As you can see in the pic below, or here
the garage door surround was getting old and rotten, but a trip to B&Q for some wood and paint soon fixed that:
October 2008 Archives
Seems the previous tenants of our house left it in a mess, as well as failing to pay the rent or the bills and leaving the house with a token meter and a bomb site in the back garden.
The landlord has made a herculean effort to tidy it all up again, and the back garden is now lovely. But there was still an enormous heap of garden rubbish and rotting furniture to the side of the garage, so in a fit of enthusiasm (seeing as we don't have the keys to the house yet), we got a skip delivered.
This is how much stuff came out, I don't understand how it all fit in there in the first place:
The landlord has made a herculean effort to tidy it all up again, and the back garden is now lovely. But there was still an enormous heap of garden rubbish and rotting furniture to the side of the garage, so in a fit of enthusiasm (seeing as we don't have the keys to the house yet), we got a skip delivered.
This is how much stuff came out, I don't understand how it all fit in there in the first place:
We have spent what seems like forever looking for a new place. It needs to be private, but close to town; in a reasonably nice area; and with somewhere to store a lot of juggling workshop kit. We looked at big nice places in the middle of nowhere. We looked at little terraced houses close to town, where the neighbours walk through your back garden to get to their front door, and you can still see the outhouses where the toilets used to be.
A couple of weeks ago we finally found a house in Walkley that seems spot on. It's a semi. It has a garage, a shed, gardens front and back, and a kitchen that anywhere else would be tiny, but for Sheffield is positively palatial.
Here's the house from the back garden:
From the front garden - as you can see, the house is on a hill, so the front garden goes past the garage, up some steps to the house:
And here's one of the back garden itself.
At the front there you can see the edge of the pond, at the back there is a shed and on the right just out of the picture is a small patio with a bench. It's just a shame the back door is at the side rather than onto the patio.
A couple of weeks ago we finally found a house in Walkley that seems spot on. It's a semi. It has a garage, a shed, gardens front and back, and a kitchen that anywhere else would be tiny, but for Sheffield is positively palatial.
Here's the house from the back garden:
From the front garden - as you can see, the house is on a hill, so the front garden goes past the garage, up some steps to the house:
And here's one of the back garden itself.
At the front there you can see the edge of the pond, at the back there is a shed and on the right just out of the picture is a small patio with a bench. It's just a shame the back door is at the side rather than onto the patio.
