“Oh you are renovating… still” She said as she arrived, unannounced. She hadn’t gotten any further than our front steps, but the drop-saw, the pile of wood, the bucket of electrical wires and the cans of paint that ‘decorate’ our front veranda gave us away. “Yes, we are renovating… still.” “When will it be finished?” […]
What To Do With a Big Empty Wall?
We have this wall… It is a big, empty wall. It’s a big, empty wall that will never have much in the way of furniture in front of it, and it looks kinda of bare. But what do I do with my big, empty, kind of bare, wall? Do I hang three huge canvases? Could […]
Help Me With Fireplace Ideas
You know those ‘never ending renovations’ I used to bang on about? Well they are still going, they are just at a somewhat less interesting and exciting stage at the moment so I’ve not bothered to bore you all with them… until today. Today I need your help. I need your ideas and inspiration and […]
So Close To a Kitchen.
“What are you doing???” He’d sprung me standing in the new part of the house, alone, in the semi darkness, staring at our almost finished kitchen. “I’m just imagining… ” We are so close to having a finished kitchen…It may not look it from the photos but we are so very close. We are just […]
Kitchen Renovation Dilemmas
Help! We need to order our new kitchen cabinets so that my current wall-less, ceiling-less remnant of a kitchen can be ripped out and replaced with a shiny new kitchen, with shiny new appliances that actually work. It would be exciting if it wasn’t so damn difficult to make a decisions about something that costs […]
Our Current and Future Sleeping Arrangements Vlog!
A while back, when I suggested you all ask me a question, a couple of readers asked how we managed six people in a two bedroom house. More specifically, how do we fit myself and all three of my men into one room? Sharing the master bedroom with both my boys and my husband (though […]
The Never Ending Renovations
“When will the renovations be done?” If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me that question… Well, you know how it goes. It seems that I am either a saint, or a nutcase for putting up with renovating for so long. They (you know… the magical all knowing ‘they’) told me, back […]
What Would You Put in Your Dream Bedroom?
The photo above might not look like much to you, but to me it is full of potential… Potential walls! This ‘build your own house’ gig is a lesson in patience for me. It takes a long time to double the size of your house when you are doing pretty much all of it yourself, […]