Alice de Araujo

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• Alice de Araujo

  I have lots of daughters and dogs and am DIY renovating a giant Victorian house in south Manchester.

• Hints and Tips for how to DIY Install an Ikea Kitchen — Alice de Araujo

  As long-term readers of this blog know, we're big fans of Ikea kitchens. We installed a scarlet red gloss Faktum Ikea kitchen in our old house, and a grey Bodbyn Metod kitchen in our current Victorian...

• How to Make Kitchen Worktops from Scaffold Boards — Alice de Araujo

  I get asked about our DIY scaffold board kitchen worktops a lot so thought I'd share a post about how we made them.  Years ago when I was collecting images of kitchen inspiration, this was one of my ...

• Major DIY Projects — All Posts — Alice de Araujo

  Hints and Tips for how to DIY Install an Ikea Kitchen

• My Top Ten Tips for DIY Novices — Alice de Araujo

  My husband and I have been doing DIY together for about twelve years now. We've been together for longer than that but spent the first couple of years of our relationship drinking cocktails and sleepi...

• How To Fit A Belfast Sink On An Ikea Kitchen Cabinet — Alice de Araujo

  One of our main objectives in designing the kitchen (in addition to covering the obvious like having actual cupboards to store saucepans as opposed to tatty cardboard boxes, an oven big enough to stuf...