Category: Monthly Updates

Wow my first monthly update for 2024. I genuinely feel the years are flying by. This April will mark two years of living here yet it only feels like two minutes… This month’s focus was the upstairs office (what used to be the upstairs loo!). We moved into this room right at the end of…

If you follow me on Instagram you’ll have seen that this month we finished our upstairs bathroom! I’ve written a post with more photos and videos earlier this month which you can read via this link. This means our drainage is now in place and broken pipes have been fixed too which is a relief…

We achieved so much in November. Firstly, in the porch, we added in some of the decor I’ve had in storage for months such as the Garden Trading peg rail which I was very excited about! We also tidied up the paintwork on the internal windows using frog tape to mark a 3cm border on…

October! I can’t believe it’s already been and gone. This month, we really pushed on with the porch and the upstairs bathroom. In the bathroom, we ‘tanked’ the shower ready for decoration and fitting and started tiling! In here, we’re doing a brick effect metro tile using 7.5 x 30cm tiles. The shower tray is…

Another busy month! September saw a lot of progress made on the upstairs bathroom thanks to my dad. After installing the skylight in August, the room no longer felt like a storage cupboard and there’s been massive progress made ever since. The shower tray has been set. The supporting beam has been boxed in, insulated…

I wrote about how we had a quiet month in July but we’ve more than made up for it in August. This month we finished the vanity unit, deciding to seal the top using Neptune’s IsoGuard oil in Natural Oak. I am over the moon with how this turned out and so happy with the…

Compared to previous months, this one was quiet! For the first time in a while, we had a few weekends off and it was only towards the end of the month that we started our vanity unit project. If you follow me on Instagram you might’ve seen some of my stories about this but one…

This month Arthur’s bedroom furniture arrived! We’re still needing a few more things such as a chair and photo frames but this room is almost finished! We’ve done a very subtle forest / outdoor theme in here but I wanted this room to be a great transitional room which David and I can easily move…

This month we spent a lot of time in the garden. At last, the gravel where the hot tub was is gone, as are the stones which bordered the concrete slab. We’ve taken a lot back and have seeded it again so hopefully the grass grows through okay. I also painted our old fence green…