new consumer unit doesn't
- [Grand Designs Live 2015](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/grand-designs-live-2015.html) - I have a real love for these kind of home and garden exhibitions! I've been to a few now and I really enjoy them. It's great for inspiration, ideas, finding new brands and companies and discovering new ideas and concepts in design. The world is ever changing, after all.This year was my second time at
- [The Whole Truth](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/11/the-whole-truth.html) - I don't like to write bad words about a company without a real need to, but I feel I wouldn't be telling the truth if I didn't do so. We haven't had the best luck when employing tradesman, perhaps I'm just super picky, perhaps my expectations are too high, possibly unrealistic, or perhaps we are
- [Hiding Pipes Behind Skirting](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/12/hiding-pipes-behind-skirting.html) - One niggling thing about the smallest bedroom is that it contains the water tank/immersion heater (whatever you choose to call it!) - not only is this a giant waste of good bedroom space(!!) but it also means the pipes run through the bedroom. I hate visible pipe and I also hate excessive pipe-boxing. As a
- [Easy Installation Bathroom Mirrors](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/easy-installation-bathroom-mirrors.html) - I remember the first time I ever tackled DIY - my sister wanted my mum to put up some shelves in her bedroom and I was enrolled to aid as a helping hand. We'd never been allowed to paint the walls (oh how I hated you, magnolia!) blu-tac posters to the wall or put up
- [Patching, Painting and Decorating!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/02/patching-painting-and-decorating.html) - This post is a bit of a mis-mash of the last couple of months work in the smallest bedroom. Although each job took quite a lot of time, there wasn't really much I could really write about each job, (it was truly dull and boring work!) so I'm combining everything into one giant post which
- [Quotes, Quotes.... Frustrating Quotes.](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/02/quotes-quotes-frustrating-quotes.html) - So, I've been feeling a little frustrated recently. Perhaps you can tell from the title of this post? I'm from a small town where apparently finding a decent honest reliable builder or tradesperson is somewhat impossible! OK, I'm being way too harsh and unfair. I'm certain there's some good honest tradespeople out there, but I'm
- [Puppy Progress 8-10 Weeks](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/05/doug-8-10-weeks.html) - I think I'm going to continue this puppy progress diary until 16weeks(?) with 2 weeks at a time. Then maybe I'll do monthly or two-monthly updates. In the last 2 weeks Doug has learnt to climb stairs.. He could only go up the first 3 at first (the rest are a little taller) but now by 10 weeks
- [First House: Kitchen Tour](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/05/kitchen-tour.html) - Welcome to my kitchen, this is probably my favourite room of the house, and is also the room we improved and changed the most. It's nothing too fancy but it was pretty darn cheap and it does the job. Biggest save - we have no wall cabinets. BUT it makes the room appear so much bigger, and let's face
- [First House: Garden/Yard Tour](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/05/gardenyard-tour.html) - I never know what to call this outside space - I usually refer to it as a garden, but actually it's more of a yard. Before we created any sort of design out here it was just one big concrete outside space. A garden to me is soil and being able to plant stuff. We can't do
- [Puppy Progress 10-12 Weeks](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/05/puppy-progress-10-12-weeks.html) - The last two weeks have been pretty jam-packed in the puppy world. Doug had his final jabs, discovered the outside world and also we had our first (and hopefully last!) item loss due to his teething/chewing phase. Unfortunately this was some of Grants uber sexy and expensive earphones. Oops. So here's some of the stuff Doug has learnt in
- [When Dogs Scratch Up the Door](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/05/when-dogs-scratch-up-door.html) - Today is Monday. Monday is when people go back to work after a fabulous weekend off... Monday is the day my solicitor-chasing job begins again. This makes me stressed and angry and frustrated and I'm still no closer to answers on WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING WITH THIS SALE. Eurgh. To take my mind off
- [First House: Spare Bedroom Tour](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/05/spare-bedroom-tour.html) - This is the smallest of two bedrooms and when I say small.. I mean small. You'd actually struggle to comfortably fit a bed and anything else in here! The 'bed' made-up is actually a blow-up mattress. If you've ever slept on these, you'll know how unrealistically small they are. Still, it gives the illusion of much
- [Doggy Day Out - Huttoft Beach](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/06/doggy-day-out-huttoft-beach.html) - Yesterday was the first day of our two-weeks off work. We'd initially booked these weeks off to go travelling in Thailand - but as always, life doesn't quite go to plan sometimes. The money allocated to travelling became a security blanket for all the financial problems going wrong in our house sale. I had lost
- [We're Moving!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/06/were-moving.html) - It's official, it's happening! (hopefully) OK so things have gone wrong so many times I still have caution and disbelief, but today we exchanged contracts which make the sale legally binding. If either party pulls out now they're liable to losing their deposits and a lot of money to the other side, so it's meant
- [First House: Bedroom Tour](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/06/bedroom-tour.html) - The last room tour - the bedroom! This is actually a pretty large room.. especially for a terraced house. Probably a good thing too as we have a pretty large wardrobe that would cramp anything smaller. This bed is actually ridiculously old and worn (hence why it's looking a bit dishevelled) and has physically broken so many
- [Packing Up Our Life & Moving Out!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/06/packing-up-our-life.html) - Last Wednesday we got the grand news that we had finally exchanged contracts and would finally be moving house! HURRAH! After losing 3 buyers originally, it meant we had also lost the house we intended to buy. So when buyer number 4 came along, we decided to sit back and let the sale take its course before
- [Farewell Home, Hello Homeless](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/06/farewell-home-hello-homeless.html) - The day finally came for us to say farewell to our first beloved little home. It was a day of mixed feelings really. We'd been anticipating and looking forward this day for so long but when it came and we realised this is where our journey as homeowners ends, for the time being, I felt
- [Puppy Progress 14-16 Weeks](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/06/puppy-progress-14-16-weeks.html) - This will be my last puppy update for a while, as little Doug has reached 16 weeks (Four months!) already. Craaazeh. I actually expected him to be bigger at 16 weeks, but he's still such a little pup and I don't think he's really grown much more in the last two weeks. At least not
- [Living Out of Boxes: Our Temporary Home](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/06/our-temporary-home.html) - So I mentioned in one of my last posts that we had moved in with Grants parents, who conveniently live in the same town as us, however they live in quite a small 3-bed house, that really wasn't built to accommodate four fully grown adults, four cats, two dogs and an entire house worth of
- [Saving for a Deposit](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/07/saving-for-deposit.html) - So you want to buy a house, but first of all, you need to tackle that mammoth task of saving for a deposit. Before the recession, you could get a mortgage with a £0 deposit meaning anyone and everyone could buy a house, near enough. Post-recession, however, banks and building societies became hugely cautious and
- [We're Moving, Again!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/07/were-moving-again.html) - Yup, it's happening. We're moving again! Yesterday we exchanged contracts on the new house with completion set for today! (HURRAH!) We received our final searches back last week and ever since we've been trying to exchange contracts, but for one reason or another, it kept getting delayed and delayed. But finally, here we are -
- [Our Retro Home](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/07/our-retro-home.html) - Welcome to our retro home! Five days ago we bought this 3-bed Victorian Terrace whose former owner lived here for over 60 years! That's pretty hard for me to even imagine, but the lady who lived here must have simply loved the house to have stayed for so long (and I can see why!). She
- [Sofa Ahoy!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/07/sofa-ahoy.html) - In the four years since first moving out, I've always had the attitude that we should 'make do' with furniture. Other than buying a brand new wardrobe when we first moved out, almost everything else (bar the TV stand) has been hand-me-downs or second-hand from eBay. This includes our sofas. In four years, we've been
- [Garden Plans](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/08/garden-plans.html) - At long last I have drawn up our plans for the garden. OK when I say 'our', I mean mine. Grants suggestion on garden landscaping ended at "can't we just grass the lot and be done with it?", well no sir, no we cannot. He did however ask for a fire-pit which I have gladly
- [Newark Antiques & Collectors Fair](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/08/newark-antiques-collectors-fair.html) - I'd never been to an antiques fair before and had no idea what to expect from one - Newark is well known for it's antique auctions, antique shops and also its antique fair which is one of the largest in Europe. Having lived in the area for many years, I've only attended one auction (which
- [Puppy Progress - 6 Months](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/08/puppy-progress-6-months.html) - In a couple of days Doug will reach the ripe old age of 6 months. He's nearly a full-grown pup! With our three home-moves over the past couple of months I haven't noticed his growth week on week, it just suddenly crept up, and now he's a giant! OK, he's totally not a giant -
- [Halogen Ovens?](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/09/halogen-ovens.html) - I'm not sure whether I've mentioned yet the fact that we don't actually have an oven. The week we moved in, Grant's mum kindly gave us a microwave and we lived off microwave food for the first three weeks. Expensive and dull. I was on the lookout on eBay for one of those mini-ovens that
- [Bed Haul (We Have a Bed!)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/09/bed-haul-we-have-bed.html) - Yep, you read that right. After almost three months of sleeping on the floor (no mattress, just floor.) we finally have a bed! We started off our floor-sleeping venture after we had to get rid of our broken make-shift bed at the old house before moving in with Grants parents for a month. To be
- [Building a Temporary Dog-Proof Fence](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/09/building-temporary-dog-proof-fence.html) - Doug is a digger. I don't mean he's an actual digger; I don't use pet names for machinery (hell, I actually wish I had a digger).. No, what I mean is, he digs. A lot. If we're going to successfully grow grass the seeds need to be able to actually take root before they're dug up by
- [Pet Haul](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/09/pet-haul.html) - I've done a fair bit of pet-shopping over the last couple of months and thought I'd share some of my purchases. Doug the destroyer has issues with destroying dog beds. In my new-house wishlist, I was after a new dog bed because Doug has this habbit of pulling all the stuffing out. Great that, I
- [Doggy Day Out - Sherwood Forest](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/09/doggy-day-out-sherwood-forest.html) - Today we decided to take an Autumn trip out with the dogs to Sherwood Forest. We went here a couple of years ago in the summer when we just had the one dog, but oh my gosh, visiting in the Autumn is even more beautiful! I love it when the all the leaves begin turning
- [Elliott Sofa from Made.com](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/elliott-sofa-from-madecom.html) - Two months ago I posted how I'd bought a new sofa blindly from made.com - I thought I'd do an update on it - because after an 8 week wait, it's finaaallllyyyy here! Can you tell how excited I am? I swear I haven't watched TV in two whole months, craaazy! I feel like I'm
- [A Day at Grand Designs Live!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/a-day-at-grand-designs-live.html) - Yesterday I attended Grand Designs Live at Birmingham NEC. I'm sure everybody knows what Grand Designs is, but just in-case you've only just come out of hibernation; it's a TV programme showcasing real-life unique and unusual grand house-builds. These houses are grand beyond belief, in literally every detail. So Grand Designs Live is all about building, designing,
- [7 Easy Ways to Draught Proof Your Home](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/7-easy-ways-to-draught-proof-your-home.html) - Our first owned home had no heating paired with single glazed windows - if I say it was preeettty cold throughout winter, you probably can't appreciate just how cold it could be. We lived in this house for 3 whole years and learnt to live with it's draughty problems, so I thought as the cold
- [Grass Growth Update - 1 Month On](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/10/grass-update-1-month-on.html) - In my last grass growth update, I finished the blog with a patchy yet obvious lawn that still had some growing left to do. I thought I'd do one last update for this year as it's grown so much! So here's 1 month grass growth update! It needs a bit of a cut, but apparently,
- [Removing Lath and Plaster Ceiling, Part 2](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/11/removing-lath-and-plaster-ceiling-part-2.html) - In my last post, we spent the day removing plaster from the wooden laths. And what a mess it created! Now, we just needed to remove the laths. We decided to clean as we go this time, with one of us removing the laths (Grant) and the other cleaning (me). This way, the muck didn't
- [There are Two Types of Scrim Tape?!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/02/there-are-two-types-of-scrim-tape.html) - The ceiling is ALMOST done! It feels like it's taken forever! Saying "we replaced the bathroom ceiling" doesn't sound like a big job, but in reality, it's been an incredibly time-consuming and mucky job. Ultimately, the ceiling is only one small part of our bathroom renovation and we have much much more work ahead of
- [How to Choose an Extractor Fan for the Bathroom (And Installing It!)](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/11/fitting-bathroom-extractor-fan.html) - Apologies for the lack of posting over the last week and a half, I'm struggling to juggle between working extra hours at my job and trying to achieve forward movement in our bathroom renovation. It's a hard balance to achieve; on one hand I want to work like hell and earn super cash to fund
- [PicStick Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/11/picstick-review.html) - I'm back with another review! Much later than anticipated, I should add.. The Christmas season is just soo busy! Argh. I do wish I could sit back and enjoy the festive season more, but c'est la vie. Anyway, this review is for these awesome photo magnets. And what a great Christmas gift idea these are! At £9.50 for
- [Ceiling Noggins!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/11/noggins.html) - You may have noticed in one of my last posts that the ceiling joists had gained some extra pieces of wood - more commonly known as noggins. These are small lengths of wood that fit firmly in between the joists. Not only do these add more areas to screw plasterboard into as every edge will need to
- [The Fan Is Wired!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2014/12/the-fan-is-wired.html) - This is just a little quick update on the extractor fan - it's wired! I managed to find an electrician via mybuilder.com - and this is the first time I've ever tired a tradesman before! I'm excited on all levels, ha! The job took less than 40 minutes to complete, and we now have a working fan
- [How to Fill That Gap Between the Ceiling and Wall](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/01/filling-that-gap-between-ceiling-and.html) - After we removed the lath and plaster ceiling in the bathroom and replaced it with modern plasterboard approach, we were left with a sizeable gap between the ceiling and wall. This was because the new ceiling was much thinner than the old lath and plaster was! So we now had a nice big gappy border
- [Geo Minim Energy Monitor Review](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/03/geo-minim-energy-monitor-review.html) - I am a huge believer in not wasting money - I wouldn't ever buy a coffee and not drink it, I always shop around for the cheapest car insurance, I do my food shop in multiple places just to get the best prices, so why should our energy bills be any different? Why waste money?Buying
- [Turning 25?!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2016/01/turning-25.html) - Eeep, so over the weekend I turned 25.Twenty-five.It wasn't the most thrilling of days - Grant had been working the previous night which meant he slept all day and then I worked a night shift that evening. I did have plans to get my hair cut (6 months without a cut was much needed) however
- [8 Hours in Copenhagen](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/12/8-hours-in-copenhagen.html) - As we spend most our time either working or renovating, a few months ago we decided to make more time to travel. Not only do I love to travel anyway, but it's also a great way to actually take a break from the work.I love Christmas markets and after having visited the one in Nottingham
- [A Bathroom Homewares Haul](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/11/a-bathroom-homewares-haul.html) - I don't often get the chance to shop for homely bit and bobs, because we're constantly saving and prioritising money in preparation for our next home renovation project. The finishing touches just end up having to wait.. and wait. But after a bit of Christmas-pressie shopping at TK Maxx, I just couldn't resist a few
- [4 Days in Lisbon](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/4-days-in-lisbon.html) - If there's one thing I've learnt about living and renovating your own home - it's that you don't get a break. Ever. We work, we sleep and we work some more. We have paid jobs and we then we have our unpaid job - our home renovation. It doesn't really ever end. It's one huge
- [Gorgeous Christmas Bouquets](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/10/gorgeous-christmas-bouquets.html) - With just 66 days until Christmas (yep, you read that right!) it's needless to say the planning prep has officially begun. Lists are being made, presents are being bought and bank accounts are slowly emptying. I currently have a list about as long as my arm, full of names and ideas of what I might
- [Home Buys from Thailand](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/home-buys-from-thailand.html) - My very final post regarding Thailand - What I bought! Other than gifts for family and friends and a few t-shirts for Grant, pretty much everything was home-orientated.. Which has also inspired me for a theme on the smallest spare bedroom! I'm thinking yellow and elephants ;)We mainly shopped via market stalls in Thailand -
- [5 Days in Phuket](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/5-days-in-phuket.html) - Previous Post: 5 Days in Chiang MaiOnto the last stretch of our adventures in Thailand.. Phuket! This place was infinitely more tourist-y than Chiang Mai and Bangkok - But for good reason! White sands and blue seas make this destination a dream come true!DAY 1 // KATA BEACH // PALM SQUARE.We left Chiang Mai early
- [5 Days in Chiang Mai](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/5-days-in-chiang-mai.html) - Previous Post: 5 Days in BangkokDAY 1 // OLD CITY // DASH! RESTAURANT // KHAO SOI.We arrived in Chiang Mai by Sleeper train from Bangkok, which pulled into the station at around 8am. Whilst the station wasn't exactly close to our hotel, we decided to kill some time and walk the journey since we had arrived
- [5 Days in Bangkok](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/07/5-days-in-bangkok.html) - If you follow me on Instagram you will have seen I have been away for the past three weeks travelling around Thailand. I had the most amazing time, Thailand is such a crazy place in so many awesome ways and I would thoroughly recommend a visit! I think Grant has named it his favourite place,
- [My Country Style #HomeLifeDreamHome](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/06/my-country-style-homelifedreamhome.html) - This is my entry into the HomeLifeDreamHome competition with HomeLifeDirect. A bit of a different post from my usual DIY posts, but I thought the idea sounded quite fun and different.So, the idea is that you pick items from around their online store that you would want in your dream home. Our home is currently
- [How My Childhood Homes have Changed](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/04/how-my-childhood-homes-have-changed.html) - The glorious thing about the internet, is that you can find almost anything. Including photos of all your old homes, if you snoop around in the right place! Rightmove not only lists homes for sale, but also keeps a catalogue of sold house prices complete with the estate agent photos. This makes it super easy
- [Top 5 Patterned Outdoor Cushions](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/03/top-5-patterned-outdoor-cushions.html) - Hello, good morning, good evening. This is a very different post for me, but I'm branching out and trying new things with this blog. I'm also trying to get a bit more creative on the new iMac, so my blog is the perfect guinea pig for my creations (if you can even call them that!).
- [Puppy Progress - 1 Year Old!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/02/puppy-progress-1-year-old.html) - 1 YEAR OLD!How has it been a year already?! A whole year? HOW!? Today little (little no more!) Doug turned a whole year old! Bonkers! I, of course bought a cake for the occasion - it wouldn't be a birthday without a cake!.. Any excuse for cake. ;) As well as cake there was balloons and
- [How to Make Microwave Pancakes!](https://www.kezzabeth.co.uk/2015/02/how-to-make-microwave-pancakes.html) - Since we don't have any hobs, this Shrove Tuesday we were unable to make pancakes the traditional way.. But that certainly didn't stop us! I suggested we try to make them in the microwave, since microwaves seem to be able to cook almost anything else, I figured it was worth a shot. Low and beyond,

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