If you’ve been wondering why the renovation updates suddenly stopped, you’re certainly not alone. When we bought our Andalusian townhouse, I had every intention of documenting the journey as it happened. I imagined regular posts showing each stage of the transformation, sharing the discoveries, the challenges and, hopefully, the successes along the way. Eighteen months of dust, discoveries and bringing an Andalucian townhouse back to life

Then reality arrived.

As anyone who has taken on an old property will know, renovating a house is a full-time occupation in itself. Add in learning new skills, dealing with unexpected surprises (and there have been plenty!), sourcing materials, managing tradespeople, navigating Spanish bureaucracy and somehow fitting normal life around it all, and something had to give. Unfortunately, it was the blog.

Over the last eighteen months we’ve spent far more time covered in dust than we care to now think about. When we haven’t been working on the house, we have been plugged into laptops, focusing on our client website design work. Most days have ended with just enough energy to admire what we’d managed to achieve, either renovation or design wise, before collapsing into bed, ready to start again the next morning. The good news is that while the blog has been quiet, the renovation certainly hasn’t.

We’ve made enormous progress. Some projects have gone exactly to plan, others have taught us lessons we’d rather not have learned, and there have been moments of sheer delight alongside the occasional “What on earth have we done?” experience that anyone restoring an old house will probably recognise.

Looking back, perhaps there’s a silver lining. Instead of isolated updates, I can now tell the story properly—with the benefit of hindsight. I can share not only what we did, but what worked, what didn’t, what we’d do differently, and the many unexpected discoveries that only reveal themselves over time. So over the coming weeks and months I’ll be catching up. I’ll take you through the renovation room by room and project by project, sharing plenty of photographs, practical tips, costs where they’re useful, and the little moments that have made this adventure so memorable.

Thank you to everyone who has continued to visit the blog and ask how the house is progressing. Your encouragement has meant a great deal. The renovation story isn’t over—far from it. In many ways, it’s only just beginning, and I’m looking forward to bringing you along for the next chapter.