Tag: diy
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Making space
With spring around the corner, I headed to my first volunteer day at the community garden, while Chris tried to tick off a big list of jobs. Firstly he put some finishing touches on the ventilation system, cutting down and connecting up the pipe in the spare bedroom, and cutting down the black tubes protruding…
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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…
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The Grind
I spent a day finishing off the plastering on the kitchen wall, starting with the remaining areas surrounding the bare stone wall. I would have like to leave more of the stone bare but the position of the wiring meant it wasn’t possible. Still I think what’s remaining will look nice. Once the lime plastering…
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Tortoise and the Hare
This week brought our first touch of snow, though none of it settled. The roads are really icy however, and it seems the gritters don’t believe in salting little roads like ours, so getting plenty of ice skating practice on the morning dog walks. I finished off the bathroom coving this week, painting over the…
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