Tag: home
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Trip hazard
I’ve been meaning to paint the utility for ages. Being one of the rooms I plastered, Chris wasn’t happy with the smoothness of the finish, so post first-coat I filled in the worst of the bumps, with the plan to cover it up in the second coat. There was also the plasterboard around the new…
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Second coat
Sometimes things take an age but at the end you don’t seem to have much to show for it – that’s very much true of the second coat of paint. The second coat on the study/baby room wasn’t too bad except shifting around the various bits of bobs currently housed in there. Having filled and…
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One down…
With a hectic Christmas over, I think both of us just wanted to collapse on a sofa and not get up until it was time to get back to work. But with very few weekends left till the baby arrives, it seemed wise to push through and get on with some DIY. The floor in…
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Layers
It’s always the little jobs that seem to take an age. After previously filling and sanding the skirting in the lounge and part of the kitchen, I thought I’d do the quick job of painting it. However, the cheap and cheerful wood paint we’d brought was thin as water, and four coats later the small…
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Inside – outside
We spent half a day sorting through several moving boxes currently living in our study, trying to remember why we have so much stuff. By the end we managed to relocate many of the items to elsewhere in the house, or offer them up to charity. What remains is a box of pictures and another…
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Time off?
We’d booked off two blocks of time, a Thursday/Friday on week 1, and Wedsday/Thursday/Friday in week 2. We’d hoped long weekend number 1 would get the kitchen floor finished off, but as week 2 rolled round there was still plenty to do. First we moved the furniture off the final area in need of treatment.…
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The Grind
Grouting and regrinding the concrete floor in the kitchen was not a job I wanted to do. Chris had decided on it from the moment we’d finished grinding and polishing it last time, feeling that grouting would fill in some small holes and strengthen the concrete. Having lived through the dusty hell of the first…
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Biscuits
It’s been a busy couple of weeks – but we managed to squeeze in a few jobs along the way. With our first fully van-based week long holiday looming, we wanted to get a few small jobs done in the campervan. Chris cut out some spare pieces of plywood to create a top for the…
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A little Carpentry
With the long weekend we thought we’d get a decent amount of work done. Of course things never go as quickly or as smoothly as we’d like but a few jobs got moved forwards despite a number of delays. We decided not to bother trying to straighten the lounge windowsill, and just stuck it down…
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Cork
We’d ummed and ahhed about the lounge floor for a long time. My preference would have been carpet, but Chris wanted hard flooring. While I’m happy with wood or tiles in other rooms, the lounge is a room where I like to lie on the floor and I wanted something warm. In the end we…
Ruined 