"I know most people are downsizing at our age – my husband Dave and I are in our mid-to-late 60s – but this is our chance to have our dream house,…
Renovation blogs
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We had at least eight weeks to wait for the decision on our planning permission. Time to settle into the house and mull over the decor. Then make some decisions on…
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No one said remodelling a bathroom was easy, and for my husband Marcus and I, it was certainly a dusty affair …
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Planning permission was first on the agenda, but where to start with a grade-2 listed property? Luckily I knew a friend who had some walls replaced in the garden of her…
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I’ll get straight to the point. Finding tradespeople – good, quality, tradespeople that tick all the right boxes – is hard. Probably the most stressful part of this renovating process so…
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With moving in day finally upon us it was safe to say that we didn’t know much about renovating before we took on the mammoth task of gutting and extending our…
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Now that I've got the keys to my Surrey-based 1930s doer-upper, it’s time to move in and figure our what to tackle first……
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I love old houses. The one I grew up in was 500 years old. The heating creaked the floorboards at night, the walls were slightly warped and (to my sister’s terror)…