Since I last posted on here Boris put us all into national lockdown and I’ve spent a good week or so feeling sick. 🤮😷🙈 Good start to 2021! Before that though, we did have a couple of productive days getting this projector screen back up! I bought it for Grants birthday (along with a projector) about 5 years ago now 😱 but sadly it’s spent most of it’s life stored away in the attic. Basically, it was a hugely premature purchase for this space 🙈 but here we are - 5 years later and it’s in situ! This is the largest room of our basement and will become Grants “isolation booth” as he likes to call it - definitely not a man cave 😂 - isolation booth, k? Think wing backs, antique decor, retro games consoles, and basically some kind of quirky underground bar vibe. It will be the more “fun” part of the basement, as the other areas will definitely have more practical uses - but we felt this would be a great chill out space, somewhere for Grants never-ending collection of old tech 🙈 and hopefully provide some fun stuff to do should we ever host gatherings again. 😅 Clearly the room still needs a lot of work, but we’re slowly moving in down here... cos impatient and all that 😉🤷🏻♀️ #basementrenovation #cellarrenovation #victoriancellar #basementcinema #basementroom #renovationprogress #projectorscreen #cinemaroom #undergroundhome #quirkyspaces #quirkyinteriors #lovemyrenovation #renovationproject #renovationstyle #victorianrenovation #victorianhouse #periodproperty #myvictorianhome #victorianterrace #victorianrenovation #periodhome #renovationjourney #myreno #cellarconversion 
Basement Vibes! 👀 I’m not going to dwell on the shite job the electricians did, instead I’m going to celebrate what we’ve been working towards for the last year - LIGHT and POWER in the basement! 💡⚡️ We’ve lived in this house for nearly 7 years now and so far, the basement has been sat underground completely unused, dark, powerless, only providing storage to random bits of wood and leftover DIY supplies. On a typical year, my only need to enter the basement has been to collect meter readings and I’d always have to do this via torchlight, which would almost always result in being hit in the face with a cobweb along the way. 😂 At the beginning of 2020 we decided it was time to strip back the those walls, open up the original fireplace, install a window, clean up the floor and finally, we now have POWER down here too. It means we can actually now use this part of the house and all of sudden it’s almost like our house just got bigger! 🙈 We are really lucky to have this space and it’s going to be SO useful in time, allowing us to regain the attic bedroom from the chaos of DIY tools and also regain the hallway which has been used as the most impractical office set-up you ever did see. I’ll share our exact plans for the whole basement soon BUT hurray for power and light! What a novelty 😂 I hope this picture gives you an idea of the kind of vibes we’re heading for down here 😉 #basementrenovation #basementdesign #victoriancellar #victorianbasement #cellarrenovation #diyrenovation #basementlighting #basementstyle #quirkyspaces #quirkyinteriors #styleitdark #roughluxe #roughluxeinteriors #undergroundhome #periodproperty #periodhome #victorianstyle #industrialinteriors #industrialhome #interiordesign #rustichomedecor #rustichome #rusticinteriors #lovemyrenovation #myrenostyle #renovationproject #renovationhome 
Happy New Year! 🎉 Unless you won the euro millions and buggered off to your own private tropical island for the whole of 2020, I think we can all agree, the last 12 months were not those of the greatest year. 🙈 If you’ve struggled through 2020, I hope the next 12 months are a bloody huge improvement for you. I know a new year doesn’t mean an immediate change overnight, but hopefully next year we’ll all be celebrating the end to a very different year! 🤞🏻 I also feel like we need to say a huge thank you to all the key workers and those in the NHS who kept the country going throughout the year, facing some of the most challenging times - so thank you! Here’s hoping 2021 is a better year for us all and wishing you a happy new year! 🥂 (Photo of our Christmas tree because I realised I never actually shared a snap this year 🤷🏻♀️) #newyear #2021 #myfestivehome #christmastree #christmasdecor #christmashome #myhomethischristmas #myhomedecor #newyearshome #christmasinteriors #christmasdecorations #myhomestyle #interiorstyle #interiorstyling #howihome #whereilive #thisoldhouse #periodhome #periodliving #victorianhome #victorianstyle #victorianterrace 
Exciting basement-related news! ⚠️⚠️ By the end of tomorrow we will hopefully have POWER in the basement!💡⚡️✨ It’s been a long 12 months of saving, spending the savings, then saving all over again 😉 but today we have the electricians in and soon we will finally be able to move forward! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I can’t wait to finaaallly show you all the lights, which we started buying back in January bit by bit 😂 and generally just be able to show you the whole space in one go without having to relocate the single spot light between each room. 😂 I’m just a little bit excited!! I asked Grant to jump for joy in this second photo but forgot how low the ceiling was 🤣 not quite the look I had in mind 😂 #basementrenovation #cellarrenovation #victorianbasement #victoriancellar #victorianhouse #victorianrenovation #renovationstyle #rusticrenostyle #myperiodhome #renovationrealities #renovationstyle #lovemyrenovation #mybuildingsitehome #renovationstories #instareno #renovationproject #slowrenovations #electricalwork #thisoldhouse #myrenovation #homeimprovement #housetohome #makingahouseahome 
Wow - thank you so much for all your messages on yesterday’s post, I don’t think I’ve ever received so many comments on a single post! I was genuinely slightly overwhelmed and haven’t thanked you all individually - but thank you - I really do appreciate all your kind words! I know a few of you are wondering what’s in store for the babies room, but we’ve decided to wait until some months after the birth before decorating / furnishing the room. I’ve already been told this may be a mistake, so you don’t need to all warn me again about the lack of time I’ll have in months to come 😂 I can however show you the room that will eventually become the babies room! It’s a room we tackled back in 2015 (swipe for the before) and looks ‘done’, but unfortunately there’s always more to do than meets the eye and this room was never fully completed. 😂 For one, the 3x partially redundant water tanks and mis-mashed plumbing chaos that’s hiding inside that cupboard is a massive job all on its own. 🙈 And if you look closely further, you may spot missing skirting boards and some other repair work that needs doing. Admittedly though, it’s far from the level of work we’ve carried out in the basement and we’ve already done a fair amount to make it half-decent for the odd overnight guest and when I’m in here blogging. 👩🏻💻 The reason we’re not finishing this room right now though is because we’re still committed to work in the basement and getting those ££ electrics doing first! The basement will provide valuable extra storage space which we’re going to need in order to rearrange the house in time. So until next spring/summer, we just have a bedside crib for our room and a chest of drawers for baby clothes/supplies. No baby room just yet! Its not insta perfect, but hopefully the baby won’t mind too much. 😉 #sparebedroom #guestbedroom #homerenovation #beforeandafter #diyrenovation #housetohome #victorianterrace #victorianrenovation #renovationproject #myhomereno #lovemyrenovation #bedroomrenovation #homeinteriors #interiorstyle #howihome #whereilive #thisoldhouse #housesofinstagram #instahome #interiordecor #periodproperty #periodhome 
Our biggest project yet... One that doesn’t actually require DIY tools and something we have zero skills for.... 😅 We’re having a baby! 😬😬🤰🏻 Yes, I’ve been keeping this quiet for some time 🙈 I wasn’t sure when I wanted to share on here and didn’t really want to do a huge announcement. But at the same time, realised if I don’t say something soon, I’ll just be showing up with a baby one day. 😂🤷🏻♀️ #coming2021 #pregnancy #diyblogger