Tag: interior design
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DIY: Transforming a Cupboard into a Home Office
How much space do you really need for a home office? We turned a cupboard into our work from home station.
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Ikea Hack – Turning Metod Wall Cabinets into Build in Seating
How we created a built in seating area from Ikea kitchen cabinets.
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Making the Most of a Tiny Bathroom
Having such a small bathroom was always going to be a challenge, this meant that we would have to get creative. Originally, tenement flats had no internal bathrooms, the people who lived there would share an outhouse in the garden. When indoor plumbing became possible they had to try fit bathrooms within the existing space.…
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Our Self-Build Kitchen Experience
Our experience designing and building a kitchen in a tenement flat.
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First Week Recap and Our Plans for This Renovation Project.
It feels like so much has happened this week that I’m not really sure where to begin but I guess I’ll start with when we finally got the keys. After another weeks delay we eventually got the phone call that the keys were ready to collect. I was at work so Stuart picked up the…
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Our First Flip – My Experience as a First Time Buyer
We bought our first flat back in 2016. One afternoon, on a whim I decided to meet with a mortgage advisor at my bank to see if buying a flat was a possibility. The appointment was really easy and took around 15 minutes. I was pre-approved for a mortgage and after talking with Stuart, we…
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What is Coorie?
If you ask Wikipedia you will find out that Coorie is a “Scottish Lifestyle which involves concepts such as cosiness and snuggling, similar to the Scandinavian Hygge.” To me it means a place where you want to relax and cuddle up after a day out in the Scottish weather. When we decided to launch our…
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About us
Hello. My name is Becky and together with my husband, Stuart, we have decided to take a leap into the property development business. I plan to document our journey as both newlyweds and business partners in this blog. I have always had a passion for design and interiors and dreamt about doing this as a…
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