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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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, Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more