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Grab a cuppa, sit down and let me ramble at you let’s chat about the realities of home renovation. This will be a long one. When I say renovation I don’t mean slapping on a bit of paint and installing a new kitchen worktop I mean sorting out everything in the house  everything from top…

Since November our house has become something of a horror. We had builders, plumbers, plasterers, electricians, tilers, carpenters, kitchen fitters and many other tradespeople traipsing across our house. In total they were in our house for 13 weeks, we spent 11 of those weeks living on a building site because that’s the kind of thing…

If you’re lucky enough to have a spare room, it’s well worth making sure it isn’t a junk room and it is ready for guests at the drop of a hat. Having guests to stay shouldn’t be a hassle, it shouldn’t mean spending 2 days finding the spare duvet or decluttering a room – having…

Ah the bathroom, a place of such routine and regular use and often so overstuffed with crap and no organisation whatsoever. I’m going to work on the assumption your bathroom is much like mine – small with little storage. We have a very small inbuilt ‘medicine cabinet’ over the sink and this slim line and…

After renovation comes decoration and my friends, it has been a slow process and will continue to be for a time to come. Finally after months of trawling for the perfect (the copper dining room light of dreams) over head lighting for our dining room we stumbled upon this beautiful light fitting in Sainsbury’s. I…

This is the Wednesday task from which, by the way, is a weekly post here on A Thrifty Mrs aiming to help you keep your home ticking over with minimal effort. I’m lazy and you are too, admit it. I don’t know about you but my bedside table keeps my life trotting by nicely, so…

I like to look after my surroundings and belongings so they’ll last longer and perform better and part of that means a regular cleaning routine. I’d rather spend a small amount of time cleaning my house on a daily basis than having to spend an entire Saturday trapped in cleaning hell in anticipation of guests …

Water meters are creeping into homes with a tidal like surge, we have one here at Thrifty Towers and apparently most houses will be fitted with one going forward. There are myriad ways one can save water at home and cut down on water bills but this particular way is seen as fairly extreme to…

Paying someone to change or fit your locks is expensive business. So after shelling out a hefty amount for a few doors worth of new locks and seeing what was involved, we hit the internet to look up tutorials and videos so we could do it ourselves. First off we started with our back gate…