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A rare day just pottering at home, after a sunny few days on the Essex coast and a slightly mad dash back for trick-or-treat fun! 🎃👻

That was followed by the original Beetlejuice, which the small one absolutely loved. His first proper 'horror' film! 😂

Today, we've carved pumpkins, roasted the seeds, tackled the washing, chainsawed and chopped the wood pile and generally given the garden a bit of a tidy-up.

Even remembered to put all the garden furniture away - top-level adulting! 🙌

Anyway fires are lit and we're all enjoying at bit of screen time. Insta, Roblox and football… although I suspect someone is also researching cement mixers! Could some long overdue outdoor projects be about to restart? 🙏

Anyway, thought I'd share a few snaps from the garden. I'm not Autumn's biggest fan but I'm definitely enjoying the lovely garden colours this year! 🍂

#autumnvibes🍁
#gardenlove
#countrygarden
#gardenjobs by @the_mill_makeover

Even with the storm still giving it some welly this morning the light in the kitchen deserved a quick pic!

No titivating (usually I would move dead plants and the sourdough starter) - just a quick snap from the sofa!

Swipe to see the room as was - for anyone new here it was the living room!

The big alcove is now the pantry and gap was sealed so we could move the stairs into the main hallway.

It might have taken nearly four years of cooking on a plug in hob and an air fryer but we got there in the end!! 💪

#kitchenremodel
#kitchendesign
#devol
#kitchengoals
#copperworktop by @the_mill_makeover

Six years since we ditched the seaside and moved to the country!

We were completely unprepared (mentally and financially) for what we'd taken on. There's a reason people have surveys it transpires! 🙄

We kicked off with a year long battle to get the place registered as residential rather then commercial and a toddler having huge allergic reactions (probably to black mould)!

We demolished a cattery and the majority of the 14 sheds and outbuildings ourselves. Took out a massive loan to replace the leaking windows and doors we hadn't budgeted for, shivered a lot thanks to a broken heating system and an open staircase up to the unheated attics.

We painstakingly stripped back every single room and spent nearly four years without a kitchen - the list of ticked off jobs could go on forever!! 😆

The end is now in sight - just one room to go, our bedroom to redo (massive leak) garden projects to finish and a snagging list longer than I am tall!

Would I do it all over again? Would I fook!! 😆

#renolife
#countrylife
#diyreno
#millhouse by @the_mill_makeover

Making the most of even the smallest space and usually painting in pink....👌

#hallwayinspo
#deskspace
#paintitpink
#mycountryhome by @the_mill_makeover

What a stunner of a day! 🥰 🌞

#kitchenrenovation
#mediterraneankitchen
#countryhome
#millhouse by @the_mill_makeover

Just home from the best girls weekend in a stunning country house near Ripon.

Here's the best bits - house and garden edition!! Some of which I'll be shamelessly taking inspiration from. 🥰

Such a great place to stay!! Every detail has been thought of inc hot tubs, a cinema style lounge, ice machines, a pool table and every kitchen gismo in existence.

Not an ad, just too fab not to share!!

@hutton_mount_retreats by @the_mill_makeover

Three years and eight months since we ripped the old kitchen out we are DONE!! *apart from the pantry! 🤣

The @devolkitchens Sebastian Cox kitchen stole my heart and I'm so happy we stuck to our guns to get the kitchen of our dreams.

We've invested in the cabinetry and appliances but by doing everything else including the fitting (but excluding the electrics) ourselves we've made it happen!

The 'Ibiza finca meets servants quarters' brief is nailed!! 🙌

#devolkitchens
#kitcheninspiration
#kitchenreno
#countryhomes by @the_mill_makeover

Loving this weather! And apart from the crispy grass so is the garden!! 🌺

#countrygarden #northumberlandhome
#millhouse
#loveyourgarden by @the_mill_makeover

Wild and wonderful!! 🥰

Pristine lawns are over rated?

Country garden|Wildflower meadow|Fruit trees by @the_mill_makeover

It's not finished (of course 🤣) but this room has quite literally transformed the way we live in the house!

Everyone wants to hang out in here - even the cats!!

We still need to add shelves above the cabinet runs, add the skirting and fit the pantry out, but for now we're just enjoying it!!

#devolkitchens
#kitcheninspo
#kitchenrenovation by @the_mill_makeover

Roses, lavender, salvia and foxgloves - what's not to love!!? 🥰

So many special roses in here representing both happy and sad things - Mother's Day, the death of my own Mum, birthdays, writers I love, the place I was born-the list goes on!

I think that's what extra special about roses....they're often chosen to represent something and always chosen because you're drawn to certain flower. They don't just plug gaps!

What's your favourite rose and why?

I'll go first - Emily Bronte because I'm a sucker for a classic novel (and Wuthering Heights is 👌) and For your Eyes Only - because I grew up on Bond!!

#countrygarden #englishcountrygarden
#rosegarden
#davidaustinroses by @the_mill_makeover

Not quite finished but the kitchen is already transforming how we live and function in the house. I love it!! 🥰

I've had so many moments of self doubt (and hatred 🤣) that my 'genius' idea to move the kitchen from one end of the house to the other was insanity but it's just further proof to always trust your gut!!!

Maybe figure out if you can afford it first so you don't spend nearly four years of saving and slaving to make it happen 🤣 but hey life's too short for too much planning!!

Sometimes you just have to go for it!!

#kitchenrenovation
#kitcheninspiration
#kitchendecor
#sebastiancox
#devol by @the_mill_makeover