Project House

Our Handmade Story is mostly all about handmade things but recently we`ve been busy with our Project House. Our aim is to turn it into full time property development. We`ve bought it a couple of months ago, It needed quite a bit of work doing, A LOT more than we anticipated.

First house, many mistakes and lessons learnt. I have to admit very expensive lessons. We had many days when we thought that it just couldn`t get worse but it did. It all started well with creating a third bedroom. After that we had a lot of problems with our first builders. Drinking, smoking, not turning up, using the back yard as skip, plastering over damp walls... You name it!

 

 

 Some of the walls were so damp that the plaster was coming off when we were taking the wallpaper off, so we had to strip them back to brick.

 

 

Now we know that finding the right local builder is the most important thing when you want to be renovating properties and that should have been our priority. The right builder works to your requirements, can plan properly and does not come out with a lot of excuses.

We are just a couple of weeks away from completing it and we can finally breathe knowing that it`s on the right track.

I`ll be keeping you up to date with our work so I will post some pictures of the work that was being done in the meantime and then the finished project.