It's a Green House

Here's the one year update on the porch, hallway and landing! Some of the progress is covered back in this post but there have been a few more updates since then so there are updated before and after photos :) We are lucky here to have a really good size porch and entryway, but when we moved in it wasn't very usable. Firstly the front door didn't actually work, it was stuck locked and we didn't have keys for it, so we were going in and out the back or side doors all the time. It was also really cold as the door was quite draughty and there is no heating out there.  We had the permanent ladder up to the open loft hatch on the landing too. Which is finally gone! I really like the window looking over the park, it lets in light to the stairs and landing. The biggest change in the porch has been getting the door and window replaced and getting rid of the dark carpet. The door is a composite from HiTech Windows who also did the rest...

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...