Your children will be more excited about seeing the builders every morning than seeing you. You will gain about half a stone through eating convenience foods and takeaways. Your standards of ‘clean’ will reduce dramatically, although you will experience manic…
It’s finally worktop day…
Coping with building work and toddlers
Where am I right now? At my desk, writing the three homes features I have outstanding? Meticulously leafing through my collection of interiors magazines to find ideas to use in the new space downstairs? Painting the acres of new plaster…
The kitchen begins to take shape
It still takes a little imagination, but it’s starting to come together…
Goodbye back door
Ready and waiting for the doors and windows
There has been a little bit of a delay while the builders waited for the delivery of the new patio doors. They were finally delivered yesterday at 4.45pm, so today should be an exciting day.
Kitchen makeover: progress so far
Day 3: goodbye decorative arch
Day 1: goodbye wall
The twins and I have decamped to my mum and dad’s for the rest of the week, but the husband is sending me regular photographic updates from home to satisfy my control-freak instincts. Here’s the kitchen wall at the end…