It's been a very long few months since we demolished half our home in August 2014. The old 'West Wing' section, once stables with living quarters above, and built to the side of the main house, was falling down, structurally unsound, damp and cold. Coupled with the main house becoming virtually uninhabitable - no heating,... Continue Reading →
I love getting personal recommendations for products, especially when the products are practical, affordable and make life easier! Whilst tweeting a few weeks ago about all the rigid insulation we have piled up at Moregeous Mansions to fit in our new timber frame dormers, I was told about a handy product called the Gap Tape,... Continue Reading →
Bit of a problem this last two weeks in that I've had two tenants give notice saying their flats are too cold. This distresses me a great deal, as we go to a huge amount of effort to ensure we have happy tenants, but in both these cases there are steps we'll be taking to... Continue Reading →
Whilst planning and designing Moregeous Mansions, I've been collecting old metal with the idea in mind to somehow melt it down and use it for furniture, combining it with the lumps and chunks of timber we have stored and drying ready for use post-build. I've seen lots of timber plus resin or timber plus glass... Continue Reading →
So..... did you all have a lovely Christmas? Can you guess where we spent it?! Yep, that's right, even during the holibobs I was up on the scaffolding with my nieces and nephew in our paper cracker hats 🙂 It was a big shock to them and my sister, who hadn't been to site since... Continue Reading →
Certain songs have been the soundtrack to our renovation so far. There's a special mention to Take That's These Days or as it's known here, Andy's pudding song - We're Gonna Live For Cheesecake, but my ear worm this weekend is Meghan Trainor's fabulous All About That Bass and I have my own version as the mammoth task of... Continue Reading →
How else could a lady builder spend her birthday when she has no kitchen to make delicious nibbles in, no bathroom to luxuriate & soak away her cares in and no living room to lounge lazily reading magazines and drinking fizz? Yep, of course, get up on a roof and cement in some lead flashing,... Continue Reading →
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