DIY

I’ve wanted a picnic bench since we moved in, but lockdown meant we couldn’t get one – I found one for sale the other day, so jumped at the chance!

The hard work earlier in the month is paying off now, we have flowering and growing plants that we will be able to eat one day!

Lots of work painting, adding raised flower beds, planting tatties, carrots, apple trees, rhubarb, rose bushes and flower bombs! I’ve also removed a lot of thatch and moss from the lawn and added in an arch for the ivy to grow along! Since I took these photos the trees have Read more…

Our front door was a light chalky green colour – it was pretty nice, but we decided to change it to black gloss. One tin or rustoleum later, we have a black door.

Our fireplace is made from fake stone – almost concrete like, but trying to look and feel like sandstone. Its very nice, but it’s a yellow colour. We decided to paint it, and after a little research found that chalk paint would be best, here are the results After leaving Read more…

Starting the finishing touches on the workshop – adding some Led lights. They turned out very well :)

We are entering ?third? lockdown now (though it feels like 7 months of solid lockdown, minus two days in the office) so I thought it time to do some more in the workshop; I needed somewhere for my music production gear. First up was a desk – I stacked two Read more…

The house had an old school mains powered security light. Time to upgrade to the 21st century with some solar powered lights. The ones I got were basic and from ebay, they have 142 leds per light, and have a ton of lumens each.

The workshop is coming along nicely now – areas for tools, music equipment, and plenty room for working on machines, servers, blog content, experiments or random things like gameboys! The rug is going to go soon – it was from the living room and the recycle centre was closed during Read more…

What would a modern workshop be without an Internet connection 😂 We have FTTP which enters the property at the front – into a router. I’ve run a cable from there, along the skirting and out near the front door (closest point to the drainpipe I would follow to the Read more…

In Scotland there are a few things that you can do which don’t require planning permission (or a building warrant) extending a ring to add extra sockets is one of those things you can do if you have a regular 2 story house (though you do have to have a Read more…

I ordered some alex drawers, some linmon desktops (the 2m versions) and some little stands from Ikea for some ikea desk hacks, and three 4×2 kallax units for storing books on the other wall. The first thing to do was to build the three alex drawer units and the drawers. Read more…