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Historical Maps: A Brilliant Housewarming Gift Idea
I wondered the other day what our area might have looked like around the time our house was built 124 years ago. I thought to myself wouldn’t it be cool if there was a website where I could tap in our postcode and instantly be presented with a high-resolution, colour, zoomable map of what our neighbourhood looked like a century ago. Well bust my buffers if just such a website doesn’t already exist, step forward the totally brilliant National Library of Scotland’s Map Images Website.
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Chalk Board Baby Stair Gate
How to make a simple, attractive, entertaining and impenetrable baby stair gate
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Creating a new larder under the stairs
The Victorians took their food seriously – in larger houses there could be several rooms, each dedicated to a distinct stage of food storage, preparation and clean-up. We kept it to one, transforming a dingy cupboard under the stair into a larder.
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Skimming over the Artex ceilings

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