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
Category: Sitting Room
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
Bite sized pieces
This week I am feeling a little better than I have recently, my back is a great deal better thankfully so I am in a position where I can do more to help Cat out with the house. I am determined to do something little every day this week while she is away working, bite… Continue reading Bite sized pieces
Beam cleaning (again)
In a much needed boost to moral, Cat has help today from Colin who is here to assist with the big clean up process of the beams and stone chimney breast on the stairs and landing. Colin is good on ladders, Cat is not, so his help is massively appreciated here! Starting from the top… Continue reading Beam cleaning (again)
Winding down for Xmas
Today it rained and rained and rained so Tom and George arrived and left soon after, although George did brush down the mortar that wasn’t too wet before he went. George will be back tomorrow morning to do the same. Another cracking photo of Cat (sorry). She has tackled the kitchen and I wish I… Continue reading Winding down for Xmas
Smash it up, smash it up
This is what I found when unlocking the house this morning… We had leant the stone for the steps against the neighbours wall (that Tom rebuilt last week) so that Cat could jet wash them at the weekend, but the wall was still intact yesterday. It was a stormy night with gusty winds, so I… Continue reading Smash it up, smash it up
Fitting the old shutters
Way back in the summer when Glynn started repairing this sitting room window, he discovered that what we thought were wooden panels on the side of the window recess were in fact old shutters that had been nailed open, so we decided we would renovate them and get them working again. With the movement of… Continue reading Fitting the old shutters
One step beyond
Saturday morning, Cat is back for the weekend and we are at Warwick Reclamation looking for stone steps. We need two front door steps and two steps to go from the front path up to the garden, to be built into the new retaining wall. Mark, who was super helpful, spent a long time with… Continue reading One step beyond
Graffiti regrets
I am sure Cat will find this funny when she returns on Friday. This is so true. Even Jasper got a BIG mention. It’s that time of year when fence posts grow gloves. Dan is cutting the elm floor board to fit the edge of the tread that he is repairing. He is extending it… Continue reading Graffiti regrets