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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Hi - I'm Kezzabeth! Self-taught DIYer, Renovator and Blogger on a mission to turn our house into a home. Seven years ago I was clueless and skill-less, but since then I've learnt how to build, tile, plumb and more. This is my little place on the web where I share everything I've learnt so you can learn too. Read More
