Jan 9, 2011
Goodbye Red and Yellow Walls …
In with the new year and out with the old … And absolutely out with that red and yellow! This is what our living room looked like on the...
Jan 6, 2011
Almost certainly the original wallpaper ..
I’m a bit behind as we have now moved on to the living room, but I had to stop and share this one: Busily stripping the upstairs hall of...
Dec 28, 2010
A Dining Room Christmas … and a Happy Year as a Living Room ..
We finally used our lovely new dining room, christening it with “Dinner for 13” on Christmas Day … In the festive mayhem, we forgot to...
Nov 28, 2010
A Tale of 2 Staircases ..
How did it get to be nearly the end of November! We had a mad October, getting the “Dining Room” finished (unfortunately the dining room...
Oct 18, 2010
Undoubtedly what Van Gogh would have used .. had he been ..
.. a painter and decorator .. These brushes are genius … Dulux say these brushes are great because of the “special split bristle tips...
Oct 16, 2010
The 1960s have all gone now …
When the plumbers left having relocated our boiler from the dining room to the loft room; and the very inefficient hot water tank (it...
Oct 11, 2010
Coat of many varnishes!
4 coats down .. 1 coat to go. Here is the shiny new floor in the dining room at “Fairlea” .. It’s amazing .. the floor that was...
Oct 8, 2010
"Fairlea" Nice Floorboards!
Having spent the last 2 weekends painting, and with “Dining room Dave” back this week putting up the picture rail and coving and starting...
Oct 2, 2010
The Chocolate Teapot ..
The dining room is looking smart in its coat of new paint. And yesterday, when out at the local and extensive (I am being sarcastic)...
Oct 1, 2010
The problem with chimneys ..
Is that these days we’re not using them! It’s only October and it’s raining again. There are damp spots appearing randomly on the third...
Sep 30, 2010
A fireplace is the heart of a house ..
When we moved in, I started scouring the web and some local reclamation yards for a fireplace for what will become our new dining room....
Sep 28, 2010
A 1919 half penny under the floorboards
It’s been a while since I wrote. There’s a reason why … mainly to do with the amount of time that life and our new dining room – the...
Aug 1, 2010
When is a loft conversion not a loft conversion ..
We had huge problems when we recently purchased our Victorian house – was it a 3 bedroom or 4 bedroom? According to the vendors all the...
Aug 1, 2010
My Victorian House? Or is it …
Oh dear .. We may have to change our blog name and only 3 posts in! And all, thanks to the image below: Which we found on the very...
Jul 20, 2010
A Tale of Several Wallpapers ..
So began the task of stripping the “dining room” .. When the house was built in 1900 until (probably) the early 1980’s our dining room...
Jul 16, 2010
Something special about an old house ..
Although a 110 year old house is not really considered “old” in the United Kingdom (my in laws live in a 600 year old house and the “new...