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Gracie House: June 2011
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Updates on our first house. Exciting stuff! So we've finally got to a painting stage throughout most of the house. As we now have tenants for September, and they kindly offered to help paint, it's only fair that I let them choose the colours. I am incredibly happy though. They look great. The front bedroom is now 'dusted damson' which I had my reserves about, but is lovely on. The hallway has had its second coat of buttermilk ands looking lovely for it. I ache all over but it's totally worth it. This sou...
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Gracie House: We won't be living here...
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Updates on our first house. Exciting stuff! We won't be living here. Well, it turns out we aren't going to be living in our first house. This sounds like it's really bad news, but honestly, it isn't! So now it's the final push to try and get the house finished before they have to move in September. Matt, whose idea it was to start this blog, hasn't really posted much, but he has done LOADS of work, so I'll get him to update as soon as it's summer and he has some free time. We wont be living here.
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Gracie House: New taps
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Updates on our first house. Exciting stuff! So the kitchen sink decided to stop producing hot water, and the lovely man from NPower said it had something to do with the taps. So we bought some fancy new ones. Kind of space age, and I wasn't sure if I liked them at first, but their growing on me (as much as a tap can after you've seen a £450 brushed chrome tap with a Brita water filter built in). 22 October 2013 at 07:26. Im Heather and I was hoping you would be able to answer a question about your blog!
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Gracie House: May 2011
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Updates on our first house. Exciting stuff! The plan had been to lay parquet floor upstairs too, as we had loads of it, but unfortunately it wasn't quite right. For a start it cost us a lot more (money and time) to adhere, sand and varnish the downstairs floors than we had projected. Secondly it would be an absolute pain to take up again should anything need rewiring/replumbing. So we decided to go with laminate. Well actually we were donated some laminate. Which is a really nasty thorny tree. There's so...
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Gracie House: January 2012
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Updates on our first house. Exciting stuff! I know this isn't technically about our house (the one that we own), but about the school's house (the one that we live in), but as its DIY related I'm going to post it anyway, just because it fits. I've been wanting a chandelier for the bedroom for the longest time (basically since the day we moved in). Actually I want one for the dining room too, but one step at a time. Anyhow, I found the perfect one - and it was cheap! Anyway, I found this beauty in IKEA.
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Gracie House: Light fitting
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Updates on our first house. Exciting stuff! I know this isn't technically about our house (the one that we own), but about the school's house (the one that we live in), but as its DIY related I'm going to post it anyway, just because it fits. I've been wanting a chandelier for the bedroom for the longest time (basically since the day we moved in). Actually I want one for the dining room too, but one step at a time. Anyhow, I found the perfect one - and it was cheap! Anyway, I found this beauty in IKEA.
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Gracie House: April 2011
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Updates on our first house. Exciting stuff! So my first project was the kitchen. Actually quite liked the floor, cupboards and work surface, but the tiling had to go! The oven was also not great for me. It works, but it's gas and I personally believe it's impossible to bake anything evenly in a gas oven. In the meantime, I decided to get on with replacing those tiles! We found some really cheap and inoffensive black tiles in wilkos. So I began to sand away. Then I used a detail sander. Sanding was gettin...
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Gracie House: March 2012
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Updates on our first house. Exciting stuff! So the kitchen sink decided to stop producing hot water, and the lovely man from NPower said it had something to do with the taps. So we bought some fancy new ones. Kind of space age, and I wasn't sure if I liked them at first, but their growing on me (as much as a tap can after you've seen a £450 brushed chrome tap with a Brita water filter built in). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Designed by Wordpress Web Hosting. Converted by Falcon Hive.
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Gracie House: September 2011
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Updates on our first house. Exciting stuff! So we've finally got some tenants in our lovely house. My sister and her family started to rent off us about a month ago. It's really exciting to have them living in the same town as us, but also so nice to see our house furnished. It looks great, so homely. It is still missing coving (whoops! And hopefully we'll get around to putting that up for them soon, but other than that, we love it! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Designed by Wordpress Web Hosting.
