REVEAL: Our Modern 1930s Kitchen Extension Client Project & How to Design Yours!
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We’ve just completed another Hove renovation – and I’m bursting to share some sneak peeks with you!
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3 costly mistakes to avoid if you’re renovating in 2024
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If only I knew!! The 3 things to make sure you avoid if you’re planning a renovation.
Read MoreOur Living Room Design Revealed: What we WISH we knew & How to renovate yours
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Our living room renovation from start to finish: Is this even the same room?! 😱 Also, I have some reassuring design advice to level up your look & future proof your living room!
Read MoreHOWDENS VS IKEA: Why we turned down an IKEA kitchen for Howdens
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Discover why we chose Howdens Kitchens over IKEA in our comprehensive comparison, including factors like quality, design, price, and installation process.
Read MoreDitching our kitchen extension plans – Do we regret it 5 years on?
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One of the most read stories from our 1930s renovation was about our decision to DITCH our extension last minute (after spending thousands on it!) But do we regret it now?? You might be surprised…
Read MoreHow long does a renovation actually take?
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Today we’re getting nitty gritty on how long our renovation took so that you can go into your renovation with your eyes open
Read MoreOur Completely Honest Safestyle Windows Review
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This our Safestyle windows review who we chose to replace our front bay and office window. When we moved into our 1930s house back in 2016, one of the inconvenient truths flagged in our survey was that we would need to install new UPVC bay windows at some point fairly soon (in fact, most of the windows needed replacing). Read more…
Read MoreSanding floorboards - Can I just remove the carpets and sand the old pine floorboards?
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Come and take a look at our opinion on sanding pine floor boards
Read MoreOur Home Office Design – Before + After! | Office ideas
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Are you ready? After a whole year of planning, the Fifi McGee HQ is finished! Come on in 😍
Read More#FifiMcGee Office – Part 2: The progress
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Take a look at the office progress so far – we’re so pleased with how it’s developing!
Read MoreCreating a DIY Gas Box Cover Planter
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Sometime you have tricky problems to solve and may times it’s easier to do it yourself. Check out my DIY gas box cover planter.
Read MoreOur driveway transformation | Removing garden to lay driveway paving | Driveway Ideas
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Thinking about laying a new driveway? Here’s how we renovated the exterior of our house, laying a brand new driveway, from start to finish. It’s packed with driveway ideas to help your project.
Read More10 of our favourite house renovation before & after shots
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Welcome to our house and ‘work-in-progress’ renovation project. We’re currently 90% the way through the mammoth task of dragging an extremely dated 1930s semi-detached house in Sussex kicking and screaming into the 21st century! Take a look at our best bits…
Read MoreNew Reno Project! Introducing this 1930s detached fixer upper (Before shots + Early ideas)
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We’ve just scored this incredible 1930s detached renovation project which we can’t wait to share with you. This house is going to be TRANSFORMED!
Read MoreOur 1930s front door (Before + After)
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We get so many lovely comments about our front door on Instagram that we thought it was about time we revealed how it used to look…
Read MoreOur new kitchen diner Bereco window
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After our kitchen renovation in 2017 we still had one small job left to complete: the external window! Here we document the process of installing our new window.
Read MoreOur Master Bedroom Renovation – Before + After
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You ready to see how ugly this room was before? Here’s a complete step-by-step. How we renovated our dated master bedroom into the room of our dreams…
Read MoreLightwave switches: A review of smart electrics for the home
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We decided to go the whole hog in our mission to create the most optimal waking up scenario. Check out what we came up with when we installed smart electrics in our bedroom
Read MoreFitting our brand new parquet flooring | Our 1930s house renovation
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We recently had engineered wood parquet flooring fitted to our bedroom renovation. Here we divulge the costs, design choices and the full installation. If you’re considering fitting parquet floors, read this first!
Read MoreOur new UPVC bay windows install | 1930s house renovation
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When we moved into our 1930s house back in 2016, one of the inconvenient truths flagged in our survey was that we would need to install new UPVC bay windows at some point fairly soon (in fact, most of the windows needed replacing).
Our surveyor quoted about £10K to replace the front windows 🤯
…but luckily we negotiated the price of the property before we exchanged and managed to get that knocked off the price 👍
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