London, Nov 12 (ANI): After a year of marriage, Hollywood actor Ioan Gruffudd is trying for a child with wife Alice Evans.

The Fantastic Four II actor has even stopped drinking and has begun taking DIY instead in a bid to become a father pretty soon.

Weve been married for over a year now so the next step is starting a family, putting down roots. We are trying to get pregnant, The Daily Express quoted Gruffudd, as saying.

Ioan is busy building a family nest for wife and the awaited one at their L.A. home.

Im busy doing up the house, Ioan said.

I am blessed that I dont have to work. I thought Id go stir crazy but its amazing how you evolve. Life is wonderful. I wake up with a smile on my face, potter around the garden, just living life, really perhaps for the first time, he added. (ANI)