• NEARLY THERE 🙌 It’s been a while since I posted an update on the grid and though there’s a fair bit still to do before we can ‘move in’ (work planned until 19th Dec 🎄😬) we have turned a huge corner this week. This morning we ate breakfast AT A TABLE and then I put the dishes in a dishwasher. What a time to be alive!!! Tomorrow night, we might even have an oven but I’m not getting cocky just yet 😆 Part of me wanted to wait until everything was just so before posting pictures but then I looked at the bin bag and the boxes and the dust sheets and I thought, this is a moment in itself. So here it is. The almost-after. If this was I’m a Celebrity, with our trial being 5 months of microwave meals and limited water and cross words about lighting, today’s report from the Bush Telegraph is that campmates are all in good spirits. It really is bloody coming along 🎉😂 [oven @bertazzoni_official ad (discounted), everything else, we’ll be paying off until we die 🤣] #theturnerhouseproject #renovationadventure #finalpush #letsbehavingyou
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    NEARLY THERE 🙌 It’s been a while since I posted an update on the grid and though there’s a fair bit still to do before we can ‘move in’ (work planned until 19th Dec 🎄😬) we have turned a huge corner this week. This morning we ate breakfast AT A TABLE and then I put the dishes in a dishwasher. What a time to be alive!!! Tomorrow night, we might even have an oven but I’m not getting cocky just yet 😆 Part of me wanted to wait until everything was just so before posting pictures but then I looked at the bin bag and the boxes and the dust sheets and I thought, this is a moment in itself. So here it is. The almost-after. If this was I’m a Celebrity, with our trial being 5 months of microwave meals and limited water and cross words about lighting, today’s report from the Bush Telegraph is that campmates are all in good spirits. It really is bloody coming along 🎉😂 [oven @bertazzoni_official ad (discounted), everything else, we’ll be paying off until we die 🤣] #theturnerhouseproject #renovationadventure #finalpush #letsbehavingyou
  • HUGE milestone today, worktops went on 🎉 I keep going out by torchlight to have a look 🥰😂 Not quite ready to move in yet but bloody hell, IT’S A KITCHEN 🙌 Swipe across to see what used to be where the kitchen is now ... ⁣⁣ - Kitchen by @exeterbenchjoiners painted in Pavilion Gray (colour matched to F&B)⁣⁣ - Worktops quartz Verona from @crlstone ⁣⁣ - Range cooker @bertazzoni_official (cooker discounted, #ad) ⁣⁣ - Doors and windows @expressbifoldingdoors ⁣ - Blood, sweat and painting tears, our own 😂⁣⁣ #theturnerhouseproject⁣⁣ #1930shouserenovation
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    HUGE milestone today, worktops went on 🎉 I keep going out by torchlight to have a look 🥰😂 Not quite ready to move in yet but bloody hell, IT’S A KITCHEN 🙌 Swipe across to see what used to be where the kitchen is now ... ⁣⁣ - Kitchen by @exeterbenchjoiners painted in Pavilion Gray (colour matched to F&B)⁣⁣ - Worktops quartz Verona from @crlstone ⁣⁣ - Range cooker @bertazzoni_official (cooker discounted, #ad) ⁣⁣ - Doors and windows @expressbifoldingdoors ⁣ - Blood, sweat and painting tears, our own 😂⁣⁣ #theturnerhouseproject⁣⁣ #1930shouserenovation
  • Not done one of these for a while so here’s a #throwbackthursday to the old kitchen! Not even joking when I say I miss that oven, it’s been 5 months since we said our goodbyes and our kids now think all meals are cooked in 3 minutes plus 1 minute to stand. We are seriously not going to know ourselves when all this is done. Can’t wait. #theturnerhouseproject #1930shouserenovation
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    Not done one of these for a while so here’s a #throwbackthursday to the old kitchen! Not even joking when I say I miss that oven, it’s been 5 months since we said our goodbyes and our kids now think all meals are cooked in 3 minutes plus 1 minute to stand. We are seriously not going to know ourselves when all this is done. Can’t wait. #theturnerhouseproject #1930shouserenovation
  • Week 23! IT’S COMING ALONG GUYS 😂 It’s been ages since I’ve given anything by way of an update (other than losing the will to live at the launderette) so this is where we’re at. It looks like we’re nearly there and in many ways we are 👯 but anyone who has done a renovation will tell you that you have to get all your ducks in a row, and by ducks I mean trades. Lining up trades is worse than herding cats because timescales for one slip and then everyone is royally fucked sideways. The mood here is a positive one though, we’re at the “what’s another month, eh?!” manic smiling phase. Flooring is being fitted w/c 11th Nov (was supposed to be next week but we’re so chilled about it being pushed back again 🤪), then the kitchen, then worktop templating (can’t find a worktop I like within our budget so that’s weekend homework), then shower room tiling, then sorting final fix plumbing and electrics. Sofa and oven are now on site, wrapped up, like Christmas presents we can’t open. And the second-hand dining table we bought from a lovely chap called Phil in August is STILL at his farm after we asked him to keep it for “a couple more weeks”. But you know, it’s coming along 😂 We’ll SURELY be in by Christmas 🤞 #itsthefinalcountdown #theturnerhouseproject #1930shouserenovation
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    Week 23! IT’S COMING ALONG GUYS 😂 It’s been ages since I’ve given anything by way of an update (other than losing the will to live at the launderette) so this is where we’re at. It looks like we’re nearly there and in many ways we are 👯 but anyone who has done a renovation will tell you that you have to get all your ducks in a row, and by ducks I mean trades. Lining up trades is worse than herding cats because timescales for one slip and then everyone is royally fucked sideways. The mood here is a positive one though, we’re at the “what’s another month, eh?!” manic smiling phase. Flooring is being fitted w/c 11th Nov (was supposed to be next week but we’re so chilled about it being pushed back again 🤪), then the kitchen, then worktop templating (can’t find a worktop I like within our budget so that’s weekend homework), then shower room tiling, then sorting final fix plumbing and electrics. Sofa and oven are now on site, wrapped up, like Christmas presents we can’t open. And the second-hand dining table we bought from a lovely chap called Phil in August is STILL at his farm after we asked him to keep it for “a couple more weeks”. But you know, it’s coming along 😂 We’ll SURELY be in by Christmas 🤞 #itsthefinalcountdown #theturnerhouseproject #1930shouserenovation
  • A few hours’ grandparents babysitting can only mean one thing ... 🙄😂 #weusedtogoout #sometimesevengotfrisky #whathasbecomeofus #theturnerhouseproject
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    A few hours’ grandparents babysitting can only mean one thing ... 🙄😂 #weusedtogoout #sometimesevengotfrisky #whathasbecomeofus #theturnerhouseproject
  • My name’s Sarah and I’m a messy painter. Or, to quote my husband, “an absolute bloody disgrace.” 😂😂😂 #wildFridaynight #coupleswhopainttogether #hisandherspaintbrushes #cleanversusdirty #theturnerhouseproject
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    My name’s Sarah and I’m a messy painter. Or, to quote my husband, “an absolute bloody disgrace.” 😂😂😂 #wildFridaynight #coupleswhopainttogether #hisandherspaintbrushes #cleanversusdirty #theturnerhouseproject