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Finally!

Welcome back to the new, renamed, revamped blog! We finally bought a house :)

After the years of following home design blogs, and having a brief go at writing one for tenants myself, we are actually renovating a 1935 end of terrace 2 bed house.


As you can see it is not actually green, but over the last few years I have really gotten into reducing waste and being as eco friendly as possible, so one of my main goals for this house is to make it conducive to this - hence the name change of the blog. 

We are in the first month at the moment and we are in the stressful stage of ripping out lots of things, seeing what is underneath, being horrified/pleasantly surprised or somewhere in between, and then deciding what to do. Its all fun and wallpaper stripping round our house this month! Unfortunately not a lot of it was salvageable or there are issues underneath that need sorting so we are having to start again. Before photos coming soon! 
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