One of the toughest parts of renovating is deciding on layouts especially for things like the kitchen or kitchen extensions. Read our tips on how to visualise your ideas first.

We asked our community “How has Covid 19 effected your renovation?” and check out their responses…

In the first part of these blog posts we discussed managing the changes to home and work life throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Here we’ll cover some of the expected impacts if you’re renovating.

We’ve worked with tons of contractors in our time and we’re always learning about the best ways find reliable contractors. Here are some valuable lessons we’ve learned over the years that will help you get your project off the ground in trustworthy hands.

Since we moved into our house we have implemented some very useful storage solutions, many of these achievable by an unconfident DIY-er! Come on inside and let us show you a few hacks to achieve easy storage.

In this post we’re going to show you a couple of different options for getting the amazing tongue and groove cladding look in your room, one which is a bit of a hack!

Lots of our readers are renovating properties in need of a boiler upgrade and with many requests, we thought we’d share an honest review of our boiler, why we chose it, and where we positioned it in our house.

Condensation problems in your home or flat can be so frustrating. We’ve been there! In our old flat we had mould on walls, mould on clothes, and condensation on windows. Luckily we found some solutions to manage the problems.

Here’s a nifty open plan kitchen diner idea that we implemented. When you’re limited for kitchen wall space and can’t hang a radiator, kick space heaters (also known as plinth heaters) are the solution…

In this post we take a look at the top 10 renovation costs that could creep up on you during the renovation process.

A topic close to our hearts, we’ve gathered our top tips for an eco friendly renovation. So if you’re fixing up a house and you’re mindful of the environmental impact you’ll be having on the planet, read on…

We've had plenty of experience with lots of different paint brands, but in particular Valspar and Farrow and Ball, so if you’re trying to decide between the two, we want to give you a little bit of a heads up about what to expect from each paint brand.

In this post we share a list of mistakes that we made during the renovation of our 1930’s semi-detached house. Make sure to put on your cringe-protection suit as you venture into our quagmire of renovation face-palm!

Renovating a house might look glamorous, but dust can really get you down. After 2 years of dust, sweat and tears in our house we’d like to share a few tips we learned if you’re embarking on a reno too!

About to buy a house soon? Make it a fixer upper! We’re sharing all the reasons why it’s a must-do project…

In the last few years, we’ve researched ways to optimise our money as a couple, so that we could save for really important things like holidays, the house renovations, and saving for a house. So in this post, we thought we’d share some money saving tips to help you!

When it comes to budgeting for a house renovation, and predicting costs, it’s the one area we felt very confident in managing. I’ll tell you why…

The darker and darker it gets in the evenings, the less I can be bothered to clean when I get home from work. Are you the same? Read my cleaning tips for a 3 bed house…

For anyone embarking on a home renovation project up against hours (or more like days!) of researching products and brands ahead of them, I wanted to list the tried and tested suppliers we used for our Modern Farmhouse Kitchen Diner to hopefully help you make some faster choices :)

In this post I want to talk a bit more about the... I guess you could call it the 'engine' of the home – the boiler – the thing that powers hot water around our homes making them warm, cosy, damp-free and gives us the complete luxury of hot showers and baths, and what to do if you're concerned yours might one day break...