Kitchens, Arks and Takeaways!

The Kitchen Makeover – Almost Finished We always knew today was going to be busy! It was the day we set aside for restocking the kitchen cupboards after emptying them last week in preparation for the kitchen makeover. In spite of the hard work by Anglia Interiors’s Grant, their kitchen installer, the job wasn’t quite …
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Table Mountain

After last week’s disappointing mission to locate and purchase a replacement dining room table and chairs, as well as look for ideas for the kitchen makeover – today could only be described as ‘mission accomplished’. We drove up to Downtown near Grantham, for a look round their furniture department, and discovered they had mountains of …
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Wi-Fi Range Extenders

Those with technophobia, should look away now! If you live in a house where certain parts of it don’t receive a very good wireless signal from your router (because of thick walls or just physical distance), then there’s a good cost-effective solution available. Called a ‘range extender’, these bits of tech, ‘do exactly what they …
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Kettering’s Smallest B and B?

And finally, with the bed arriving from Fenwick’s late last week, this was the first opportunity we’d had to get the ‘blue bedroom’ back to looking like.. well… a bedroom – it’s been the dumping ground for all sorts of c*** for what seems like months, whilst the office was being converted back to another …
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Magic Carpet

Steve from John Lewis arrived as planned and laid the carpet today. Magic! Now it’s just a case of positioning the new furniture! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s!  My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), …
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Home for Chrome!

It’s almost ‘job done’ so we’re putting the finishing touches to the office/bedroom conversion – and it seems that chrome fittings are the current trend. The headboard and ottoman arrive tomorrow and the the bed should be here in a few weeks. Currently the bedroom furniture is ‘living’ in the second bedroom whilst we wait …
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