Hey friends,Happy British Summer Time! Lately, I've been hard at work in the garden, preparing it for summer. The weather hasn't always cooperated, but it's a good workout and it feels like you're accomplishing something compared with just going for...

Hey friends,Apologies for my absence. Our son started daycare recently and it's just been a onslaught of illnesses in our household. Worse still, the nursery bars sick kids while continuing to charge for their place despite it being where the kid cau...

Hey friends,After the nursery I'm not quite ready to jump into another big project but doing something handy makes me happy so here are a few low cost tasks I've been doing around the house and garden.🪥 Refurbishing An Old StoolThis stool once belon...

Hey friends,Coming up this week:The finished photos of the nurseryHow I prepped to make hanging the door easyTwin slot shelving with clothes railsMy method of drilling holes in brick (step by step)Motorised blinds - one for you techiesFinal thoughts...

Hey friends,🧶 Laying CarpetPros for carpet:It's cosy. How many days in the UK are a higher temp than we'd heat our homes to where it would be nicer to have something cooler underfoot? I couldn't find the answer but even here in the south-east it's p...

Hey friends,🎨 PaintingThere are some lovely wallpapers out there for nurseries and children's rooms...or adult rooms for that matter but having taken so much of the it down, I'm not keen on putting more up. Abi, who's quite artsy, considered paintin...

Hey friends,😢 Plastering Gone Wrong2022 was pretty good for upping my DIY skills. I learnt a lot doing the bathroom, became semi capable at simple electrics and added plastic pipe plumbing to my skillset.Should I learn to plaster? I've thought about...

Happy New Year friends!I hope you had a great Christmas break. For us it was the first time in three years we've spent it with family which was lovely. As good was getting the lad in his bedroom before year's end. We're a bit behind in these newslett...

Hey friends,Moving onward, this room has 2 new plasterboard walls, two plaster on brick walls and a lath and plaster ceiling.If the ceiling and brick walls had been in good condition I may have considered taping & jointing the plasterboard then p...

Hey friends,Here's where we were at the end of the last email...if you'd had the chance to read it yet.My next job was to attach the plasterboard to the stud wall. I think you'll all know how it's done so I'll just point out a few things:For a dividi...