When I was writing my blog post about ways to spruce up your bathroom for summer yesterday, I remembered that I haven’t yet shared the “finished” photos of my bathroom renovation with you. I’ve put the word finished in quotation marks because, while all the plumbing, tiling and painting might be finished, I still need to get some essential accessories to really finish off the room. Do have a look at our before and during photos to see how the bathroom used to look – looking back at this reminds me just how far we’ve come even though it’s not entirely ‘finished’.
Nonetheless, I wanted to share these photos with you so that you can see how the room looks now that the new bathroom suit and tiles have been installed. We bought the tub, sink and loo (with all taps and wastes included) from the Better Bathrooms sale back in January for £300. This has since more-than doubled in price, so I’m pleased we invested during the sales. 
The suite was delivered in February but we didn’t get a chance to start installing the bathroom until the Easter holidays. We knew we couldn’t live in the house without a look, so we took advantage of this time off to take out the old bathroom and start plumbing in the new one.
This involved changing the layout of the bathroom completely, so all-new plumbing was required. The bath was a smaller-than-average size, which meant that we can fit it across the width of the room, creating that dreamy spa-hotel design that I’ve coveted for years. Even though the tub is shorter than a usual bath, it’s wider and deeper so it really is a little too big for me – I feel like I’m in a swimming pool!
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June 26, 2017
by Cassiefairy
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Raw beetroot is one of my favourite foods. They are crisp yet tender, earthy and sweet. If you are one of the many people who have only tried cooked or pickled beetroot, be prepared to fall in love. The secret to the tastiest raw beetroot is to cut them very thinly. A mandoline is the best tool to create paper-thin slivers, but if you are confident with your knife skills, you can go the old-fashioned route. This salad is vegan, but if you are serving people who don’t mind dairy, feta cheese is really lovely folded in. 
DIY gift basket
My plan was to get a coat that’s light enough for those cooler-but-sunny-days that could be rolled up into my backpack when the weather heats up. I’m planning to spend a lot of my summer outdoors this year, so it the jacket also needed to be water resistant in case I got caught in a rain shower during a long walk (which has already happened to me one sunny day in May, hence the need for waterproofiness).
Sure, it was easy to find low-cost thin cotton jackets for summer, but I knew they wouldn’t keep the drizzle at bay. And most of the more weatherproof coats I found were in darker colours and reminded me of going hiking in the winter. I didn’t want to feel like a professional mountaineer, I just wanted to wear something casual that would also be practical. Wow, I’m such a grown-up!
The thriftiness here comes from the fact that you’ll be buying timeless classics so, even though trends come and go, these summer essentials will stay in your wardrobe year-in, year-out. For this blog post I’ve combined some sandals from 5th Avenue and a shove-it-all-in backpack from Deichmann, as well as my favourite sunnies, and I’m pretty sure that I won’t need to buy anything more this summer. 
First up are the sandals. When I was shopping for a ‘timeless’ pair of summer shoes, I knew that they needed to meet a few criteria before I could invest. Firstly, they needed to be flat; I love to stroll along the promenade in the summer and there’s no way that I could enjoy a long walk in any kind of heels.
