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
Category: New Home
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…
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…
We’ve now completed painting the walls of the music room and the hall both in Farrow & Ball Bone. Originally we planned the music room…