Whilst down at Clerkenwell Design Week, my inbox pinged with an intriguing invite, especially for a girl planning events and pop ups at the soon to be finished Moregeous Mansions. Meeting like minded people is a super positive way of keeping focused and keeping your renovation weary spirits up. It sounded to me like Sommer... Continue Reading →
Blocked Loos = Landlord Boo Hoo’s!!
What you don't want as you're packing for a much needed weekend away from renovation chaos and looking forward to hot water, bathrooms and cooking for twenty people - seriously, I do consider the latter a special treat - is a call from a tenant with a blocked loo. As a landlord you don't get... Continue Reading →
Review: El Gato Negro, Manchester
Working hard on building Moregeous Mansions means cutting back on restaurant trips & travel and I hugely miss the interior inspiration which only comes from getting out and about. The internet is all very well, but good interiors touch your senses in other ways than simply the visual. A picture doesn't allow you to feel... Continue Reading →
#71 Top Tips When Fixing A Suspended Timber Floor
Well, that's a seriously big job ticked off for two rooms! The original plan was for builders to take up the all the floor boards of the living and dining room, hoist up the joists, re-build the internal leaves of brick work and re-secure the full timber floor, but with it being the type of back-breaking... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary#70 Floor Collapse Imminent!
Gazing at my lovely, neat new joists in the extension, it's very tempting to pointedly ignore our reno-hell-section but those ignoring days are coming to an abrupt end as we start to get to grips with the old bit of the house. Here is my living room prepped for the forthcoming festivities:Suffice to say that as you... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary #67: Taking It From The Top….
Where would you lay your head? At the very top of Moregeous Mansions sits the daddy dormer, looking out onto the new half of the house we've just re-built, i.e. from the window you can see in the picture above on the left. Our view in above is from the hallway door entrance. It's a... Continue Reading →
Review – Lakeland Microwave Multi-steamer
Since ripping out our kitchen about a year ago, I've missed many things. Padding down in a morning to make a juice, or him a brew... being able to wash up in a normal sink with hot water - oh the luxury!... scrambling eggs... pan-frying a chicken breast... and something as simple as being able... Continue Reading →