Bedroom for a Boy

When we first moved to our rambling old farmhouse, there was one bedroom that hadn’t been inhabited for decades.  The plaster was crumbling off the walls and the ceiling was sagging, but it’s proportions were stunning with beautiful wooden floorboards, a fireplace and shuttered window looking out onto the garden. It was known as the…

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Kitchen Renovation

When you buy a house that is a ‘doer-upper’ one of the most exciting and most daunting rooms has to be the kitchen.  It has to be the most expensive too.  You don’t want to get it wrong and much has to be considered.  Not just the ‘golden triangle’ of sink, fridge, cooker, but how…

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