Category: Monthly Updates

November! We are so close to welcoming 2026, but this room is the final push before Christmas. My dad has worked so hard on this room the last few weeks (and David has helped as much as he can when he can – and Arthur too!). This month has been mainly about decorating (filling/sanding/painting those…

October, October, October. Can you believe it’s been and gone? I think I begin every monthly update this way but honestly where is the year going? This month the focus was on the living room. My Dad skimmed the whole room before we started adding the panelling on the back wall. We also decided at…

August was a quieter month as David focused on getting the last of the decking set up, including the steps on either side of the decking itself. We also removed the fireplace from our living and dining room and then September arrived! With the old fire gone, my dad got started on prepping the room…

I wrote about our garden endeavours back in May and June and July were more of the same! Taking advantage of the long days and warm weather, we spent quite a lot of time outdoors this month. David in particular spent many evenings prepping the top section of the garden for the turf. It was…

May was all about getting stuck into the big jobs – the kind that are messy, heavy and a bit back-breaking! We made a proper start on the garden this month. The first big task was putting in a retaining wall using sleepers. That meant digging out a trench and getting everything level before slotting…

March and April were all about the hallway. It’s one of those spaces you walk through a hundred times a day, so we really wanted to get it right – and after a couple of months of steady progress, it finally feels like it’s coming together. We started by installing new coving. It really adds…

Another month flown over! Here’s everything we did in February… This month was all about the stairs! Since we’ve moved in we’ve known we’ve wanted to replace the metal spindles with wooden ones. Because we’re keeping the original newel posts we opted for a plain straight edge spindle on the stairs. We applied Kling strip…

It’s been a busy start to the year what with Arthur’s 2nd birthday, new shutters and lots of work on the upstairs landing. We celebrated Arthur’s birthday right at the beginning of the month, hosting a construction themed birthday for him. He loves diggers and was so excited by the decorations. On his birthday Arthur…

The last update for the year! Here’s everything we squeezed into the last month of 2024… At the beginning of the month, David and I worked on getting the hallway painted, or at least tidied up a little as it was freshly plastered and quite dark and dingy (see last month’s update for the pictures).…

You know when you’re anticipating a big home project and brace yourself for the inconvenience and it turns out to be worse than you thought? That was us this month when the scaffolding went up! Don’t get me wrong – we needed to put this up so that we could plaster the ceiling but one…