Have you ever done a job that you’ve always known needs doing & once you’ve started it you wonder why you’d left it so long? Well the removal of the ceiling in the old bedrooms was definitely one of them jobs

Dear Reader, let this be a lesson to you and serve as a warning. The desires of this man are simple, give me food and give me heat. Put those things together and give me hot food and as Dawn (now my wife) found out you’ll have me forever. Living where we do in France we tend to get power

During the dismantling of the cow shed we removed 10 timbers that have stood for years. These are approximately 17cm wide by 8.5cm deep by 423cm long (all are approx. as these all vary a little) and we aren’t going to reuse them for the foreseeable future and would rather someone get some use of them. Unfortunately I can’t tell

With the groundwork already done by Dawn & her Dad (Eric) (in this post : HERE) it was now time to get the tiles removed, the roof opened up and wooden beams taken down so we can really start to see the potential in the space we then have and that was a job for me and my Dad! Here

When we bought they house the first thing we decided to do while we designed the renovation was to remove the wall in the bedroom area’s that created two rather small bedrooms. While in the longer term this new room will be removed altogether for now we want to create a temporary bedroom of a decent size and there was

Buoyed by the success of the chimney cleaning Dad and I couldn’t help but get inquisitive and want to see what was behind the 70′s wood cladding. After all I’m 34 and I was a kid the last time this style was in. We’d initially decided to wait until the morning to do any more but one thing lead to