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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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,…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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,…
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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
