Renovation
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Tiles and bread
We had the tilers here today putting up the new tiles in our main bathroom. This room was not in a good state when we moved in – it had a hideous 1990s…
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Basement Lounge
J’s lounge in the basement is a huge room with a bay window. For a basement it is really quite bright and airy but when we moved in it was not showing at…
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Saphy’s first bird
I had a hard day yesterday working at decorating. J’s basement lounge was basically in need of quite a lot of TLC – it had pretty awful wallpaper and a carpet that was…
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R’s Office
Now that the pink wall paper and disgusting old curtains are gone, you can start to see what a gorgeous room R’s office is going to be. I renovated the original Victorian fireplace. …
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The End of the Beginning
I know we still have a long way to go, but today we made some major steps forwards. All the new flooring went in to the basement. The intention had been to paint…
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New Plumbing
The first night we moved in I tried out the only shower on the first floor and nearly boiled/froze myself to death with it because the temperature oscillated about randomly without any input…
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Fast or Slow?
I’ve always been a fan of the JFDI protocol. To give an analogy – you are trapped by your ankle by a giant clam and the tide is coming in. It is lose…
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Doors and Garden
I undercoated the ground floor back door and the internal basement door today. I had been going to put the top coat on as well, but I realized that the paint I had…
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Finishing my boudoir
R went back to Donich Lodge today having managed to demolish the hideous wardrobe in the room which is going to be his office. This was another example of rather unusual DIY skills…
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Nice and not so nice
We have discovered some nice things and some, well – not so nice. I had had an idea in my head that the bottom part of the wall in the entrance hall was…
