My Home Decorating Project

My Weekend Garden Rockery my weekend garden rockery after 2 months After collecting together all the rubble, rocks and plants this rockery was actually built from scratch in 2 days! Before the rockery I had a small area of soil, which was an odd shape, in between some of the concreted areas in the garden.  The previous owners must have used it as a planting area but there was no sign of any viable plants left.  When I got my new puppy he decided to use this area as a toilet and I needed to distract him from this.  Last year I planted this area with busy lizzy's which did look pretty but with a new puppy I didn't think that filling this area with flowers (for him to dig up and eat) would be a good idea!   Around the garden I had quite a bit of hardcore and bricks as well as large stones so I decided to build a rockery.  It is the first time that I have built one from scratch and probably isn't the best looking rockery but I am pleased with it anyway.  It has u

Transforming a dark and dirty bathroom into a bright and modern family shower room The bathroom before This room was particularly gross.  It was extremely dirty and smelt disgusting!  The first job that we did as soon as we moved in was to rip up the old pee soaked carpet from the floor.  Then we scrubbed the toilet, sink and bath.  We had to live with this bathroom for a few months so it needed to be clean.  The room is fairly small for the size of the house and the sanitary ware was very old and dated.  The bath was an old cast iron one which would have been nice to keep if it hadn't of been so damaged.  The toilet waste pipe was only loosely fitted into a very old, large cast iron downpipe.  The sink was also cracked and had a lot of limescale damage.  The only solution was to rip everything out and start again with a whole new bathroom. Removing the old cast iron soil stack We had to get our plumber to change the soil stack, even though it would have been