Author Archives: Grace

From this delicious pile of stones, This tempting, desireable heap of extremely heavy slabs… We are managing to extract, with much huffing and puffing, a paved dooryard. In other paving news, we will shortly be excavating, filling and paving an … Continue reading →

We’ve finally reached that milestone in house building where you’re no longer using a sheet of plywood on two gate hinges for a front door. We got given a fairly nice hardwood (faced) door, which I glazed (thanks for the … Continue reading →

Seriously, how can I have done SO MANY THINGS and there are still things left to do? How!? Here is what my floor looked like for a long time: Yeah, that’s a big hole in the middle. But then I … Continue reading →

Because I never have enough different projects on the go at once. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with all the areas of walk-through floor, the bits between “rooms” in my entirely open plan ground floor. I … Continue reading →

So yeah, Sarah-May came to stay and shit got done. In fairness, I did an epic quantity of cutting in advance of her visit, days and days of just cutting cutting cutting tiles, knackered multiple diamond blades (not cheap) because … Continue reading →