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Our front door is Studio Green, as is our kitchen.
If I were doing it again, I would go lighter on the front door as you will see more of the details of the mouldings etc. Dark colours hide that detail...
Hamptons6 by baconrashers, on Flickr
Here it is on the front door - I should take a better picture!
Untitled by baconrashers, on Flickr
If I were doing it again, I would go lighter on the front door as you will see more of the details of the mouldings etc. Dark colours hide that detail...
Hamptons6 by baconrashers, on FlickrHere it is on the front door - I should take a better picture!
Untitled by baconrashers, on Flickr
We took advantage of the milder dry weather this weekend to paint the front door.
2 coats of dark undercoat on the door and white on the frame.
Then nervously we start to paint the gloss.
To say we agonized over the colour is an understatement. We originally thought black or a very dark green or blue but Harry's advice on the dark colour not letting you see the detail of the door led us to reconsider. I am a complete Farrow and Ball bore now, 
simply because I like their colour palette. So we chose a colour called Inchyra Blue. It's a dark greeny blue and looks lovely with the red brick.
First coat started.
First coat done.
2 coats of dark undercoat on the door and white on the frame.
Then nervously we start to paint the gloss.
To say we agonized over the colour is an understatement. We originally thought black or a very dark green or blue but Harry's advice on the dark colour not letting you see the detail of the door led us to reconsider. I am a complete Farrow and Ball bore now, simply because I like their colour palette. So we chose a colour called Inchyra Blue. It's a dark greeny blue and looks lovely with the red brick.First coat started.
First coat done.
Ace-T said:
Very nice as always. F&B arnt the only ones out there, but certainly compared to the mainstream colours of dulux et al the F&B/Paint&Paper/DesignersGulid/LittleGreen of the world have a depth thats very nice.
We have not done much at all since the hall (I think it broke me slightly 
and this year has been a bit s
t to say the least. So I was not terribly enthusiastic when the en-suite ceiling mounted extractor stopped working the other day. OK we think, let's measure it, go to Screwfix and get a like for like. Should be relatively simple yes? Surely the level of bodgery seen in other parts of the house can't extend to this more modern installation? 
Let's start with the ceiling of the en-suite. It is dropped and paneled in some weird plastic. We thought it was so they could fit the ceiling extractor ductwork in so they didn't have to hack the original ceiling. Being good girls and boys we turn off the electric and get to work.
Turns out they did not have to put a false ceiling in. Why would you when you have not fitted any fking ducting to vent outside at all? All that lovely fking condensation has been venting into the fking floor space between this ceiling and the floor above. For years. fking incompetent s. 
To add insult to injury, the window hinges are broken and we cannot open the window without then having to borrow the neighbour's 25ft rickety ladder and hammer the fking window shut from the outside.
I can't deal with this today. Where is the fking gin? 
and this year has been a bit st to say the least. So I was not terribly enthusiastic when the en-suite ceiling mounted extractor stopped working the other day. OK we think, let's measure it, go to Screwfix and get a like for like. Should be relatively simple yes? Surely the level of bodgery seen in other parts of the house can't extend to this more modern installation? Let's start with the ceiling of the en-suite. It is dropped and paneled in some weird plastic. We thought it was so they could fit the ceiling extractor ductwork in so they didn't have to hack the original ceiling. Being good girls and boys we turn off the electric and get to work.
Turns out they did not have to put a false ceiling in. Why would you when you have not fitted any f
king ducting to vent outside at all? All that lovely fking condensation has been venting into the fking floor space between this ceiling and the floor above. For years. fking incompetent s. To add insult to injury, the window hinges are broken and we cannot open the window without then having to borrow the neighbour's 25ft rickety ladder and hammer the f
king window shut from the outside.I can't deal with this today. Where is the f
king gin? Ah. Been there.
Best one from our last house was discovering that the kitchen roof had been made too short. So they had just hammered a load of long nails into the wall and hung it on those. No thought of battening, or just, you know, not being wilfully stupid.
I feel your pain. There are some absolute window lickers out there.
Best one from our last house was discovering that the kitchen roof had been made too short. So they had just hammered a load of long nails into the wall and hung it on those. No thought of battening, or just, you know, not being wilfully stupid.
I feel your pain. There are some absolute window lickers out there.
Another one that feels your pain. Bodgery is no fun. Our decorator has found that in our extension (only thirteen years old so should have been a quick sand only) none of the plasterboard has been attached properly, so it is taking days (and lots of money!) to prepare a tiny room for paint as there is so much screwing and filling to do (ooer).
Ace-T said:
It is a bit odd. I have never been in a house with an internal chimney before. I will see if I can find the plans as weirdly it took us a fair old while to figure out what room was above which without having to think quite hard about it!
your posting reminded me of this earlier comment you made, we moved into our house at the end of March, it was built in 1910 and has an internal triangle of three fireplaces and associated chimneys above, fireplaces in most rooms, but the principle came out of the arts and crafts movement and a trend towards more welcoming homes, even things like the way the doors open etc were part of this... your house looks as though it is a cross-over from Victorian style to Arts and Crafts which would have been fairly established by 1906... your door knocker is very arts and crafts...we are also uncovering a lot of bodgery in the house including about three sets of heating pipes, 4 thermostats and a light you can’t turn off! there is however a deep satisfaction in unpicking it...
you lot had it easy, our stopcock was in the middle of the dining room floor under the carpet and underlay.....
our eletric meter had been walled up behind some kitchen cabinets- you have to use 2 mirrors to read it whilst standing on a ladder
none of the windows and doors in the 1980s extension have any sort of lintel
They'd had the house re-wired 15 years ago (i should say the previous owner, a tree surgeon, rewired the house himself.,....) but left in place the 1940s vulcanised rubber wiring, which they didn't use but was still live. we plugged in the hoover the first weekend and one of the wires set alight under the floor boards.......
our eletric meter had been walled up behind some kitchen cabinets- you have to use 2 mirrors to read it whilst standing on a ladder
none of the windows and doors in the 1980s extension have any sort of lintel
They'd had the house re-wired 15 years ago (i should say the previous owner, a tree surgeon, rewired the house himself.,....) but left in place the 1940s vulcanised rubber wiring, which they didn't use but was still live. we plugged in the hoover the first weekend and one of the wires set alight under the floor boards.......
Ace-T said:
We have not done much at all since the hall (I think it broke me slightly and this year has been a bit st to say the least. So I was not terribly enthusiastic when the en-suite ceiling mounted extractor stopped working the other day. OK we think, let's measure it, go to Screwfix and get a like for like. Should be relatively simple yes? Surely the level of bodgery seen in other parts of the house can't extend to this more modern installation?
Let's start with the ceiling of the en-suite. It is dropped and paneled in some weird plastic. We thought it was so they could fit the ceiling extractor ductwork in so they didn't have to hack the original ceiling. Being good girls and boys we turn off the electric and get to work.
Turns out they did not have to put a false ceiling in. Why would you when you have not fitted any fking ducting to vent outside at all? All that lovely fking condensation has been venting into the fking floor space between this ceiling and the floor above. For years. fking incompetent s.
To add insult to injury, the window hinges are broken and we cannot open the window without then having to borrow the neighbour's 25ft rickety ladder and hammer the fking window shut from the outside.
I can't deal with this today. Where is the fking gin?
If it’s any consolation, we are still living with the first floor bathroom that is land locked, overlooks the upstairs living room and was tiled by Stevie Wonder while on a massive bender, was designed by Warwick Davis, for Warwick Davis and regularly seeps overspill children’s bath water to bugger up the ceiling in the ante room below it. and this year has been a bit st to say the least. So I was not terribly enthusiastic when the en-suite ceiling mounted extractor stopped working the other day. OK we think, let's measure it, go to Screwfix and get a like for like. Should be relatively simple yes? Surely the level of bodgery seen in other parts of the house can't extend to this more modern installation? Let's start with the ceiling of the en-suite. It is dropped and paneled in some weird plastic. We thought it was so they could fit the ceiling extractor ductwork in so they didn't have to hack the original ceiling. Being good girls and boys we turn off the electric and get to work.
Turns out they did not have to put a false ceiling in. Why would you when you have not fitted any f
king ducting to vent outside at all? All that lovely fking condensation has been venting into the fking floor space between this ceiling and the floor above. For years. fking incompetent s. To add insult to injury, the window hinges are broken and we cannot open the window without then having to borrow the neighbour's 25ft rickety ladder and hammer the f
king window shut from the outside.I can't deal with this today. Where is the f
king gin? Over the summer we had planned for all the work to move a seriously weird staircase, add in another staircase to combat the weird layout, move a few walls and fix the seriously mental bathrooms on both floors. Thus, bringing an end to Polish Stevie Wonder’s drug fuelled reign of terror.
All we achieved in the end was replacing the windows in the barn roof with proper Velux. When I say windows, obviously what I mean is blown sheets of double glazing glued onto the roof frame. And even that wasn’t the gift to myself that was intended as one of the chaps pointed out the flooring hadn’t been laid staggered but simply in rows, corner to corner.
Me too! We have five extractors in bathrooms or wc rooms. The two wc room extractors vent straight to the outside as they are on external walls. All three bathrooms vent into the loft. And the house was extended and “done” by an architect in the 1980’s. Pathetic.
Don’t get me started on the flat roof bodgery of mixing mineral felt edging with torch-on main sections.
Don’t get me started on the flat roof bodgery of mixing mineral felt edging with torch-on main sections.
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