The Beginning

Its always difficult knowing when to start, or even how to start  - or even if you should start. However I have decided to take the plunge. Its time to share some my experience of turning a house in to a home - or even a garage in to a living room!
I'm Sara. Very happily married with no children (yet) and a beautiful period house that used to be a granary. We live in a small Cotswold village in England.

We have had the rather wonderful oppertunity of naming our house -through circumstances which will become clear later.
Before we even moved in to the house -( in fact before we had even exchanged contracts!) - we had already picked the name. It took us ages to decide but Bumblebee Cottage won.
Bumblebee to me evokes such a lovely slow pace of life, bumbling about smelling the flowers. Cottage gives such a pretty mental picture (that completely didnt tally with the house when we bought it! At least not internally.)

So to begin - would you like to see our lovely house...?

Of course you would - nothing nicer than having a good snoop! Well snoop away.

I know what you are thinking. How do you get in to that lovely house? - there is no front door

And quite right you are. For the first year we had to use the back door. However as we near the completion of our first room we have a front door - and a window instead of a garage door.

Whoooooo

So would you like to see it now ? Yes?

Not bad eh?

So tomorrow I will tell you all about my free front door - yes free.
And what I did to make it lovely!