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Ready
It was a couple of late nights finishing things off before our visitor. One of the jobs I had it in my head I wanted to finish off was finishing the skirting and architrave in the landing. Completely non-essential but I just wanted to get it done. After more filling and sanding I was able…
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Edgy
With this being the last weekend before my nan comes to stay with us, we were pushing on trying to get things ready for her visit. The main priority was to get the spare room finished. One fiddly job was putting up the wooden boards to cover the gaps in the ceiling. Once up they…
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A Big Pile of… Soil
With a couple of other obligations this weekend, we didn’t get an awful lot done, but little jobs are better than no jobs. One little job I decided to do was plug up the last of the gaps in the landing ceiling. The gaps were letting in cold air from the attic, so first I…
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Nesting
After I had dutifully written and posted my blog last weekend, Chris decided he hadn’t managed to get enough done afterall. Heading back upstairs after dinner he spent the evening creating sawdust as he cut and fitted the desk. As we were only going to have one day free over the next weekend, and we…
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Moving on up
Chris has gotten the hang of online auctions and managed to buy a Victorian drop arm sofa for the kitchen. Though we’d already bought a small white sofa, Chris was worried this was still too big for the room, so found something more compact. It will need recovering and restuffing but at a cost of…
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First coat
With a weekend away planned, we tried to get a few jobs done in the evenings in order to keep things moving forward. My first job was to finish the lime plaster on the stone wall. With the plastering finished the next job will be to fill the cracks and paint. Having done the previous…
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Top-down
After trying out a number of different colours for the study we settled on the only colour Chris has so far given a strong opinion on. He struggles to visualise what a colour might look like across a whole room, so getting an opinion from him is usually an exercise in futility. But for once,…
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The Big New Year Push
After a big push before Christmas, we were looking forward to a break and a chance to recover before getting back to work in our week and a bit off after the festivities were over. What we forgot, as we do every year, is that you don’t leave Christmas feeling rested, but simply exhausted in…
Ruined 