1960's to now : our renovation

[Phill_1981]

croakey said:

they're from HR Johnsons and called Leaf, i think topps tiles sell them as seagrass for a fair bit more money

Thanks Croakey!

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Great to see such impressive progress. Well done.

[croakey]

The patio/path continues... money is running low so once this is done it's over me to do the other bits and pieces!
(Ignore the washing... it was the only chance I'd had to take some pictures!)







This forum still doesn't seem to like photobucket links it seems!

[Emeye]

Chris Type R said:

Emeye said:

During my 60s house renovation, all the heavy lifting and demolition got me fit! And I enjoy destroying stuff.

For me it makes sense to pay someone to complete tasks so that I can carry on in parallel with other things. If it's the more physically demanding tasks, then so be it Almost two years in (in my case) and there's still loads to do/redo. My enthusiasm is waning.

It took me 4 and a half months working almost every evening after work, 7pm until 2 - 3am and every weekend to get ours ready to move in - the plumbing, leccy and plastering I got someone else to do. Oh and the asbestos removal. Plenty of small jobs still to do 18 month later as I too lost momentum and enthusiasm when things became less urgent.

What amazes me is that people like the OP have the time and patience to document the process on a forum as they progress - I took loads of photos, but that was it - maybe one day I will upload them.

[croakey]

Patio is literally just finished and is looking damn good if I say so myself.









... next up (when I have some money!) is the raised planters, fencing around the hardstanfing and a tidy up of the rest of the garden!!!

A very expensive experience but overall think it's made the best use of our south facing garden!

[Chris Type R]

Looking good. If it were my place, I'd get the garage/outbuilding rendered and painted white.

[croakey]

Chris Type R said:

Looking good. If it were my place, I'd get the garage/outbuilding rendered and painted white.

Suggested it but the wife likes her "cute" garage. This was the reason for the cobbles to tie the varying brick colours in.

[Emeye]

Looks good.

[croakey]

Not much progress to speak to recently, life , work, maternity pay (or lack of) have all played their part.

After my old chiminea bit the dust we've upgraded.






It's a beast!

[hyphen]

That looks lovely, where is ii from and what do you burn in it? Can you get smokeless wood.

As I've always wanted an outdoor fire, but would use it a lot and being a terraced house worried about effect of smoke on neighbours.

[croakey]

It's called a "ball of fire" from memory, that was offcuts of timber and some barn dried birch we've got knocking about.

The mesh screen stops 90% of spat out wood

[_dobbo_]

Do you put it inside when you're finished? I always worry things like that will rust like crazy if left out

[spikedjack]

Patio looks great, can you advise where you got these from? Just what I need but around 32sqm!
Cheers!

[croakey]

spikedjack said:

Patio looks great, can you advise where you got these from? Just what I need but around 32sqm!
Cheers!

I should be on commission... infinitepaving.
Kandala grey and then somethinganother green cobb setts of which I have bloody loads left!

[croakey]

Nearly upto 2 years since I first started this little blog type thing.

Daughter is now 7 months old, demanding all my attention, and as such not much has really progressed.

Don't remember if I posted this cheap pine wardrobe I bought off gumtree for £40 (looks so much better in the pics than the reality!)



It sat in the garage a year until this weekend it had a spruce up and pushed into action in the spare room.

£11 of chalk paint later (ignore Kat off eastenders ironing board.. I hate it as much as you)



Goes to show that you can save money if you're prepared to do some elbow work.

I also got told to put up some picture frames, as apparently paying £1800 for wedding photos 2 1/2 years ago they ought to be shown.



Never am I doing this again, much measuring, much levelling... and the walls no where near vertical.

Other than we've been enjoying our half finished garden and the Death Star

[_dobbo_]

croakey said:

Never am I doing this again, much measuring, much levelling... and the walls no where near vertical.

I started a similar project with a huge variety of picture frames we'd accumlated. After putting about 3 rawlplugs in I went out and got these, absolutely transformed the experience:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Medium-Picture-Ha...

looks great though the wardrobe in particular is a winner.

[Craikeybaby]

We have been planning on something similar with the frame, bought the frames from Ikea about 3 years ago, but haven't even chosen the photos yet.

[croakey]

It goes like this... Measure once, measure again... measure again, check the level 3 times... realise ceiling isn't perpendicular to the floor... give up and freehand guess!

[Max M4X WW]

Hi Stumbled on this thread, do you have the photos stored anywhere else at all? Interested to see them.

Thanks