Decluttering
When you’ve got kids, decluttering needs to be done regularly. Kids grow out of things, their tastes change, things wear out… And they keep acquiring…
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Project 365 2018 Week 2
Week 2 of Project 365 2018 and it occurs to me I may have some new readers who don’t know us. So, I’m Sarah, married…
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Decorating the spare room
The spare room is my office. It has a tiny window and is always full of washing. The bed is very comfy – I’ve slept…
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Time for redecorating
When we first moved into our house, over two and a half years ago, we decorated it all incredibly quickly. We got the keys on…
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Project 366 Week 8
The last week of February has been a pretty quiet one, with the kids back at school and me busy working at home. Here’s our…
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Project 366 Week 7
It’s half-term! We didn’t have anything planned, but it was still nice to have a break from school and particularly from the relentless round of…
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The new house – the final push
We’ve been in our not-so-new house now for over 18 months and we’ve changed so much in that time. We’ve dragged it from 1980s nightmare…
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Ensuite bathroom
We moved into our house 18 months ago. It was built in 1987 and had been lived in by the same elderly couple for 20…
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Smashing the kitchen wall down
Before we moved into our house, getting the kitchen done was my husband’s number one priority. The kitchen was, and is, a 1980s nightmare. I’m…
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Re-painting
Exactly one year ago today, on Tuesday 7th January, we got the keys to our new house. It was our dream house – spacious and…
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Scuffs on the paintwork
In my old house, I never noticed marked paintwork. I didn’t see where trainers had connected with skirting boards, chairs had collided with door frames,…
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Journey to a new house
It’s been a tough few weeks, but slowly, but surely, we’ve managed to transform a 1980s home to old people, cobwebs and dust, into a…
