Tuesday 23 February 2021
My partner and I always knew we were buying a fixer-upper, but heck did we imagine we’d get the keys to our first home at the beginning of a global pandemic. In April 2020 we started work on our small Victorian terrace absolutely delighted, but a tad confused. How to go about your first ever renovation when hardware shops and builders merchants are closed, and your local Sainsbury’s can’t even get hold of some dried pasta? Planning our dream home was going to be a digital affair.
The thing people really underestimate with a renovation is just how many decisions you’re making at once, especially when every single room needs TLC. So I naturally did what any sane Millennial would do. I spent every waking moment of my furlough on Instagram and Pinterest trying to figure this thing out. While I found so many beautiful homes on social media, something struck me as ‘off.’ Nearly everyone was white?