Our New Home
We moved into our new home just over a year ago. It had been empty for around 3 years and had been left unattended during that time. The result was a very overgrown garden and a damp and cold house. When we first viewed the house we were immediately able to look beyond it's state of disrepair and see the ultimate potential. We fell in love with it! We knew it would take a few years to transform into anything like how we want it to be, but we were still excited about taking on this project. Moving into the house with young children was quite daunting. We had to prioritise the projects with the children's safety being paramount. The garden lacked fencing to secure the children, there was little heating downstairs and a boiler that was over 20 years old.
The whole house was filthy with signs of mice activity and masses of cobwebs everywhere, together with damp and mould patches. The garden was knee high with brambles, nettles and ivy everywhere. Underneath the garden greenery was broken glass and rubbish and we also found two large ponds that were almost hidden. We had quite a task on our hands!
During the past year we have already made quite a few changes to the house. As I really enjoy looking at other people's 'before and after' decorating and gardening projects, I thought maybe other people would be interested to see ours.
Photo's of our home when we bought it
The old fashioned lounge
This is quite a large room which used to be the public bar when the house was previously a country pub, about 30 years ago.
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| transforming an old fashioned lounge into a modern front room |
Disgusting dirty bathroom
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View the bathroom tranformation. From dull and dark to a bright bling bathroom |
some of the bedrooms before
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| this will be the master bedroom |
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| this will be the children's bedroom |
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| this will be the playroom |
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| this will be the study |
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| this will be the guest bedroom |
The old bar room
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| the room with a bar |
The utility room
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| the utility room before |
The downstairs toilet
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| the old downstairs toilet/ wet room |
The kitchen
The overgrown garden
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