Renovation
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Started on the dining room
I started on the Dining room today. First one piece of good news – the old Lincrusta (or Anaglypta) came off in one single piece – it was really hardly attached to the…
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Dining Room Renovation
Well we are a month in to the New Year now, and my batteries are recharged. So on to a new project – it would be getting the garden into shape but the…
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Finished the decorating
I managed to decorate the wall in the drawing room. That may not sound like much of an achievement, but the ceilings in here are so high that to put the wallpaper up,…
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Tapestry Cats
This is Saphy on a beautiful Victorian footstool. The panel on it is quite delicate and I am always nervous that Saphy will start one of her claw projects on it, so one…
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Boxing in the pipes
One job I have been putting off is down in the basement. J had to have a whole new central heating system, and in order to do this, all the pipes, which had…
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New Carpet
We got the new carpet laid. Unfortunately the first job we are now going to have to do is decorate the walls (or at least one wall as for now I am only…
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Clearing the Drawing Room
The new carpet is coming tomorrow – essentially part six of the huge job of re-carpeting the entire house. When we moved in, every room was carpeted in the same green carpet –…
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Decorating the drawing room
This week I have embarked on decorating our drawing room. I was determined to call it that (rather than lounge or sitting room) because it sounds grand and is grand. It is not…
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Squeaky Floor
The first day we moved in, I got a nasty surprise when I walked across the drawing room floor and nearly tripped as my foot sunk a couple of inches into the carpet. …
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Another woodworking project
This bookcase used to stand on top of a desk in my grandmother’s house in Blackpool. Unfortunately the desk was thrown away years ago and the bookcase has been in a garage for…
