The under-stair cupboard we built by hand on a long weekend.
Under-stair voids are sold as wasted space because nobody bothers to fit them. A weekend of careful joinery later, ours holds a vacuum, a to…
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Re-grouting our bathroom on a Saturday — and the small things that made it look new.
Our bathroom needed a renovation we could not afford. We re-grouted instead. One Saturday, fifteen euros, and the room looks five years youn…
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I limewashed our hallway on a Tuesday — here is what I would do differently.
Limewash is the only paint that gets better as you make mistakes with it. After a Tuesday with a brush and a plastic tub, our hallway has th…
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The shallow alcove shelf that quietly fixed our living room.
Our living room had a 60cm-deep alcove no piece of furniture wanted to live in. Three pine boards, two coats of soft white, and a Sunday lat…
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