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