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The Scandiwegians Return to The Gingerbread Cottage Part 2
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All about the return of the Scandiwegians to our beautiful old cottage in Reigate Surrey England. We discuss our bathrooms and flooring choices on a tight budget. Our Gingerbread House is a bit of a mix of styles that we call Victorian Cottage meets Scandinavian Modern, which may sound strange but we think works rather well.
The Scandiwegians Return to The Gingerbread Cottage Part 1
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About the Scandiwegians return to their beloved house after nearly a year away while building work was carried out. In part one we discuss how the limited budget affected the build, especially the kitchen. Our Gingerbread House is a bit of a mix of styles that we call Victorian Cottage meets Scandinavian Modern, which may sound strange but we think works rather well.
The Scandiwegians Become Cellar Dwellers
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And how we ended up taking our product photos in a very unusual spot! The Scandiwegians live in a beautiful 150 year old cottage and we absolutely love it. But it had some big disadvantages - it was very small, rather dark, ridiculously draughty and, most inconvenient of all, the staircase was so narrow and winding that we couldn't get furniture upstairs! To get furniture in or out of the upstairs rooms we had to remove the windows including the frames and hoist things through the first floor windows, which wasn't exactly practical. So we saved and saved and saved and when...
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