Renovation Stories

Who doesn’t love a renovation story? Here you will find all our renovation projects and how we turn a house into a home.

We Moved to a Beach House! A Quick Tour of Our Exciting New Renovation

7 months. 7 long months since we originally put in the offer of our new house, we can finally call…

Our Kitchen Design – The Full Kitchen Tour 2021

Continuing on from last week with our house tour before we moved (I’m writing this sat in our old house,…

Our Living Room Transformation – House Tour 2021

Our living room has seen quite a lot of changes since we first renovated. Finally, we exchanged on our house…

How I Would Improve My Kitchen (If It Didn’t End in Divorce)

The kitchen. The heart of the home. Where I like to think I’m the next Nigella but am often found…

A House Tour of Our Family Home

Are you ready for a house tour? Finally, this week we FINALLY finished decorating our house to a point where…

10 Clever Under Stairs Storage Ideas and Inspiration

The space under the stairs can provide key storage space, a small office area, laundry, bar or cellar! Here are some of my favourite under the stairs and hallway storage inspirational ideas.

Playful Décor for a Boy’s Bedroom

Why are boy’s bedrooms so difficult to decorate? After 3 years of planning and changing my mind, I am finally happy with my Son’s jungle themed bedroom.

A Bold Revamp of our Small Bathroom

The small bathroom, or downstairs bathroom, or shower room. Whatever you want to call it, it probably is the most…

10 Ways to Makeover Your Bathroom on a Budget

10 quick and easy ways to update your bathroom on a budget

How to Hang Wallpaper for Beginners – A Quick and Easy Guide

A simple and easy guide to putting up wallpaper in your home. How to prepare, what tools you will need, how to deal with tricky areas like plug sockets and corners and what wallpaper to choose.

How To Paint a Bath and Give Your Bathroom the Wow Factor

A bit like kitchens, bathrooms can be extremely pricey to update or completely renovate. When we renovated our house, we completely gutted our bathroom and started again as the bath was leaking, there were holes in the walls to the point that you could see through to outside world and a lot of the tiles were either chipped or falling off…

How To Stencil Your Decking and Transform It!

Adding a decking in the garden is such a great way of creating a social space for your family, providing a great extra living area for the warmer months. The problem in the UK is our weather! We created our decking space back in April 2017 and within two years it had become dirty, damp and unsightly.

Our Complete Dream Bathroom Renovation: The Cost and Floor Plan

What are the first rooms you look at when you are viewing a property? I always make a beeline for the kitchen and bathroom and if I’m happy with them, the rest will do. I feel that we (me) were a little blindsided by the size of our kitchen when we viewed the house we currently live in and didn’t really take into consideration the size of the other rooms and in particular the bathroom