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Oct 23, 2012 • Well, the budget was tight for this room, but we got there. By using our imagination (and reusing plenty of bits and bobs lying around the place), we turned our tiny study into a botanical bolt hole. Tell me what you think! (And scroll to the end for a breakdown of our costs.) ...
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Oct 19, 2012 • Comments Closed I finally got around to emailing Jules at Ikea Hackers the other day with a picture of our Edland bedside table turned chic bathroom cabinet. I heart Ikea Hackers, and regularly raid it for ideas. To check it out (and see our guest post!), click here.
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Oct 17, 2012 • Comments Closed While Obama and Mitt were arguing up a storm last night, I called time on our own furious debate here on renoVoter. I got busy counting the votes (well, my computer did) and there was one clear winner: forget those space and safari schemes, our study is going to be a botanic bolthole. I’ve already cracked...
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Oct 5, 2012 • Comments Closed In between sanding and painting and plastering and scraping, husband and I recently found the time for a trip to French market Les Puces. On the outskirts of Paris, this massive market stretches across seven hectares and has literally thousands of stalls, with goods ranging from fine art to secondhand DVDs. We were there...
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Sep 27, 2012 • Despite husband’s hankering to use his yellow paint again, our front door is now dark grey, thanks to the latest renoVote. And it looks pretty good, if I do say so myself. Saying that, I might just be feeling ecstatic that the horrible red-wood door is a thing of the past. In a rare example...
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Sep 21, 2012 • Well, our swift and simple makeover at No 1 has almost come to an end. Having finished the four main rooms (kitchen, bathroom, master bedroom and lounge), we only had to overhaul the second bedroom and utility room to get one step closer to a much-needed rental income. Luckily for us, neither...
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Sep 3, 2012 • Comments Closed When it came to overhauling the living room at No 1, there was no time to lounge around (I’m here all week). Due to “running out of money” constraints, we left the fireplace surround where it was, opting to paint the tiles rather than rip them out. This time I learnt from my...
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Sep 1, 2012 • Pretty Things isn’t really the place for a food review, but I’m popping Pie Sisters in Georgetown, Washington, on Renovoter as much for its design as for its deliciousness. With its industrial chic interior (husband and I love us some bare bricks), blackboards, use of typography and reclaimed wooden bars, it’s a great place...
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Aug 28, 2012 • Comments Closed If the kitchen is the heart of the home, No 1 needed a bypass. The kitchen/diner was a big room, but its cabinets were old and broken, and the boiler impeded the only real preparation space. Our first task was to rip everything out, including the carpet (I’m going to start one of...
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Aug 15, 2012 • Comments Closed The bathroom at No 1 hadn’t been upgraded in decades, and it showed. Despite having been lived in only a year before, it featured a cracked old tub, bakerlite toilet and grimy sink. But it was already upstairs at least, meaning half the battle had already been won, or so we told ourselves. Only catch...
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Aug 3, 2012 • The master bedroom was our first stop at No 1. The previous owner must have been a lover of big dogs, as there were claw marks that reached almost two-thirds up the walls (at least, I hope they were a lover of big dogs). To really set the animal theme off, there was also a...
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Aug 1, 2012 • Apparently renovating No 9 was just not keeping us busy enough, because a few months ago husband and I headed to another auction and came away with a two-up two-down. Located in a good area of Plymouth, No 1 was prime renting-out material (or so we hoped!). But before we could ask anyone to move...
