After beginning the kitchen replacement work around four months ago, we are close to completion at last! With all the units and appliances installed, the slate floor tiles down, the new lighting working and the walls painted, we’re just waiting for one of my joiner friends to find a slot in his diary to lend...More Please

It’s been a year since we moved up to North Yorkshire and into our 200-year-old Georgian cottage near the historical site of the Battle of Marston Moor. It had the character, the history, the space and the views. What it didn’t have was many modern conveniences. The previous owner had lived in the property for...More Please

Late in 2014, after living in Essex and Hertfordshire since the turn of the millennium, my girlfriend and I made the decision to move up to Yorkshire for a change of lifestyle. Part of that change was to buy a character property. We’d always lived in fairly new buildings – mainly through happenstance rather than...More Please