Category: Our Plans

We are about to start the most exciting part of decorating the porch: painting! This is my absolutely favourite part of renovating as it means the room is almost finished. The design for this room came together from a combination of many different homes on Pinterest. I loved the combination of light, bright and white…

As the dark nights roll in I’m reminded of the very few months we have left of 2023. Before we welcome 2024, here are our final projects for the last few months of the year. Upstairs bathroom It may not look it but we are so close to finishing the upstairs bathroom. This room has…

This year, one of our big plans is to do our upstairs bathroom. In the ‘our plans for the year ahead’ post (available to read here), I detailed how this would include sorting out and installing new drainage as we’re moving the bathroom to the right-side of the house. Currently, our upstairs bathroom is located…

We’re no strangers to garden work! Back in our old house we built a retaining wall and shovelled 10 tonnes of top soil into the garden to make it level but we swore we’d never take on a garden that needed so much work doing to it again. Then along came this house. Initially we…

Back in June last year I wrote this post, our plan of action for the house. Almost one year on, I am chuffed to say we have ticked off everything on the list. From removing the ivy in the garden, as well as the hot tub and pond, to plastering the walls and mending the…

Now two of the largest tasks (rewire and new windows/doors) are sorted, we can now get started on prepping the house for decorating. Our to-do list is quite lengthy but our next priorities include… Plastering We haven’t yet got around to sorting out the damage from the rewire. Every room has some sort of plastering…