I’ve spent the past six weeks living on a building site. There are workmen everywhere and dust on every conceivable surface, but I’m finally seeing some progress. As I write, the cornicing is going up in our bedroom and the first floor is just about habitable — my husband and I have been squatting in our loft room, so I’m very much looking forward to having my first bath soon.
We’re part of Generation Renovation, if you will, one of the thousands on Instagram living the #renolife. There’s been a boom in home improvements — in 2020, the amount spent rose by 36 per cent compared with the year before. But thanks to Brexit, the pandemic and the fact that everyone else has had exactly
