In the beginning

Well my new husband and I bought a derelict house near Cambridge and started creating havoc - in an attempt to eventually turn it into a lovely new home. I thought it was about time I did some documentation.

The place is a little 1880's Victorian semi-detached. From the outside its got some great original features (that phrase we all love so much!), brilliant chimney stacks, stripes of rich red bricks and lovely brick arches over the windows. 

However, I wouldn't be writing this if it was the perfect little home would I?!

Also outside, most of the garden is transformed to concrete, an asbestos roofed concrete garage, and the footings of an extension which never had planning permission to start with, let alone by the time we bought it. Other little delicacies include a window arch which rests haphazardly above a twice as wide as it, and bricked in with new bricks where its not as tall as it should be. The neighbours half of the house boasts lovely sash windows, adding extra contrast to our rotten 50's disasters, its certainly a clear reminder of what we're aiming for! 

Inside, the extreme 70's has taken over....combined with 2 plus years of emptiness and some very scary wiring - even I could tell that without my husbands help!