So it’s back to the drawing board with the colours now we have decided to ditch the lime wash and instead use chalk paint. There is also not much going on in the house (nothing in fact) so I shall go into a great deal of unnecessary detail about colours in this blog, for lack… Continue reading Choosing colours (again)
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Lime washing ends!
It’s been emotional. And hard work, really bloody hard work. But after trying every damn technique for lime washing and still not being happy with the results, we have decided to cut our losses and not continue with the lime wash. It has taken Cat 3 weekends just to lime wash ONE ROOM and she… Continue reading Lime washing ends!
Lime wash issues
Cat is back for the weekend and is straight back onto lime washing the walls in Zanna’s bedroom. The walls are looking very patchy, more patchy than they should we think. Lime wash isn’t a flat paint finish like modern paints, yet we are not sure we have quite got the technique right. The paler… Continue reading Lime wash issues
Archaeology
Another super cold snow day, so I waste some time sorting through our garden finds. It’s amazing how much of the pottery goes together, I even pieced some bits together like a jigsaw. Much of this was found near the house and under the study window. Apparently when things got broken they were literally thrown… Continue reading Archaeology
Snow day
Seven months and a day after we started the renovations, I woke up to a covering of snow along with the freezing fog that is still covering the village. The gate lock is frozen so I left it locked and had a ‘snow day’. Sunny June seems a long way away right now. Good to… Continue reading Snow day
Lockdown 3.0
It’s been a very quiet week. Cat’s back in Bristol until the weekend, it’s far too cold for Tom and George to return to finish, I am really suffering with my back still and now the country has gone into a third lockdown. The iced up padlock on the gate today seems very fitting. Not… Continue reading Lockdown 3.0
Lime washing begins!
We have been looking forward to this day for a very long time now, but finally lime washing the walls has begun! Farrow & Ball Lamp Room Grey, a colour chosen that picks out the blue stone in the chimney breast and I think we matched it pretty perfectly (of course… two designers!) The wall… Continue reading Lime washing begins!
Second fix electric
We are both so incredibly tired and quite frankly sick of all things house and just want to fly away to somewhere tropical, but sadly for a variety of reasons that isn’t going to happen. Cat is struggling to keep her spirits up working in the house alone and I am pretty pissed off that… Continue reading Second fix electric
Back to it
I have finally (we found these 5-6 months ago now) sorted through all the old newspapers, cleaned them with a soft brush, flattened them out as best I can and put them into the archive file in date order. There is a load of historic wallpaper that we found too but they are in the… Continue reading Back to it
Xmas not at Pear Tree
We were originally supposed to be back in the house around September/October, but when it was apparent that wasn’t going to happen our next deadline was Christmas… That has now come and gone too sadly but we did cook the turkey in the oven at Pear Tree Cottage. We accidentally purchased an enormous turkey from… Continue reading Xmas not at Pear Tree