So we have to say that last night the final blind (the missing piece of the renovation puzzle) arrived but half the size of the actual window! We and blind person not sure how it happened, so we are just going to have to wait a little bit longer till we can say we have …
Mention the word Tenerife and what springs to mind is a guys and girls party weekend for 18-22 year olds, on par with other destinations such as Ibiza, Faliraki, Aiya Napa and Magaluf (it ain’t tame to say the least). We got a few raised eyebrows when we first looked at heading to Tenerife, but …
…We’ve been snagging! So we know it’s been awhile since we posted an update on the renovations, 2012 to be exact. Now that the sun is beginning to shine with the sniff of Spring in the air, and not to mention the final bit of snagging has been completed in the last week, Elldrew are planning …
Just a quick update as the Christmas silliness seems to also be consuming Elldrew (which is a welcome distraction from the delayed renovations)!
NEARLY THERE Week 7 and there is finally light at the end of the tunnel. With the week of Week 8 booked off from work for snagging and furniture deliveries, and although the builders seem to be approximately 1 week behind, we are positive that by the end of Week 8 we may have a …
TANTRUMS AND TIARAS Week 6 in Elldrew Manor has been a week of mixed emotions. Whether it was coming down from the high of last week’s Parisian jaunt, or that we are just sick of the dirt and dust, we don’t really know, but for sure the first half of the week was one of …
DECORATION AND A JAUNT TO PARIS Week 5 and the renovations have definitely taken a positive turn with construction at Elldrew Manor turning towards decoration. Alas, that means that most of the week seems to have been consumed with plastering, sanding, erecting of walls, positioning of pattresses (the box buried in the wall behind the …
3 OF 7 Week 4 and the house still looks like a bomb site. So much for it being a 4-5 week job…more like a 6-8 week job we think!
Week 3 of Elldrew’s Grand Designs and we have a kitchen! Well, when we say we have a kitchen what we actually mean is that we have 30 sealed packaging crates dominating the living room waiting to be installed. What that also means is that Elldrew have been relegated entirely to the Guest Suite as …
FLOOR DECISIONS AND THAT MYSTERIOUS CONCRETE SLAB Week Two and the house is being visibly torn up around us. Each night Elldrew return from work to find our small seating area in the lounge shrinking in on us and we are having to hop, skip and jump around missing floorboards and open cavities! Mr Builder …