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Beautify
We had spent a long time thinking about how to design the stairs to maximise space. In the end we settled on a banister attached to the wall, with slats on the otherside to stop people falling off the stairs. Chris ordered oak slates and a pine beam to attach the slats to. We then…
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Chris’s Big Week Off
Chris is changing jobs, and wisely decided to take off a week between. This has given him some time to focus on some of the jobs that he’s been wanting to get done. Unfortunately, as I’ve been working, I don’t have many photos of some of Chris’s work, as he doesn’t take any. He spent…
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Timber
One of the biggest disagreements myself and Chris have had about the house renovation has been how many trees to take out in the garden. Having been abandoned for forty years, the majority of the garden was covered in tall trees or scrub. Personally, I would prefer not to take out any trees – as…
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Strip and Paint
It’s been a busy start to the year, with Chris off skiing, and me having two house guests, in the form of Chris’s brother’s dog Ned and my friend Becky. With an extra doggy guest arriving, we wanted to protect the stairs from damage by staining them. I did two coats, with a sand before…
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Stairs
The very dull world of installing skirting kept me busy for a good week. Even once it was attached there was the filling, sanding, second filling, second sanding, caulking and of course first coat and second. It’s done anyway, aside for the doorway, which is complicated as it currently catches on the door. With the…
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Touch of Paint
With guests coming to stay soon, I wanted to tidy up the last few bits in the guest bedroom. This meant filling and sanding a few areas, and then painting the window reveals and coving. I bought a second curtain and put up the curtain pole on the second window. Because of the wonkiness of…
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Coverings
I’ve been plodding away on the boxing in the spare room. I filled and sanded the screw holes, used expandy foam, filler and caulke around the edges, and painted the whole thing with primer. The final step was a couple of coats of white wood paint. I located a pot and painted the wood. Then,…
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Shedding
I can’t say that I’m particularly excited about building the garden shed. This is largely because there are undone jobs I look at every day inside the house I’d rather be getting on with. But Chris has been dreaming of a shed ever since we moved in, and says I can’t replace the stairs till…
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Background features
With weekends pretty busy I’ve been trying to get a few little jobs done in the evenings where possible. But I really wanted to get on with some bigger jobs so decided to book off a few days to help move things forward. I’d been itching to panel the back of the breakfast bar for…
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Filling some gaps
We only had one day free this weekend for DIY, so I made an effort to get through a few small jobs in the evenings. I gave the lounge beams a final coat of paint, before washing the brushes, putting everything away, and then remembering the one solitary beam in the utility that still needed…
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