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 Read more

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 Read more

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). Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more