Half as much house…

As of today, more than half of the house is gone and what’s left isn’t much to write home about. The demo part of the construction is moving swiftly along. I’ll be excited to see walls going up and the new space starting to take shape.

It’s already started

We officially broke ground on the 20th January. There’s a pause of a few days before the real work starts on Monday. Am I ready? Not in the slightest. Have I finished packing up? Nope. Am I excited? You betcha.

An ode to Abby

I was perplexed by the sitting room in the house when I went to the viewing. It was super cold in the room — no insulation in those ceiling rafters — and the furniture was too big for the space and pushed up against the walls. Thanks to my sweet friend, Abby, we were given …

The garden room

A garden room or, as they commonly call it in Ireland, a “seomra” (Irish for room pronounced “show-mrah”), has always been a popular concept in this country – maybe because the size of the houses is typically smaller than what we would have in the States. Google tells me that the average size in the …