Over the last few years we have done extensive work to our home – with a new bathroom, a new extension and a loft conversion in the pipeline. There are always so many decisions to make with any work on your home and one of the most important decisions is always what flooring to use. What flooring should I use? You may think that you have a simple choice between…
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A year ago we made probably the most middle class decision we have ever made – and we got a cleaner. I had been working from home for a year and found my time pulled between the house, school and work and trying to cram everything into the hours that the children were at school just wasn’t possible. Then, when Dave changed jobs and ended up working Monday to Friday…
We always have a list of jobs that need doing around the house and one that we have been meaning to tick off for such a long time was replacing two old radiators in the bedrooms. When we came back from Florida it felt so cold, and like autumn had really set in, that we booked someone to fit new radiators for us immediately. Radiators are one of those things…
We mostly know what we mean when referring to clothes that fit. All other considerations aside, if your clothes physically don’t fit your body, they simply don’t work for you in any way that matters. But thinking about it more deeply, there are other ways that your clothes might not fit even if size is not a problem. A certain pair of sunglasses might not fit your carefully-crafted image. The…
When we finished our extension last year it made our home so lovely. But, it also had a knock on effect that it left us with a lot more jobs that needed doing. Firstly, the garden was a mess from the extension rubbish. The lawn had died and because the garden was being used in a completely different way – as part of it was now taken up with the…
Last Christmas was a bit of a flop for us. We were halfway through our extension being built and work had to stop for three weeks due to different offices being closed and issues with our steel joists. We had a Christmas surrounded by dust, with dust sheets taped everywhere and with just one festive corner in the lounge. We disappeared to our lovely in-laws for as long as we…
We moved into our house seven years ago and our bedroom has always been the lowest priority. Back in 2014 we painted it, we got new curtains as well as a new bed and we moved our home office into our bedroom too. But, since having our extension and moving my work space downstairs we realised that our room needed work. The carpet was in terrible condition and we had…
