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 Middlecroft Cottage




Hello and welcome to our blog about our renovation project!

We are going to document the work we do on the house here as a way of remembering it ourselves and also as an easy way of sharing with you what we are up to without boring you to death ... hopefully. The idea is that you can dip into it if and when you feel curious about what is going on.

Here are a couple of first impressions of the inside of the property from the night we got the keys  - as you can see already at lot needs to happen to make this house a nice home again.

Catherine xxx

Upstairs hallway

kitchen

kitchen viewed from the breakfast area

Living room


Location: Durham, UK

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  1. UnknownNovember 9, 2021 at 1:03 AM

    It is so lovely to see it, Catherine and see you and Rich at the start of this exciting renovation project. I can see the scale of the work needed it but it is good to see what the cottage looks like visually.

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    1. CloudberryNovember 11, 2021 at 12:11 AM

      Thank you. Yes I hope we can look back on this as we go through the renovation to see how far we have come.

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