These are the proposed plans for the house which I have used to create the plan for the electrician showing where all the lights, switches, sockets, etc. need to be. I have just realised it would probably be useful to upload the plans to the website so you can see the house layout, I will… Continue reading Going to plan (for once)
Category: Bathroom
Carpet bonus
Our lovely neighbours were having a new carpet fitted in their sitting room and have offered us their old one. It is only a couple of years old but has a coffee stain on one end (hence replacing it) which we will cut out. This is perfect for Cat’s bedroom as the old carpet in… Continue reading Carpet bonus
First radiators fitted!
Cat has Monday off, so paints the second coat in the study. When the paint is wet you can see all the tool marks and hand prints from the plasterers in the lime plaster. It is most bizarre, they disappear (mostly) when the paint is dry. Cutting in the last corner. Cat’s hair is still… Continue reading First radiators fitted!
A very sweary day…
Friday and Cat is off for 4 days, so we have quite a list of things we want to achieve this weekend. I pick up where I left off in the study, scrubbing the plaster and orange dust from the stone wall. The old fireplace looks fabulous now it has been cleaned (again). The stone… Continue reading A very sweary day…
Cleaning the house with a toothbrush
My task this week is to clean the plaster and orange dust from the timbers and stone in the study, ready for Cat and Colin to paint this room at the weekend. These are the tools for removing the plaster from the timbers, a chisel and a small wire brush the same size as a… Continue reading Cleaning the house with a toothbrush
More colour choices…
Another delivery from Fenwick & Tilbrook, this time Major Tom in Pure Matt emulsion as we ran out of this in claypaint for the modern wall on the landing and it needs at least one more coat. As it is modern plaster we are going to paint over it in the emulsion as it will… Continue reading More colour choices…
Scrubber
I have had to get some more wire brushes as I have already nearly worn this one out from scrubbing the stone walls of the sitting room. I may get through a few of these! And knuckles, I have scuffed all my knuckles. I must start wearing gloves. The sitting room wall next to the… Continue reading Scrubber
In your face, lime wash!
A frosty, early morning walk for Jasper. It was another cold weekend but a very busy one with both of us up before 6am on Saturday. Cat left for a work reccie and I had to deliver a new bed to the house in London that I manage. I was too busy to take any… Continue reading In your face, lime wash!
Claypaints
More difficult decisions (for us)! We are using the bottom colour for the sitting room and, as we love the top colour and really want to use it, we are going to use this in the study. My reticence is that the study is lovely and light and bright at the moment and, as this… Continue reading Claypaints
All hands on deck
Colin is up the ladders again for the weekend, back to help Cat paint the ceilings in the stairwell and landing. There is a lot of cutting in to do in the stairwell as there are so many beams and edges and there are two mist coats to do before two top coats! We have… Continue reading All hands on deck