The Staircase Paneling Plan
When we told you about our staircase restoration progress at the beginning of the week (you can read about it here), we hinted that we had another staircase related project planned. Well, if you hadn’t...
View ArticleDIY Duel: Staircase Restoration – Part 4 (Starting to loose count)
Our staircase restoration is almost complete and not wanting the project to end although we’re desperate for the project to end, we’ve made even more work for ourselves by deciding to install some...
View ArticleDIY Duel: Staircase Restoration – Part 5 (Yep, we’d hoped to be finished by now)
We hope you’re all not getting too excited about this week’s staircase restoration update. There has been a distinct lack of progress. Last week we told you about plastering the wall alongside the...
View ArticleOur Edwardian Door Restoration
With so many doors around our house in a complete state of disrepair, it was inevitable that we’d be sharing a door make over with you sooner or later. Our living room has already come a long way since...
View ArticleDIY Duel: Staircase Restoration – Part 6 (Almost there now!)
Last week our staircase restoration didn’t see much progress. The moulding we wanted for the staircase panelling hadn’t arrived and our motivation was at an all-time low. With the end so near, this...
View ArticleThe Runner Up
Yesterday we told you about our staircase restoration progress. There are a few things that still need finishing off, but we’re really happy with the result so far. As we’re so close to finishing the...
View ArticleAvoiding The Big Freeze
Have you ever had a burst or frozen pipe? Although we’ve had a few minor catastrophes (which never seem small at the time), we’ve been lucky enough not yet to have had anything majorly go wrong....
View ArticleDIY Duel: Staircase Restoration – It’s done!!!!!
After months and months of staircase restoration work and countless updates, the day has finally arrived! Can’t believe it – well neither can we – but our staircase restoration project is finally...
View ArticleWhat Would You Do?
Although we finally managed to finish our staircase restoration last week (yep, we still keep running into the hallway to just stand there and stare at it) there are still a lot of things in the...
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Walking The Plank
It’s been done for a while now, so it’s high time that we share the details of our living room floor restoration with you. It’s one of favourite makeovers so far and made an unbelievable difference to...
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The Wall
Last week we told you about our newest big project – rebuilding our dilapidated garden wall. Progress is slow. A few of the bricks are easy – but most of them complete pain to remove. The lower the...
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It’s Showtime, We’re Stripping…
… the walls in the second bedroom! Relieved, right?! So are we, as we’ve finally managed to get rid of the messy pink paint! This is what the room looked like on the day we moved in. Definitely an...
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Under Pressure
Yay, we’ve ticked the first box in our 2013 to do list! We’ve officially finished the installation of our new water mains. (You can read more about our other plans for the year here) We still have the...
View ArticleI just can’t get enough!
Progress in our spare bedroom is slow. Very slow. Last week we told you about starting to strip the wallpaper. Stripping the paper started out really well and it came off in huge strips. Well, the...
View ArticleGloss Over Gloss
We’re finally starting to see a bit of progress on our spare bedroom makeover. This weekend, as well as trying to finish stripping all the wallpaper (you can read more about it here) and stripping the...
View ArticleSkiming, Sanding and Priming
This weekend, in between lounging in the sun and watching about a million YouTube videos on how to build a wall (the jury is still out on if we will attempt to rebuild our garden wall ourselves), we...
View ArticleGo, Go Laminate Flooring
We’ve been amazingly busy in our guest bedroom and have spent a huge amount of time finishing the stripping, skimming, sanding, painting and – wait for it – removing the laminate flooring! Over the...
View ArticleWe’re Officially Laminateless!
Last week we finally removed the laminate flooring in our spare bedroom (You can read more about it here). You know how desperate I was to rip it all out, well, I have a bit of a confession to make… I...
View ArticleSanding, Sanding And More Sanding!
The main project we’re meant to be working on at the moment is remodelling our guest bedroom, (you can read about our progress so far here) but as usual we got ever so slightly distracted. As you...
View ArticleCarpet – Be Gone!
We may have gotten ever so slightly carried away with our flooring removal efforts. You already know that we ripped up the laminate flooring in the guest bedroom (which is the project we’re meant to be...
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