Tag: restoration
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Waiting for Baby
Having been set free on my maternity leave, but no baby having appeared just yet, I used the time to tick off a few more jobs. With the first layer of plaster finally dry on the fireplace, I was able to apply the final coat of lime plaster. A light sand and I painted it…
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Baby ready?
We’re a little late on getting the nursery set up. This is partly because the baby will sleep in our room for the first few months anyway, but also because we struggled to find a local carpet-fitter who will fit grass carpets. While in theory we could fit the carpet ourselves, we’re both a little…
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With a little Help from our Friends
Having originally thought we could keep the existing open fireplace, Chris eventually realised it was too rusted to save, and found a replacement. We started by chipping out the old fire, which went surprisingly easily. Next we needed to sweep the chimney, but this was easier said than done. The chimney was unfortunately not entirely…
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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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Still Windowsills…
Time keeps ticking away, and the baby is getting bigger and bigger. At 25 weeks into the pregnancy we still have plenty we want to get done before the due date. So despite not having much time, with busy weekends and dark, uninviting evenings, we still tried to get a few jobs done, to move…
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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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