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Flat out
Personally, I work better with deadlines. The latest deadline is a visit from my family to help clear some of the front garden. In order to offer some comfort we want to get the lounge finished. It didn’t seem too much of a challenge when we first set it… I started by filling the holes…
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Abracadabra
After sending off for a wide range of tile samples, we eventually agreed on a dark blue set for the shower. In order not to make the room feel too intense we chose a grey tile for the windowsill. We managed to get these second hand, buying enough that they will also do the shower…
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A little lick of paint
For me the most exciting thing this week has been getting the first bit of colour on the wall. Even though the rooms aren’t finished a little bit of paint seems to bring them to life. For Chris, the most exciting thing has been getting our shed up. The shed is a short-term storage solution,…
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Chaos
A week after we moved in we went on holiday. While this was a nice escape it also meant we returned to utter chaos. Aside from halfway through the roof rebuild, I think this is the most overwhelmed by the job either of have been. At least when we didn’t live here we had somewhere…
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Boxes, bags and a piano
We have moved. This was our first proper house move, having previously moved into our first house with very little of our own stuff. Cleaning out the house, it’s been slightly horrifying how much stuff we own. Even trying to donate and recycle we still seem have accumulated enough boxes that we could simply build…
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Making a mess
With this being our last weekend before we move, we were keen to try and get as much done as possible. However, though we’ve got plenty done, most of it was small and fiddly. It therefore doesn’t look like we’ve moved forward very much, yet the house is significantly messier. All the cleaning carried out…
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Fabulous floors
The contractors have returned, and finished nearly all of the window reveals. Though they take up a relatively small area within a room, it’s amazing how much more it makes the rooms look finished. One of our requests to them was that they put our curved corners back, and we were delighted to see they…
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And the kitchen sink…
This weekend was all about eating cake! Well, and DIY. Mostly DIY actually, but there was some cake. We’d been invited to Chris’s cousin’s 21st; an afternoon tea at a fancy hotel. In order to get a good day’s work in before we clocked off for the party, we decided to sleep over at the…
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A Bath with a View
We have light! It’s been a busy week for Chris, trying to finish off the last few sockets and light fittings before our electrician came to connect it all together. He was fairly worried incase it didn’t work, but luckily there were no major faults, and for the first time in nearly a year we…
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Rush
I feel this is going to be a short blog post. Although we’ve been working particularly hard, our energies have been put into a very small number of repetitive jobs. For me, it’s been never ending plastering. After initially being disappointed with my plastering efforts, Chris has lowered his expections and allowed me to continue…
Ruined 