Introduction

In May 2016 I purchased a house that needed a lot of work, plans to renovate were postponed due to relationship issues and in September 2017, my partner and I split up leaving me the choice to either sell up and move our 2 children to a different home or complete the renovation by myself! I decided to take on the challenge of renovating the house myself. Due to having 2 young children to look after and very little funds it's been hard going but getting there very slowly. Here is the progress so far!

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