Category: Monthly Updates

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…

Nothing really happened in September so I’ve combined this with October’s update too. In September, the only thing we started was prepping the soil in the garden ready for hedges to be planted. They arrived in early October, and we spent a few days planting them in the border around the garden. After our trip…

This month was a really exciting one. We finished the last room upstairs! We’re currently using this room as Arthur’s playroom. It has freed up lots of space in his *current* bedroom but eventually, the playroom will actually become his bedroom. The last thing to do upstairs now is to finish off the landing and…

In July, we cracked on with the last bedroom. In last month’s update, I mentioned how we were adding the plasterboard onto the walls. Well, this month, all the plastering was finished, as was the painting and the panelling. Funnily enough, the paint is an almost identical colour to the one we have in the…

Lots of progress was made in the third bedroom this month. We added in some studwork and insulated the room before starting on adding the plasterboards to the walls too. We are getting so close to decorating! This room is at the back of the house; it’s quieter and so cosy with the windows giving…

Well, after a few weeks out of action due to Covid, we were finally able to crack on with the garden. Arthur loves spending time outdoors so I’ve been making it a priority to tidy up the garden and really push on with all the work we want to do. We’d been going back and…

I can’t believe how fast the year is flying by, and with April here, we’re officially two years into our renovation journey. This month, we turned our attention to what will become our third bedroom. Previously, this space was actually part of our main bedroom but after dividing the room into two back in 2022,…

I didn’t write an update post in February because, to be honest, we took the month off! We finished the office right at the beginning of the month and took the rest of the time just to chill out and enjoy it. Mid-March we got back into the work, starting with the fence.We added the…