This is Holmhurst!

Hear ye, hear ye. Behold the tale of our house, "Holmhurst Manor"

It's a house like any other, on a fairly common North Belfast street, but too my good lady wife and I it's a dream (with a slice of nightmare mixed in).

We have bought and lived in two house's in Belfast before we bought this house, one oldish (1930's) terrace house which needed some decoration and then a brand spanking new terrace house. The older house was nice, it felt like home, we decorated and made it ours (then sold it). Our next pad was just a shell, it was "luxury", it never ever felt like we put our own stamp on it.

At the time house prices in Northern Ireland we rocketing, we had doubled the value of our second house in a little over a year and we felt we should jump on this opportunity to make some cash and buy a family home. And so we found this house and bought it in January 2008.

I'll take you on a tour over the next few days and then we'll go through our plans and progress.