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We wanted our new extension to look like it had always been there – here's how we did it

This forgotten outbuilding has been given a new life

Ideal Home · Aug 11

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

Three years after painstakingly cleaning every reclaimed brick by hand, we're finally putting them to work

Ideal Home · Jul 14

How we built a bespoke-looking kitchen island for under £300 – and it's become one of our proudest renovating achievements

After receiving hugely expensive quotes, we took things into our own hands

Ideal Home · Jun 16

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We made a B&Q kitchen look bespoke and saved thousands – how just a handful of small decisions completely changed the finish

Our in-frame trick makes the biggest visual difference

Ideal Home · Jun 2

Avoiding the quiet pressure to keep a renovation moving – the rooms we’re choosing to leave alone (for now)

We've discovered that not every space needs to be finished immediately

Ideal Home · Apr 7

Decision fatigue is the real renovation villain – it's not about making the 'wrong' choice, it's losing confidence in the ones we’ve already made

What we didn’t expect was how mentally consuming renovating would be

Ideal Home · Mar 10

How we’re making 2026's interior trends work in our renovation – a real life home that includes budgets, compromises, changing tastes and all

From confidence with colours to the importance of texture

Ideal Home · Feb 24

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'This place has so much potential' – how our old cottage is finally becoming the home we saw in our heads the first time we walked through its crooked old doorway

This is when the house begins to come together as a home

Ideal Home · Feb 10

Still not done, and that’s ok – finding beauty in the cracks, the dust and the endless to‑do lists in our renovation journey

We've stopped seeing imperfections as failures and start seeing them as part of the story

Ideal Home · Jan 27

Creating an open plan hub has been one of the most satisfying parts of our renovation – how we planned our space to fit the way we actually live

Three spaces, one room: designing an open plan hub

Ideal Home · Jan 13

The In-Between Phase: Renovations are endurance events – if you reframe your outlook and look for small wins you'll find them easier to get through

How we survived living in a home that’s half finished and half just beginning

Ideal Home · Dec 30, 2025

Hindsight Renovators: What we’d change about our DIY projects to date (and what we’d do all over again)

Regrets? We've had a few - these are the DIY do-overs we'd love to tackle, and the the decisions we still stick by today

Ideal Home · Oct 21, 2025

We've just found the ultimate DIY raised planter hack using a filing cabinet - it's genius

Why not turn old rusty filing cabinets into innovative garden planters?

Ideal Home · Aug 2, 2023

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