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David and Andrew Harrison-Colley

Everyone thought we were mad for saving these old bricks – now they're the making of our garden

Man in garden by wooden fence and large pile of bricks.

Committed home renovators David and Andrew Harrison-Colley (better known on Instagram as The Home Boys) are part of Ideal Home's new Open House contributors, sharing their thoughts on making a home together and living through the tricky parts. See the rest of their articles here.

There’s a stack of bricks at the bottom of our garden that has been waiting, very patiently, for the best part of three years. We walk past it most days. For a long time it was just there – a slightly accusatory pile, the physical embodiment of a job we kept promising to get to and never quite did.

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