Goodbye

Goodbye

I can’t quite believe that I’m writing this post… but over the past year I’ve toyed on more than one occasion with deleting my blog. I have wrote ‘Girl in the North’ in one form or another for over seventeen years – it has been more than anything, a diary. I have featured everything from ex boyfriends, new homes, my uni work to my marriage and the birth story of my twins. However over the past year, I haven’t felt comfortable sharing as much in the public domain and other than the odd sponsored post or review, I’ve never made…

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Bathroom Inspiration

Bathroom Inspiration

Bathroom images from soak.com, victoriaplumb.com and bathstore.com via my pinterest. They say the best laid plans often go awry and that is so true in the cases of renovation projects. I remember with our first house, my plan was to pay to have the whole house white washed and then add to each room as I wanted. Long story short but changes in the government saw mortgage lenders panic and my great offer in principle suddenly went out the window and the money I’d saved towards this went towards a bigger deposit to secure the house. I ended up doing…

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House Renovations – Week Two

House Renovations – Week Two

I’ve had loads of questions about the new house so I thought a quick update post might be easier to answer some of the more popular ones. We spent the first weekend after getting the keys stripping out. This is always a process I find really therapeutic but also one where I get easily carried away and forget about the budget! It’s also where you quickly realise that the best laid plans often go completely out the window. For example, I’d planned to keep the carpet in the back bedroom to save money on flooring but actually on closer inspection…

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Stripping out the new house

Stripping out the new house

After finally getting our hands on the keys, within 24 hours we were in the new house stripping out. We’re not living in the property straight away until some of the work is completed, so time is of the essence to get cracking so we can move in. J’s mum has had the girls for a couple of days this week so I’ve been able to lend a hand and it’s already starting to look a lot different. Rather than a skip, we opted for a grabber to come collect all the rubbish today so we’ve been frantically pulling things…

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Our New House – The Estate Agent Pictures

Our New House – The Estate Agent Pictures

After a whirlwind couple of months, we completed on the sale of our new home on Friday and finally got our hands on the keys. Despite the sale only taking a couple of months to go through from offer to completion, I’d forgotten all the reasons we had fallen in love with it. We both thankfully have an ability to see past decor and as J runs a fire and flood restoration business, he has an eye for spotting any major issues. So hopefully you won’t think we’re too crazy when you scroll through the photos. I have an uncanny knack…

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