Although I tackled the exterior of the living room windows in the summer, the interiors were still in a poor state until recently. Peeling paintwork,…
What the musician and the poet did next
Author: Robin
We inherited a rather ugly and non-original fireplace in the living room, which we had removed even before we’d moved in. We then dragged our…
The entrance hall to the flat is narrow and there is a wall of nasty 1950s-style toughened glass panels separating us from the communal hallway…
When we moved in, the bedroom windows were fitted with the ugliest kind of blackout blinds, made of PVC I think and encased in aluminium…
After a year without anywhere to put clothes we were SO ready for a proper wardrobe. We could finally ditch the dusty clothes rails, the…
‘Summer house’ sounds rather grand, in fact it’s right next to the house and at the moment more of a store than anything. But we…
When we told people we had a south-facing garden everyone said that was brilliant, and I can see why. I’ve never seen flowers grow and thrive…
With a project this size its important to have small goals, while keeping an eye on the big picture of course. The major work we’d…
When Lucy came to stay the sun shone, we walked to the pier and back to Holywell Tearoom, and ended up having eye-wateringly expensive cocktails…
Our lovely brother- and sister-in-law gave us some garden centre tokens as part of a Christmas pressie, and we spent them a few weeks back…