It's a Green House

We recently got round to adding our open shelves in the kitchen (#lockdownlife) and it's made such a difference! If you are considering them it's definitely worth giving them a try. Here's what they look like, yes there is a half dead fern in the sink this has also turned into something of a plant rehab centre. When designing the kitchen we originally planned to put just one upper cabinet to the left of the window but when we saw it mocked up it just looked a bit odd out there on its own with all the other upper cabinets on the other side of the room. We also realised that we already have plenty of cabinet space plus the whole utility room so we decided that we didn't really need the cabinet space enough to justify not really liking the look of it. It's totally a personal preference, I know some people will think this looks too open and cluttered and would prefer it all cabinets but in person it's a nice light corner of an otherwise clean a...

The kitchen is the room that saw the most dramatic transformation early on in the year because there was no kitchen in here at all when we moved it so it was priority number one to get this sorted. Here are the before and now photos, sometimes I forget how different it was and its mad to see it so much improved! Excuse the state of the garden and the floor in the after photos, we are having work done on the large oak tree and the hedges all trimmed so the garden was a mess and I didn't hoover as we were traipsing in sawdust etc all day. I wanted to take the opportunity to get some photos as current as possible (and while the kitchen was clean) though. The kitchen started as this, just a cabinet and a sink within this little archway and then a large empty room which probably would have been the dining area. The sink wasn't even in there when we viewed the house but in order to get a mortgage a property has to be habitable and needs to have some sor...

We have now reached the monumental moment where we can get out of bed, go downstairs, through the living room and into the kitchen without having to put shoes or slippers on! Break out the bunting this has been a long time coming!  If you follow me on Instagram (@itsagreenhouse) you may have seen my excitable video tour of our different flooring options, but there is a bit more detail on our choices, the cost and the installation. The kitchen was the first room to get flooring down - tiles and underfloor heating installation and why we chose these tiles for the kitchen are all covered here . However I realise I didn't actually go into the cost of the tiles (only the underfloor heating). The tiles in here were actually on clearance so we stocked up and got enough for the hall and downstairs loo too - they were £10 per pack which covers 1 square metre. We over purchased as they are on clearance so we didn't want them to be discontinued, so we spent about £100 o...