Today we celebrate our one year house-iversay, hurrah! Twelve months ago today we finished packing up my little seaside flat and picked up the keys to our first home together. It was a lovely warm, sunny day (quite the contrast to today’s weather!) and we had both sets of parents helping with all the lifting, sorting and cleaning. After the hard work, we toasted our new home with some wine and the obligatory moving in Chinese take away.
Since then we have made quite a few changes (improvements) to No. 14, and we are really starting to feel like we have put our own stamp on the place:
February 14th, 2013 – a busy day followed by a well earned dinner…
March was a busy month; we turned the 3rd bedroom into a study, had our first snowfall in the house, welcomed the arrival of our new cooker and hosted our first (home cooked) dinner party…
In April we tackled the back garden, pulling up slabs and hammering the concrete into pieces…
In May we got cracking on our guest bedroom…
June was the month we discovered that we still had the original Victorian garden tiles under the modern slabs in our front garden. We also fitted a new/old fireplace in the spare room, and watched our concrete free garden begin to grow…
In July we finished decorating the guest bedroom ready for a wedding, and planted up even more of the garden with our haul from the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show…
In August we took a break from all the work and simply enjoyed the beautiful flowers and home grown vegetables in our new cottage garden…
September saw us decide to give our downstairs living rooms a makeover for Christmas (we also jetted off to Tuscany for a glorious 10 days)…
In October we carved our very first pumpkin, and discovered that the dining room walls were not all as they seemed…
November saw us turn a corner in our downstairs renovations, and finally start to see a light at the end of the tunnel…
In December our lovely wallpaper went up and the walls were given a final coat of paint. We put up our first Christmas tree and celebrated the season in our shiny new rooms…
And finally the New Year saw us getting around to uncovering the rest of our front garden path.
So there you go, a whole year in the life of a Victorian Terrace. Here’s to the next 12 months!
P.S. Happy Valentine’s Day!
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