Home & Garden Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/home-garden/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:39:54 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Home & Garden Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/home-garden/ 32 32 2696646 New Doors—Finally! https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/04/new-doors-finally/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/04/new-doors-finally/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:47:00 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=45379 New interior doors for the house might not be the most exciting home improvement, but after waiting over 20 years, they feel pretty special to us! We never liked the old ones from the day they were installed. Back then, we were young, building our first house, and not really sure what we were doing—so...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/04/new-doors-finally/feed/ 2 45379 More Time in the Garden https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/04/more-time-in-the-garden/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/04/more-time-in-the-garden/#comments Mon, 03 Apr 2023 08:02:07 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=39093 It’s that time of year when I could almost write a blog post about the garden on a daily basis as there’s so much happening. Even on the slightly grey dreary days there’s plenty to do and plenty of new plants and flowers emerging. On the sunny days it seems to transform itself. Jobs to...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/04/more-time-in-the-garden/feed/ 1 39093 Finishing the Lean-to Build – Hot Work https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/07/finishing-lean-build-hot-work/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/07/finishing-lean-build-hot-work/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:42:03 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=22537 Tuesday was an absolute scorcher here. It started off hot and just got hotter with the temperatures eventually maxing out at 32.8ºC. The hottest day so far in 2016 and not far off our ‘all-time’ record of 33.7ºC set on 19th July 2016.  Typically, I had lots of hot work planned for the day, finishing...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/07/finishing-lean-build-hot-work/feed/ 2 22537 A DIY Weekend at Home https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/06/a-diy-weekend-at-home/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/06/a-diy-weekend-at-home/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:50:50 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=19573 It seems to be a rare occasion that we get a whole weekend at home these days, especially one with no real events to attend. But that is exactly what we’ve just had. This was partly due to the fact that Morgan was ill so couldn’t go to a special orchestra practise that he was supposed...

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