New project alert! Our plans for our home office… revealed.

Fi’s turning the grand old age of 30, and in this post she’s looking back on the lessons learned in the last 10 years.

Thinking about laying a new driveway? Here’s how we renovated the exterior of our house, laying a brand new driveway, from start to finish. It’s packed with driveway ideas to help your project.

Welcome to our house and ‘work-in-progress’ renovation project. We’re currently 90% the way through the mammoth task of dragging an extremely dated 1930s semi-detached house in Sussex kicking and screaming into the 21st century! Take a look at our best bits…

We get so many lovely comments about our front door on Instagram that we thought it was about time we revealed how it used to look…

When you’re living in a renovation it can feel like your whole world is falling down around you. We look at some of the downsides and perhaps surprising upsides to living in a renovation.

Are you about to start renovating your house and looking for savvy ways to save money? Hiring an architectural technologist instead of an architect could be a good idea but isn’t right for everyone. So here’s a guide on what architectural technologists are, whether they’re right for you and how they could help you reduce your budget.

We decided to go the whole hog in our mission to create the most optimal waking up scenario. Check out what we came up with when we installed smart electrics in our bedroom

When we moved into our 1930s house back in 2016, one of the inconvenient truths flagged in our survey was that we would need to install new UPVC bay windows at some point fairly soon (in fact, most of the windows needed replacing).

Our surveyor quoted about £10K to replace the front windows 🤯

…but luckily we negotiated the price of the property before we exchanged and managed to get that knocked off the price 👍

It’s crazy just how much I’ve learned about bathroom layouts big and small that I knew nothing about when we were rushing to renovate our own bathroom all those years ago. They are one of the hardest projects to get right…

Are you in the middle of a renovation project and finding yourself overwhelmed with the list of consultants you need to hire? Don’t panic! We’re here to help you with our structural engineer guide on what services they do and at what cost.

In this guide, I want to share with you some proven home decoration tips that I practice daily to support those of you who are designing a room currently.

Neil and I bought our house in 2016. There it is in the photo above. Having never bought a fixer-upper before it's safe to say there were a lot of things we were completely blind to when we came to the house to view it.

If you're on the market for a fixer upper, or you think one day you'd like to do a renovation project and make a house completely your own, then there's a few points I've learned to look out for along the way.

In this guide, I want to share with you some proven home decoration tips that I practice daily to support those of you who are designing a room currently.

If you’re doing an architectural project, it’s very likely that you will at least talk to an architect at some point or another in the design process. However, the role and level of involvement of the architect can be different from one development to another depending on the size and client’s choices. If you’re wondering exactly what the role of the architect is, how much and what you should ask from them, here’s a little guide on what architects do.

If you are in the middle of a renovation project and are making significant changes to your house, chances are you will be needing a structural engineer. If you are unsure what their role is, here’s a guide to the structural engineer’s job and what you should expect from them.

Check out our DIY tools list. If you’re on the look out for tools for your DIY project check out what we used.

If you’re planning on renovating then a survey is a an absolute must. We’ve seen members of our community pull out of their property purchases due to the issues found in surveys. Today we speak to chartered surveyor Leo Horsfield for his advice to a potential renovator on getting a house survey done.

Is home renovation insurance actually required? That’s what we take a look at in this blog post.

Hiring a contractor? By making sure you ask the right questions, you can go into your project fully equipped and aware.