Tag: kitchen
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Fiddly and annoying
It’s been a long time since I last posted – that’s largely because it’s been a long time since we’ve been able to do a decent bit of DIY. Between our holiday to Norway, friends weddings and a few other commitments, we’ve barely had time to pick up a hammer. Although it’s nice to do…
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Puzzled
Filling, sanding and painting skirting is very boring, so I thought I’d take a break from this mind-numbing task to do something completely non-urgent, but more satisfying and fun. We have a number of piles of rocks in the garden, which need to be rebuilt into drystone walls. Drystone walls are better for wildlife than…
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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 