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Category: Home Improvement

Our new kitchen; installing the flooring

As you may be aware, we’ve just had a new kitchen installed in our house. We’ve done away with a horrible galley kitchen and installed an open-plan kitchen diner, which is much more suitable for modern, family life.

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Our new kitchen; flooring focus

Over recent weeks I have written regular updates as our kitchen refurbishment project has progressed. This week I’m going to do something different and focus on one element of the project; the flooring. This is a very significant part of the new kitchen for two reasons. Firstly, as the pictures below show, the flooring in

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Our new kitchen, week three; massive progress

The past week has seen some rapid progress in our kitchen. No longer is it an empty shell of a room, it now features a hob and oven, functional sink and some of the units are in place. There’s a lot to do, but things are taking shape and the end is in sight. This

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An experiment with bunk beds and sharing a bedroom

Our kitchen improvement project has had some unforeseen consequences. Based on the fact our kids have happily shared a bedroom for the past few weeks while the work has been going on, we are going to take a leap into the unknown, install bunk beds and get them to share a room permanently. This is

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Tips for approaching DIY home improvement

Every home improvement project is different. It could be something as simple as touching up cracks on mouldings, or something as complex as rebuilding the whole kitchen. And of course, there are many projects that fall somewhere in between these examples. But for most any home improvement project that you’re attempting to take on yourself,

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