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Homemade Kitchen Shelves
03 September 2013
Read moreFor the last ... really long time ... I've been working on a place to put the cookery books in the "new" kitchen. Since the kitchen was finished early in 2011, that's been quite a long-running project! It's finally finished though and I thought I'd share a bit about how I made it (not least because I get nagged about the lack of non-geeky posts on this site - you know who you are!)
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Basement Tanking Project
23 March 2011
Read moreAt one time I wrote a lot on this blog about houses, and this house in particular once we bought it 4 years ago. One major feature is that the basement kitchen floods fairly regularly, maybe 4 times a year? This is obviously not ideal however the structural work required to put it right was around 20% of the value of the house, and shortly after we bought the house the bottom dropped out of the UK property market so we couldn't borrow against the house.
Fast forward 4 years of cooking in wellies once in a while, and running down the stairs to check the basement every time it rains a lot (in Northern England, you can imagine this gets really old really fast). Actually even when it wasn't underwater, it was a pretty nasty kitchen, always damp and it had no heating so in winter it was whatever temperature it was outdoors. This sums it up: my mother's old dresser, standing on bricks to keep it out of the water
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Garage Clearance
28 July 2010
Read moreWhen we bought this house, three years ago, we also bought the contents of it, which did bring us some nice furniture but also brought a staggering amount of junk. While the house has slowly emerged from the chaos, the garage has remained basically full, including a jacuzzi bath, more …
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A Three-Year Old Home
31 May 2010
Read moreAt one time I wrote about little else than the house on this blog, but these days its a pretty rare occurrence. However this weekend marks three years since we bought this place and moved in, and it does begin to feel like a home. In fact the house is …
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New Office
04 January 2010
Read moreI haven't posted about the house for ages, mostly because I haven't been around enough to do much with this project at all! Some months ago (July to be precise) I moved out of the bedroom I use as an office here and into an attic, so we could redecorate …
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The Writing on the Wall
12 August 2009
Read moreI'm currently redecorating in the house and have moved my office up to the top floor temporarily - I like it up here but its a flight of stairs to the bathroom, two to answer the door and three to get a cup of coffee and I also have no wired …
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New Bedroom Curtains
13 July 2009
Read moreThis weekend I took some time to make some curtains for the bedroom. Since we bought the house we've had some rather unattractive and slightly broken metal blinds. The room was otherwise OK though and we just kind of moved into it and worked on the rest of the house …
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New Patio and Garden Gate
19 June 2009
Read moreThere haven't been any house updates for a while - because I haven't been here so haven't done anything! However we did realise earlier this year that we were never going to find the time to lay our own patio, we've been in the house two years now (can I get …
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House Update
02 April 2009
Read moreI haven't blogged about the house for a while, and since we had to tidy up at the weekend for my grandparents' visit, I thought a tidy house was a good time to take a few photos. When we first moved in, I blogged a lot about the house, and … -
A year and a day (or two)
09 June 2008
Read moreIt might not seem like a year since I announced a completed house purchase, but it is. A year and a few days in fact! Actually buying the house felt like a huge achievement, buying our first home took 9 months, cost a lot in surveyors fees and involved 3 …
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Baby Courgette Plants
01 June 2008
Read moreRecently my friend Deb, Leeds Geekup organiser and Ruby developer, gave me two baby courgette plants ... she even went so far to photograph me, slightly tipsy, leaving the pub to get the bus home:
I did get the plants home intact and planted them out. I was going to post …
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Nest Of Tables
13 May 2008
Read moreWe've been decorating the living room since what feels like forever, I'll post some proper pictures of it finished but here is a sneak preview of the photos I took of the new nest of tables that's been waiting for us to finish decorating for a few months. I finally …
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