Muddy Stilettos

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Is there anything more insane than knocking down half your house during autumn/winter? Well, yes as it happens. How about: knocking down half a house, and continuing to live in the other half in two bedrooms with three teenage children until mid 2025? 



Now let&#8217;s throw in the home-run six day a week business (Muddy Stilettos started at my kitchen table and I&#8217;m still often surrounded by rogue Cheerios) plus GSCEs and A-levels for my kids next summer and what you have, dear reader, is my living hell for the next nine months. So, um, fancy watching it? 



It&#8217;s a unique, once in a lifetime opportunity for me to document my idiocy and hopefully help any of you thinking of doing your own renovation or build to learn from my mistakes. Because there will be plenty &#8211; I am an absolute novice; so innocent that I didn&#8217;t even know what a &#8216;footing&#8217; was until the builder gently explained last week it wasn&#8217;t anything to do with measurement. 



And so I bring you The House That Muddy Built, in partnership with <a href="https://www.duluxheritage.co.uk/en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dulux Heritage</a> &#8211; the perfect brand to bring my down-on-its-luck but lovely mid-century house back to life with 112 beautiful colours to choose from (and yes I&#8217;d like you to help me choose which ones).



I&#8217;ll be posting useful features on the House That Muddy Built tab on your homepage, from the secrets to nailing a great kitchen to how to get the best from your architect &#8211; and frankly who better to ask than Muddy&#8217;s architect <a href="https://www.bergendycooke.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bergendy Cooke</a> whose practise just won international Hotel of the Year 2024?!



In the meantime, for honest, no-filter, behind the scenes carnage, please buckle up and my personal <a href="https://www.instagram.com/herobrown_muddy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">instagram feed</a> which is dedicated to the house build and my own unravelling sanity, with occasional digressions as I travel around.



<a href="https://www.instagram.com/herobrown_muddy/">herobrown_muddy</a>



Words: Hero Brown, Founder &amp; Editor-in-Chief 



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Behold the carnage of the Muddy house build!

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