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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 –…
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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…
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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…
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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
