When we last visited the story of our house, we had just uncovered soft, wet, mouldy floorboards in the dining room. Remember? I cannot begin to tell you how utterly sick I felt when I saw this. From the day we walked into the house, I felt horribly overwhelmed. I like to be in control of my situation, and I like to feel...

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Over the last 16 months, if I had a pound for every time someone saw our house, or heard about what we've been doing and went 'oh, didn't you get a survey done?' I would have been rich enough to pay for someone else to take over absolutely every part of the work on our house. I don't know why people think this...

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Its been a long time. So much has changed in my house since I last posted. Im still trying to keep things in a vague chronological order. Instagram has many, many spoilers of where we are at currently, though! Today I wanted to talk about scope creep. I spent a year or so working with a business change team made up of project...

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Whilst everyone else gorged on Easter eggs and roast dinners, we spent Easter Weekend cleaning. Armed with Zolflora, sugar soap, Fairy liquid and my personal favourite de-greaser, Vanish Oxy Action, we cleaned everything. We went through about 3 pairs of rubber gloves each and countless black bags. The house smelled horrible, all full of smoke and like nobody cared about it. Walls,skirting boards,ceilings...

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...it's a very good place to start, apparently. I wasn't sure I'd ever make this blog post but being honest, my reader numbers are low anyway and one day, in the very distant future, I will be able to look back on this without shuddering, crying, or being overcome with The Rage, and in these troubled times where we are spending money like...

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