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DIY – Destroy It Yourself…!!

Why pay a professional to do it, when you can destroy it yourself…??
At the same part of the house where we discovered the hidden doorway (and the fifty year old hidden message) is a downstairs toilet.
It was put in around the early seventies and is looking very tired indeed!
We are going to put a downstairs [...]

Seek and yee shall find… a doorway??

Or perhaps two…
We’ve discovered a safe!
It’s hidden in one of the bottom cupboards, in what we call the Major’s study. It’s probably been there for around 100 years. Problem is, we don’t have a key and I was looking in the built-in cupboard (some might call it a closet), in the hallway, at the back [...]

Redwood Renovation – Introduction and overview…

Redwood Renovation is a an informational website about the eco-friendly renovation of a stone built, late Victorian house, located in the County of Durham, in the North-East of England, which was built at the end of the 19th Century (around 1897).
For around the last 25 – 30 years, the house has been fairly neglected, it’s [...]