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I recently bought a house together with my wife, Alison, and we’re renovating and decorating it. As we go along we’re logging our progress and taking photos. Track our progress and maybe even learn something.

Plans for our new driveway

Lately we’ve been thinking about what we can do to improve the driveway as it’s not very good looking or practical. We have patchy gravel with a concrete flagstone path made from at the moment we also have a manhole … Continue reading

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Staircase finished at last!

Yes, the staircase is done! No more sanding, scraping and blasting the old paint off! I’ll post some photos as soon as I take some but the difference is unbelievable.

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Staircase progress

This week we’ve been mostly… sanding back the staircase, oh joy! I’ll keep my mough shut the next time I have an idea like this! Although it looks good it’s been such a pain to do. After taking of most … Continue reading

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DIY Update

Once agin it’s been some time since last posted… partly due to doing loads of diy until recently anyway. We’ve not done any diy this week but we did get plenty done at the weekend. Since last time I wrote … Continue reading

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Quick Update

It’s been a while since I posted so I though I’d better write something! Since we got back from holiday we’ve both been really busy at work, and now we’ve kicked off the decorating again. We’ve now made a start … Continue reading

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Hallway Nearly Done

As the days draw longer we seem to have less and less time to do any DIY, although we don’t do loads on a night it all adds up, however we can’t do much at all any more due to … Continue reading

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