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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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*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…
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*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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
