How to save £100+ on installing a gallery rail! Click here to skip down to ‘What I used’ to shop the links > Living in an 1840s townhouse is all very romantic… …until you realise there’s absolutely nowhere to put anything. Everyone imagines grand staircases and period features (which, to be fair, we do have), …
When embarking on the adventure of buying an old house, especially one that needs significant renovation, the importance of a thorough survey cannot be underestimated! We knew this when buying our 1845 late Georgian/early Victorian house in Dover and realised from various surveys that our renovation budget was likely to get eaten up pretty quickly, …
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My first official post for the new house! This week, we went to see an amazing, five-storey house. I’d previously seen it a couple of weeks ago, on Zoopla and Rightmove during one of my frequent obsessive house browsing sessions. But when I called the estate agents, they said the open house was already booked …