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The big day approaches, the day when our plumber comes back to connect the pipes, fit a shower mixer tap and turn the water on so we can was...

There is absolutely no point in showing here a picture of the en-suite shower room which is now missing from our bedroom, obviously, because...

Not for the first time in our lives have we started life in a new home by renovating the bathroom. In fact it has happened too often to coun...

After weeks of dodging rain showers as we tried to focus on jobs around the garden, enduring the frustration of starting one job then rushin...

There are a couple of expressions people might use after moving home and looking around the house properly for the first time. We might say ...

The longest and most challenging of the tasks on our ToDo list is finally ticked. Job done! That is not to say that there is no single piece...

Mahonia is a large genus of woody evergreen shrubs  named by British botanist Thomas Nuttall to honour Bernard McMahon, a colonial nurseryma...

We turn the key and the door to our new home opens smoothly. Some might be tempted to go for the over-the-threshold carry but we have alread...