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Five Friday Favourites
A place to share things that I love or have inspired me recently… This hallway by James Gorst Architects. I love the green/blue stairs. Another stairs post I found on Pinterest, we could really benefit from under the stairs shoe storage. This storage solution would be the dream! These Little Dutch bath boats for Arthur.… Read more
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Our Upstairs Bathroom Plans
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… Read more
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House Update: June 2023
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… Read more
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House Update: May 2023
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… Read more
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Our Garden Plans
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… Read more
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Our Full Home ‘Before’ Tour
I was reading Robin and Wren’s blog and stumbled across her ‘our full home before tour’ post and thought it was a brilliant idea (and why didn’t I think of doing the same when we moved in?!). We’ve been in our house a little over a year now and have so far finished three rooms,… Read more
Renovation Redpath 