I have honestly never seen anything as ridiculous as this in my whole life. Speaking as a lady builder who spent months on frozen roof slates last winter, this daft woman isn't an artist, she's just another attention seeker using the same old cheap method to grab headlines. How in God's name are female builders and roofers... Continue Reading →
Luxury Student Living – A Good Preparation For Life?
Note: I wrote & posted this in Sept 2015 but for some reason it's just popped up now, weird! Blimey, it's not exactly the Young Ones is it? Those of you old enough to remember the grimy squats of the past will be a tad shocked at these images of luxury Leeds student living replete... Continue Reading →
Renovation Recipes: Pimp My Paella With Lemon Roast Chicken Supreme
A hobless house is pretty much a paella free zone, needing as you do the requisite large shallow pan and low simmering heat to create aromatic rice crispy at the edges, fat and juicy in the middle and flavoured with saffron, seafood, chorizo and chicken. I miss not being able to make my own from scratch... Continue Reading →
Our Edwardian Baths – A Scary Amount of Halloween DIY!
Regular readers will know all about our Baths and the hard work put in by Team LWB over the last (wow is it really?!) nearly three years. None of us really knew what would happen when we took over the running of this magnificent but rather dilapidated and poorly cared for building in June this year. Though... Continue Reading →
Renovation Recipes: A Bit of Bol
Oh dear. I'm cheating. But you know what, living on a building site and working full time sometimes means resorting to a little help. I'm more than happy to share my cheatin' with you to help you through the same renovating craziness! On a day when I'm already in accounting hell cooking up the books,... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary #66: A Touch of Porch Stripping
Let's repaint the porch. Such an innocuous phrase. Just a Sunday afternoon job, you might think. Yep..... not here! Seven days later and I must confess that he's done all the stripping whilst I've been off working on client jobs and styling for ad campaigns and the like. One of us drew the short straw,... Continue Reading →
Renovation Recipes: Crunchy Apple, Bacon & Kale Salad
Surrounded by the business accounts today I felt like I needed some mid-morning nutrition. I'm not a big one for breakfasts and can easily get up at 8 and not eat til gone 4 - sometimes I've to be prodded into eating during the day! This is no good when doing physical or brain taxing... Continue Reading →