It's been a while since we gave an update of our little house and garden and, as it's now Spring, lots has changed.
Firstly, the garden. We've built a chicken coop, which we got for about a third of the retail price due to some cunning chopping, sticking and a lick of paint:
The chickens arrive next week so it's exciting times at 17 Lodge Road. We're getting 3 ex-battery hens so they'll be a bit weak and scraggy looking when they arrive but we're hoping a bit of TLC (we're taking a week off to chicken sit) they'll be running around in no time. They are going to be called April, May and June.
With the coop in the garden looks very different so I changed the beds around a bit and dug one big bed opposite the coop and put in a brick garden path.
The garden looks so much wider with it and we still have a good section of lawn in the middle (yes, I know is needs mowing!):
Mummy very kindly also donated us a chimney pot and strawberry/parsley pot so I've sunk these into the ground and filled them with herbs:
Finally, the grotty little bit outside the back door looks MUCH better with lots of plants in it. The pots on the wall in the foreground are from Ikea and the plant below them is African Blue Basil, which is a lovely perennial that we got from the Tonbridge Home & Garden show. You can also see two slug free hostas, which I now love, which were free from Thompson and Morgan:
Now inside...Last weekend we went to the reclamation yard down the road and got some iron wall brackets and a scaffold board to make this shelf (we took the cupboard off the wall to put this in). Matthew is also in the progress, as I type, of ripping the extractor fan off the wall which should really open it up and leave room for more shelves! We're struggling to find brackets so keep an eye out for some like these:
We also found this cupboard that someone had thrown out down the road but it's lovely so Matt repainted it and it's now on the dining room wall:
I have also learnt this week that Matthew should not be left alone with no jobs to do. I came in from the garden to find that he had ripped the carpet stairs up! There are lovely wooden floor boards underneath so we're going to spend next week sanding and waxing and then going to invest in a stair runner to stop them being slippery:
The final update is my job from this afternoon. We haven't used the dishwasher for about 9 months so it seemed silly keeping it. We freecycled it and a young couple who are moving into their first house came to collect it this afternoon so it found a good home. In its place we are putting the bin (so at last it's out of the dining room!) and recycling and maybe chicken food. I am quite proud of myself, I made this curtain with some fabric from mummy (on the front) and Matt's mum (on the back) to hide it all:
That's all for now! I'll post some chicken photos once they've arrived in their new home. Fingers crossed it all goes well.
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