Our First Home Archives - Page 18 of 19 - WELL I GUESS THIS IS GROWING UP

We caved for central heating. Tropical house warming party anyone?

I can’t believe how quickly everything is coming along. The central heating is being installed this week and I am certainly not suprised that a lot of houses in our…

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Bathroom

Bathtime = time to get dirty

After the bathroom wall came down at the weekend, the next fun job was destroying the bath. It was pretty much a holding point for rubble at this point from…

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Master Bedroom

Skim skimskeroo

Although the house is practically falling apart (mostly our doing to be honest. Sledgehammers are just far too fun) the walls are suprisingly in pretty good shape. Of course there…

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Making a house a home

I love that Joe added to this blog yesterday. I was visiting family at the weekend and was away with work on Monday and Tuesday so I’m really enjoying looking…

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Demolition Man

The other day I had a great pleasure of tearing down the joining wall from our enclosed WC to the main bathroom with my cousin Gary. First we had to…

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Mum’s the word

I was lucky enough to get 2 days off work this week (Thursday & Friday) to get some more done on the house. My mum (Angela) came to see the…

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Garden

Demolition caught on film

The weekend at the house included a fair bit of demolition in the garden. And I wish I could take credit for this, but to be honest, I’m a bit…

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What bank holidays are made of…

I’ve always been aware that bank holidays are big for DIY and getting good deals (HURRY, SALE ENDS MONDAY. GET IT NOW OR DIE A MISERABLE DEATH FROM REGRET). But…

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Garden

Never thought I’d be blogging about a fence…

A really nice suprise when we arrived on the Saturday morning was that some fences had already been delivered for the front garden. This was courtesy of Joe’s Aunty and…

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Garden

The Jungle that was our garden

After almost 6 months since we had our offer accepted on the house, we are finally granted access, and in that time the garden has become pretty much like a…

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