Oh, my goodness.

It is an absolute madhouse today in my house.

Finally, I am getting around Thio of logging a bit of a house update, which is very, very long overdue.

Andi, it's so funny because I felt like for a while it was like it was too much coming your way in terms of, like, house stuff.

Now I'm like, I just don't have the time to film anything, so I'm really, really sorry, But I also feel like we've started the next stage off the house.

Renovations on dhe.

There's Oh, yeah.

Okay.

No, open the chest.

I'll give up painting.

Killed.

Yeah.

Yeah, We've comes and interrupts me blogging and showed me up anyway.

So to bring you up to speed on where we are at on what the plans are, we currently have our new staircase almost in completely.

So this week we start off the week with old staircase to the third floor being ripped out.

Not 1/3 floor top.

Scary.

Too confused to third floor.

Okay, that was ripped out on DDE.

Yeah.

Yes.

We're just know whenever I say like, ground floor, But I feel like it's weird when you say, like ground floor like snow on the ground floor when people would be like downstairs.

But we have another downstairs.

Yeah, Great.

We've got first.

Yeah, first brought her anyway.

Getting complicated.

There I am.

If you let me introduce my block, I will.

Yes.

My card when you opened that door is absolute carnage.

That's why people out there.

So we are starting the next stage.

And this might seem a little bit strange because obviously we've got the hallways painted initially, but I just had to do that for me.

I just had to get a lick of paint on them writing them up because they were so dark.

We decided that we were gonna be changing the staircases in this house, which is quite a big job.

And it's an expensive job, and it's a job that we have really thought long and hard about.

Andi spent a lot of time talking to Sarah about the kind of staircases that we wanted and getting them right, And we've had the maid really, really beautifully.

Actually, I'm so happy with them.

The first decades that one is, you walk in the door and it's like up That's a completely new staircase with the one down to the basement that's being so fabricated.

So we're able to make good of that on even now, just looking at it from what's happened in the last few days.

It has bright.

I thought it was gonna make it darker.

I was so worried because it's obviously it wasn't open staircase.

We I thought that because we're releasing all of the glass and all of like, the openness of the staircase, it was gonna make it really dark.

But actually it's almost like lightened the area up.

It's very, very strange what's happening out there at the moment.

I mean, I'm not going to speak to you soon because the spindles don't have to go in, but it does feel a lot brighter in a lot, a lot lighter.

So this week, the first staircases going in the one up to our dressing rooms and then next week the second staircase is going in, and then once those are both in our new floor throughout, the ground floor goes in, which is a big, big job because that floor actually leads into cloakrooms, dining rooms and things like that.

So it is gonna be a big, big job, and I think there's going to be a day when we can't actually be in the house at all because they've got to, like, screed the floor.

Then we have our carpet runners going in.

So we got carpet run is going on both stairs on, then carpet on the top floor.

I have decided to go for a natural carpet because I just I'd absolutely love natural carpet, I think is so incredibly chic on Dhe.

I just love.

It's kind of like rustic vibes, So I knew that there needed to be hard wearing.

We definitely couldn't go for cream up there because there's a lot of footfall.

There's a lot of shoes on.

It's just one of those places that we just needed hard wearing, just like the stairs on.

I think personally it work really, really well up there.

So I'm gonna insert some footage of the guys taking out a staircase because that was a big job and quite frightening to watch, actually, because it's just the two guys and they're just like take it a hole down, staircase out and all of the glass going and stuff like that, but it feels like it feels good for it to be gone.

But what we are doing today is Ali and I are taking on some of the work ourselves.

So we have to paint.

The spindle is just to keep, like costs down on dhe.

Just start kind of taking a bit of the slack on things because it's not really like we do have to do some things ourselves.

On dhe.

I probably haven't been showing most bits, so I probably mean to do more.

I think we'll end up painting like the walls of our like Gates ourselves on.

This is just another job that we have to do ourselves just to keep those cost stone because it's an expensive thing that we're doing in renovating houses, a time consuming thing that we've been here a year, and yet we've done so much.

We were really, really lucky in the sense that we were able to do so much.

But there is still so much that needs to do that we haven't even touched the garden and I don't think we'll touch the garden this year and we always thought we would.

But there's No way we're touching it this year on DDE.

Yeah, that we've got, like, so much to do downstairs our guest bedrooms, like the walls literally falling off like the plasters is coming off the walls on dhe.

We can't do those that Yes, we have to start doing things ourselves.

So I'm gonna go downstairs with Ali.

We're gonna be painting the spindles for the staircase.

Is It's quite a few is probably take us a while, but I'm looking forward.

So I find painting radiotherapy sick.

I love painting my books as he would have seen over my home account.

So yeah, anyway, rambling on seven minutes just to bring you up to speed on this home log on dhe.

Also, I've got loads of stuff to show you in this.

Some things I've been buying some things I need to buy today on dhe just just kind of get cracking on things.

Basically.

So this is the progress off the staircase after you saw them tearing out?

I do keep doing a few updates on the home instagram account, but it's going in, so we need to paint for things to go in this bit here.

A little spindles, so I'm gonna put a prime, a coat on them on.

Then they go in.

And then when we decide, because I actually can't decide on what color this staircase needs to be once we decide, then we'll have it painted properly.

Ready, babe?

This guy, this is the 1,000,000 Gordon work show on Dhe.

I am excited to get my paintbrush out, my feet cold so we could be still not 10.

There, under floor heating.

Back on.

Okay.

I'm gonna go get some slippers then so we can get painting.

I get to paint, too, though.

Okay, Cool.

You ready, Mr Miller?

Gordon.

Good.

Get we go over these today and only these and the ladies and all of those.

Oh, God.

I've been given my dog my job since late for that.

We're about 1/3 of the way through.

We've got all of those done.

We've got the 2nd 3rd on the bench.

Ali is slacking, though, but I'm totally okay with it because it's gloomy on his lap, so I don't really mind.

He could take five with baby girl whilst I basically carry on currently trying to get Lou me to stay in her bed so that Lincoln work easing her into it.

Yeah, it's what we have to do for our high maintenance calves.

We have just finished up in woven on.

You went Thio Zoo house for some little home where shopping and Ali was very inspired when he was there on we just had a mooch around the shops.

Ready on.

I got a baking.

Bolas.

Well, on dhe, our friends coming over tonight.

See what?

Salmon.

Alex coming over for a posh Nando's on DDE drinks.

It's been a lovely day.

So far, Very chilled.

So they're gonna stay over as well.

They they are.

So I get to drink beer when you get a drink with junior.

Yeah, from my jin Tried the new six minutes.

I'm gonna my even treat sound to a glass of more whiskey.

Special edition.

Only 122 casks, casks, bottles made.

Probably one cast.

Probably one kind coming in around about three engine, 50 quid.

You get that from working?

Oh, wow.

Uh, you know, because it's well, I don't know.

I don't know what you're working on.

Jim.

Today, guys, I'm pumped.

I'm not ready.

WeII adjusted here because there's just so many calls that way.

What hello, everyone.

I have been actively trying to do less of logging like this recently just because it doesn't make me feel great when I look back on myself when I'm just like slopping out.

But just to give you a bit of an update, I didn't want to look like this because I've been a bit run down recently.

It's not anything Major Atal.

It's the same thing that happened before Christmas.

Remember when I got ill and then I got better than ill again?

That's kind of what happened again, So I'm not really sure what's going on at the moment.

I'm seeing how it's going.

Like I woke up this morning, six AM, raring to go, did a banging PT session.

And then as the day went on, I'm just like I physically like, has taken up.

So as much as it's just a little bit of a run down this well, I'm not sure why, because I've just had a week off.

So anyway, this video is not about me being ill, but stuff is happening and I want to update you.

Because today has also been a slow one for me in terms of productivity that, yes, they had such a lot of work was so happy.

But I did want to update you well and just kind of bring you up to speed because for this staircase that we are settled at the moment in terms of fitting, obviously not painting, it is pretty much there.

Andi spent the day kind of finishing this off on dhe.

So much progress has happened with staircase down to the basement as well.

My new coffee table has just arrived.

So I thought that we could spruce that up style that together because I got so many compliments on my styling of my console table that I thought, even though I keep it so simple, maybe we could have a look at that together.

I need to also give The glass is clean, but I'm so in love with it.

It's a small change, but it's a change that felt right for me.

And that's kind of yeah, where both the cat's asleep links is asleep on my clothes and let me sleep in her bedroom, and I ordered the lights.

So the new lights that are gonna be going above here.

A big, gorgeous pendent light is going to be hanging above here and also above the other staircase I ordered today and I'm over the moon.

I was literally seconds from buying them on Dhe.

I then found them with, like, over £200 off each.

So I bought both of them and saved myself over £400.

I waas so, so happy, so happy.

That's the way the win, and I'll link them down below.

I found them at a place called the Lighting Source or light source.

Such stunning lights.

In fact, we've had a nightmare with the lights in the cloakroom toilet, which I actually don't end up telling you about that.

I just made quite a few orders from a shop called House of Isabella on Dhe.

I'm like, at my wits end with them, because just every time it's been like a bit of a problem.

So when we ordered our living room lights, they told us that they broken and they were out stock and then the same thing.

Now we've got, like, one light on the wall, and it's out of stock everywhere.

So we're now currently looking for other lights and seeing if they're gonna give us a refund.

But that is kind of what's happening in there.

But I don't think I've shown you an update in there.

No, I haven't.

So I'll show you in there as well.

And then on Monday, our new flooring goes down, which is I'm going up tomorrow to Michael's Field.

I think this will be in the next little in this club.

I'm not too sure yet depends on how long this log gets, but I'm going to Malcolm's feel tomorrow.

Thio, Sort out the carpet up here on the runners for the stairs on also have a shop with a very exciting store.

I think you say it a re g.

Bianchi.

I think that's how they would Please do not quote me on that.

I'm going up to see them and going Thio meet the team because they are working with us on our hallways.

We are matching the floor to the downstairs down downstairs on just really exciting partnership, and they honestly have been amazing.

We wanted to find somewhere that was kind of like a bit of a hub of flooring on DDE that is what they are.

So basically, they are helping us sort our flooring, and it's just a really exciting partnership.