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Your house, your problems.

  • Siobhan Lam
  • Oct 30, 2014
  • 1 min read

Having your own house is LOVELY.

You can decorate it how you please, potter around in your pyjamas all day in it should you choose too ... in other words, you don't answer to anyone else but you. See ya later landlords, never liked you anyway!

Which is a delight but also where ISSUES arise.

We had a rather dramatic long weekend at Casa di Bear - it involved blocked drains and overflowing toilets and it really brought home the fact that when you own your own home ... you are totally alone. If you don't resolve your house issues, no-one else is going to. There's no snarky but obligated person on the end of the telephone - you have to take care of business yourself ... no matter how messy.

With this in mind, I wanted to share the reality of home-owning. Yes it's great and all but it also involves pulling up floorboards at 8 o' clock on a Friday night when you should at your friend's birthday bash. It means getting your hands dirty. Alot.

Have a peek.

S x

(Floorboards were definitely harmed in the making of this blog)

Now you see them...

a little shimmy and ...

See ya later floorboards!

Take it all up!

There's the culprit now

 
 
 

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April and the Bear is an award-winning DIY/ lifestyle and interiors blog. Dublin-based interior enthusiast/ blogger and entrepreneur Siobhan Lam shares her own experiences of doing up her home in Portobello ... be warned it involves head wounds, bruised shins, fire engines and never-ending mountains of dust. Don’t let this deter you though – we want to encourage and help other not-so-handy individuals to throw caution to the wind and pick up that sledge hammer, but to do so with slightly bent knees and a hard hat firmly on your head. 

 

April and the Bear blog attracts devoted readers from across the globe, we won 'Best Business Blog' at the Image.ie Blog Awards 2014 and were nominated for the 2014 The BOPS and The Blog Awards 2014 AND we were nominated for 'Best Online Shop' in the Irish Times Best Shops Competition 2015.

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