Go Big or Go Home: Spraying Two Giant Chandeliers

The moment we ripped down our old, bowing and dangerous bedroom ceiling, I knew that lighting was going to be an issue adding more cost to an already expanding budget. When a vaulted ceiling is created, one of the considerations to take into account in the more imposing open space above head height is the...

Review & How To – WallRock Fibreliner Paper On An Old Ceiling

My review-type blog posts have dwindled away pitifully, mostly due to a lack of time to write them and I'm a little bit annoyed with myself that I stopped. Most of the products we use here at Moregeous HQ or on rentals are things we spend our hard earned cash on, though a handful are...

The Eight Steps To A Perfect Renovation

Throughout my whole time working on the first 15 episodes of the ground breaking BBC2 show "Your Home Made Perfect", I never stopped learning. Even after 24 yrs renovating properties, every day brought a situation I hadn't come across before, a new product or material, or a new way of doing something. So for our...

Lockdown Lunchtime Lives

And we're off! We're two Lockdown Lunchtime Lives down already - the first cooking a Green Thai Curry live on Friday just gone (what was I thinking, talk about baptism of fire, with literal chilli) and the Saturday Specialist with the bloody marvellous Sarah Parmenter of ReLovedMcr. The latter was an absolutely storming hour of...

Renovation Recipes: Green Thai Curry

Finally - and let's agree it's taken somewhat of a crisis to boot this into action - I'm getting time to share our renovation recipes. I bought the .co.uk for this five years ago, I kid you not, and had every intention of merrily blogging recipes all the way through our build. But we were...

Treasure Tingle: Making a Tiled Table from Scraps and Salvage

Renovating is expensive, we all know that. No matter how well you plan, draw up spreadsheets or keep an eye on the pennies, there are always extras and there's never quite enough left for finishing touches. Especially for the garden, the area which always seems to come in at last place on most renovation To...

Treasure Tingle: Upcycling A (Very Orange) Pine Dining Table

You know us here, we love a bargain and there's literally nowhere better to bag a bargain than your local charity shop. Are you a fan of digging through the fusty to find treasure? I can't get enough of it. Honestly, if I did 't have to work for a living, that's totally what I'd...