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We've been whittling though our to do list this we
We've been whittling though our to do list this week. Lots of odd and essential jobs that aren't that big but get us ready for next big stuff. Hopefully we're nearly plaster ready 🤞. We even got to position (well the wiring for them!) our bedside lamps.

We bought these 9+ months ago before we discovered major issues with our gable end. We clearly thought we'd be onto fixture and fittings almost immediately 😂😭 we didn't even unwrap them at the time so nice to see we still like 'em!

About there will do? Maybe a bit more to the right...

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Just because it's our favourite view 💕

#Period
Just because it's our favourite view 💕

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It’s been 11 months since we completed and picke
It’s been 11 months since we completed and picked up the keys for this place. It was just days into the first lockdown, and there were rumours that completions would be stopped, so we really weren’t sure if our agonising wait to complete would even happen. A builder we lined up to renovate the place pulled out of the project. Anders was quite heavily pregnant and we really didn’t know where the next weeks/months/year were really going to take us. We only booked our storage unit for four months initially, thinking we’d be in quicker than that anyway. We were complete novices to the idea of renovation and has no real idea just how much work it would take — we certainly felt out of our depths in terms of DIY. 

It’s so surreal to think just how much has, and at the same time, hasn’t happened since.

Managing a build from a far, getting socially distanced quotes from trades, endless emails and calls, not being able to see progress when you want. Measurements scribbled here and there. Endless chasing, delays due to Covid-19, web chats, “sorry we’re not doing home visits yet”, “I’ll have to check with my colleague [who is normally sat next to me in the office but is now wfh] and call you back”. Out of Stock. Shop temporarily closed. Going to B&Q for a click and collect for the first time. Even trying to access the website back then. It has been so tough. Tougher than any TV show ever portrays. I can’t believe that in June we could be living here AND life will be familiar again. It’s gonna be one hell of a housewarming! 

In all the noise of this year, we forgot to really take in the seasons of the house. We were really taken back, standing in the kitchen on Sunday and realising how the sun hits the room. 🌞

Here’s to a hesitant but hopeful hurrah, that maybe just maybe long hugs and real life chats are coming to our kitchen soon. 🤞🤞 #CuddlesInTheKitchen #DandyHomeReno

Another day, another door!

Top tip: if you intend
Another day, another door!

Top tip: if you intend on sharing your Reno journey make sure you get a before shot of just about everything.  Because we don’t have one of this wall and it’s had so much work! Doh! Previously, it was three windows and a back door.. you could only open from the inside (no lock mechanism!!!). 

And it’s been transformed and finished with some lovely new doors - that incidentally went on their own journey and arrived three weeks later than the windows 🙃 thank goodness the place is officially watertight now though, we can finally do so many jobs that were on hold.

Dan is at the house today absorbing all the info he can from our builders (socially distanced, of course!) and tomorrow we’ll both be there getting stuck in. Apparently the scaffolding is finally down too 💫

Oh and we also have another mood board live over on our guide tab!

Phew! That was a lot of info.

Happy Saturday 💛

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Dan + pancake day = Dancakes.

psa: It’s a dinne
Dan + pancake day = Dancakes.

psa: It’s a dinner plate for reference 🥞🥓🍁🍗

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It may have melted away but glad we got to see our
It may have melted away but glad we got to see our first snow at the house. Made our garden look wonderful too - amazing what a blanket of snow can hide.

We spent our weekend fitting crawl boards in the loft. Not very photogenic but very necessary. It was bloomin’ freezing too 🥶🥶

Now, if only we could convince our scaffolders to take down our scaffolding. Can’t wait to see the house without it.

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