Hello,

I am around half-way through renovating a house that I bought with my wife in March. When we moved in the house was very very old and we have had to practically strip everything back to the original features; 70s wallpaper, art-deco fireplaces, 15 layers of paint, 3 layers of carpet. What we are left with is a beautiful victorian semi with many of the original features that it had when it was built.

Well, we will be left with that once we finish the kitchen, modernise the bathroom and sort out the dining room. The strangest thing is that the house was modernised once before, in 1953. Back then they ripped out all of the victorian fireplaces, covered all of the beautiful doors in plywood, covered the floorboards in carpet and generally made the house a dark place to live in. This got me thinking about what will happen in another 30 years time.

Will our modernisation be considered outdated; most probably. Someone will come along and rip out the renovated victorian fireplaces, cover the doors in plywood, carpet our renovated floorboards and put up 70s wallpaper again (maybe not the last one but you don't know). Victorian houses are clearly in fashion right now but they probably won't be in 30 years.

My point? I don't have one today.

Have a good sunday.