I'm a little in love with Twitter this week for helping me find a wonderfully preserved cast iron Scotia fireplace for our new guest bedroom. The chimney breast lost it's original fireplace long before we moved in, as you can see above where the sad looking desk sits in front of it, but the room... Continue Reading →
After all the mud and mess we've got to a point of making things look smooth again, at least in the garage which you can see above, but making the decision caused me a bit of a dilemma. The original specification throughout the extension ( garage, utility and kitchen) was for a solid concrete floor,... Continue Reading →
Feels like massive progress as we see the MOT stone going down on top of the reduced depth earth oversite within the garage walls. I always find the building process endlessly fascinating and being part of it all unfolding at Moregeous HQ is ace! Missy Builder Cat clearly feels the same way, clamped to my... Continue Reading →
After 36 hrs in London away from home/site/chaos, I'm back and thrown right back into a mad week. The original kitchen which straddled the main house and the West Wing has now completely gone, partly as half was demolished when the West Wing was knocked down, and now this week as the ceiling to the... Continue Reading →
It's been a long old week and I've been a bit lax on the blogging front but listen, if I haven't got time to shower, I haven't got time to type - eeeeewww stinky! Thank heavens some pals went on holiday today and were kind enough to leave us their house keys - tonight it's... Continue Reading →
Realised today that I'm totally missing a trick and have this DoUpDiary building site malarkey completely wrong. What was I thinking? It's not a negative, soul destroying mud field, it's a potential gold mine! Artist Olafur Eliasson has just opened Riverbed at the Denmark's Louisiana Museam of Modern Art and I quote A surface of... Continue Reading →
So you get a dry May. A dry June. A dry July. You start site works and what do you get - the wettest August ever! I now have a garden mud bath of trenches, holes, rocks and rubble as the lads have endeavoured to find what exactly is happening with our original and quite... Continue Reading →
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