Category: Monthly Updates

Well, with Arthur’s birth in January I’ve neglected this space a little but we’re back and spending any spare time we have renovating the house. This month, we finished decorating Arthur’s room and are just waiting for his furniture to arrive in early June. I am over the moon with how this room turned out…

This month, the living room has taken priority to get it ready in time for Christmas/baby’s arrival in the early new year. We’re now at the point where with each new day the room is looking completely different. This is always the most exciting part though as it really starts to take shape and you…

I am getting so bad at remembering to take plenty of photos and videos of the house. But this month, we finally finished the upstairs bedroom and moved in! We’re still waiting on shutters to be fitted which won’t be until the new year and I need to do the final bits of decorating but…

This month it got really exciting. We finally started painting! I always love this stage as it means we’re not too far away from furnishing it (ie the best bit). David fitted the spot lights in the bedroom this month too. I was a bit apprehensive about installing them in a bedroom as I thought…

We’re five months in – this month in particular has been all about getting the upstairs bedroom done and fitting some new window sills downstairs too. The bedroom needed so much work – it especially needed insulation which my Dad and David have painstakingly fitted (whilst removing tonnes of crap hidden behind the stud work,…

This month we made progress on the main bedroom, putting the dividing wall up and insulating the dormer window (I say ‘we’ but it was all my dad and David). The plan is to get this bedroom done before Christmas and move all our belongings up into there, freeing up the room we’re currently using…

This month was all about windows! Prepping for them, getting them… they’re our biggest expense so far and have made the biggest difference to the house’s exterior. Our previous windows were a mixture of original rotting timber windows and newer poorly fitted mahogany uPVC windows. They were drafty, impractical (with handles in all the wrong…

We’ve been in a bit of limbo this month. Our new windows and doors get fitted early July and until then, there’s very few tasks we can do that make sense to do this side of the fitting. Once they’re in, there’s plenty we need to get on with – the most exciting part is…

It’s crazy to think we’ve been in the house one month, seems like we’ve been here forever but really we’ve only just started on the renovations. Once we moved in we set our list of priorities and at the top of the list was a rewire and brand new doors and windows. We knew the…