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I love what you’re doing with this house, each room is great so far.
I know exactly what you mean about painting with that dark blue, we did our living room a dark F&B colour a few months ago after 4 years of it being a ‘perfect’ light blue/grey colour.
As soon as it went on the walls I knew we’d done the right thing.
We were originally going to go with a pink but decided on going with a blue because we love the pictures on the wall and didn’t want to get rid of them!
I know exactly what you mean about painting with that dark blue, we did our living room a dark F&B colour a few months ago after 4 years of it being a ‘perfect’ light blue/grey colour.
As soon as it went on the walls I knew we’d done the right thing.
We were originally going to go with a pink but decided on going with a blue because we love the pictures on the wall and didn’t want to get rid of them!
judas said:
cmvtec said:
I have one question, though. How do you get in that room visible through the window? I may be presuming that the fireplace is on a party/outside wall?
It's on an internal wall - there is a hallway running behind it to the bathroom and rear bedroom 
pmanson said:
Really like the light. Just what I've been looking for for our lounge
Here you go, B&Q special 
https://www.diy.com/departments/jonas-wire-copper-...
They do matching lamps but it was just a bit too matchy-matchy for me. I couldn't think of a way to make them work. Got the bedside lamps from Dunelm instead.
AlmostUseful said:
I love what you’re doing with this house, each room is great so far.
Thank you Had a bit a chuckle the other evening with Judas about the whole 'desperately seeking validation from strangers on the internet' thing the other night. 
But it is nice to hear that ones taste in decor is not completely hideous! 
AlmostUseful said:
Now that's lovely. 
cmvtec said:
judas said:
cmvtec said:
I have one question, though. How do you get in that room visible through the window? I may be presuming that the fireplace is on a party/outside wall?
It's on an internal wall - there is a hallway running behind it to the bathroom and rear bedroom 
Harry Flashman said:
Very cool. Perhaps a project for later: painting some of that wood furniture to match the rooms. I'm redoing a load of old dark wood furniture given to me by my mother, using DIY chalk paint (coloured emulsion + chalk powder, and then a wax finish). Cheap and satisfying.
On that already. Firstly, a battered old rocking chair was left in the house by the previous owner. She said it had been left here by the person who owned it before her as well (27 years ago) so I felt morally obliged to fix it and do it up. It's glued and screwed back together, sanded and undercoated now. Just been to B&Q to get some fine sandpaper to go over the undercoat before doing a second coat this weekend. Current plan is that it will be a dark blue (using the spare room skirting paint leftover) with three of the spokes on the back as the 3 different colours of the other rooms on this floor: pale blue, teal and green. We will see how that turns out. The next bits of furniture will be the dresser and wine rack in the dining room and the bedroom furniture in the master bedroom. I have got some tile grout spare and going to see how it goes on a couple of small ikea stools first.
Ace-T said:
cmvtec said:
judas said:
cmvtec said:
I have one question, though. How do you get in that room visible through the window? I may be presuming that the fireplace is on a party/outside wall?
It's on an internal wall - there is a hallway running behind it to the bathroom and rear bedroom It does look lovely, though, and the era it was built is very much "my" era of property - they seem to be the best balance of space, usability and mix of features.
Validation from internet dwellers is great, I get stacks of inspiration from people on here, moreso than any other forum, and whilst my 1930’s house would make a good thread (imma bit too lazy) I’m happy to post the odd photo as it may just help someone in a position I was once in.
Your rocking chair story is great, all we had left in our place when we moved in we’re some baking trays in the (bottle) gas oven kept in a 1950 something Kellogg cereal wrapper! We do use some of the cake tins to be fair.
Your rocking chair story is great, all we had left in our place when we moved in we’re some baking trays in the (bottle) gas oven kept in a 1950 something Kellogg cereal wrapper! We do use some of the cake tins to be fair.
Ace-T said:
On that already. Firstly, a battered old rocking chair was left in the house by the previous owner. She said it had been left here by the person who owned it before her as well (27 years ago) so I felt morally obliged to fix it and do it up. It's glued and screwed back together, sanded and undercoated now. Just been to B&Q to get some fine sandpaper to go over the undercoat before doing a second coat this weekend. Current plan is that it will be a dark blue (using the spare room skirting paint leftover) with three of the spokes on the back as the 3 different colours of the other rooms on this floor: pale blue, teal and green. We will see how that turns out.
The next bits of furniture will be the dresser and wine rack in the dining room and the bedroom furniture in the master bedroom. I have got some tile grout spare and going to see how it goes on a couple of small ikea stools first.
Nice interior design trick this! We do exactly the same, echoing colours from rooms in other rooms. It unconsciously draws themes through the house and makes it seemed more thought through. Firstly, a battered old rocking chair was left in the house by the previous owner. She said it had been left here by the person who owned it before her as well (27 years ago) so I felt morally obliged to fix it and do it up. It's glued and screwed back together, sanded and undercoated now. Just been to B&Q to get some fine sandpaper to go over the undercoat before doing a second coat this weekend. Current plan is that it will be a dark blue (using the spare room skirting paint leftover) with three of the spokes on the back as the 3 different colours of the other rooms on this floor: pale blue, teal and green. We will see how that turns out. The next bits of furniture will be the dresser and wine rack in the dining room and the bedroom furniture in the master bedroom. I have got some tile grout spare and going to see how it goes on a couple of small ikea stools first.
For example, our bedroom is pale pink, and the furniture is being painted an mid green the same as that of the walls in one of the guest rooms.
Pink and green is a winner
The next major project we need to sort is that awful front door.
I think it is about as sympathetic to the house as the PH Lounge when one uses grammar incorrectly.
Plus it isn't sealed properly around the edges so its fairly useless too.
So we have been inviting various tradespeople around to see what our options are. Firstly we looked at composite doors. The chaps that came around were all helpful but they all said the same thing: Composite doors are smaller than the door we have now and they would have to make the frame larger and to do that they would use infills. It would be relatively inexpensive to do this but somehow I think it would be too much of a compromise. Some of them couldn't retrofit the original stained glass panel either.
What about a new wooden door then? Well costs on those are not cheap, however it could be done. I don't want engineered wood though, I want solid wood. Well that just makes the costs increase exponentially.
However we have this in the shed...
It is the original front door that has been in the shed (that has half a roof!) since the double glazed monstrosity was put in about 20 years ago. Judas didn't think it could be saved after a quick look (and wasn't keen on how it looked anyway) so we dismissed it.
When James the joiner turned up to quote, we showed him it. He was genuinely surprised at how good a condition it was in, no warping and the tiniest bit of rot on one corner. At this point we were still thinking about going new but his 'new door' quotes were pretty high too.
We then took a walk around the area one evening with a couple of maps from 1901 and 1914. This was to find the houses which were built around the same time as ours to see what we could have. It was very obvious where composites had replaced originals, but there are actually an awful lot of original doors still going strong, It made us rethink our approach.
In addition to this I have the voices of a couple of very kind PHrs (you know who you are) in my ear, telling me a.) not to compromise and b.) use the original door. Just want to say thanks guys, you were right
So today we dragged it out of the shed and cleaned it up. Pics to follow.
I think it is about as sympathetic to the house as the PH Lounge when one uses grammar incorrectly.
Plus it isn't sealed properly around the edges so its fairly useless too.So we have been inviting various tradespeople around to see what our options are. Firstly we looked at composite doors. The chaps that came around were all helpful but they all said the same thing: Composite doors are smaller than the door we have now and they would have to make the frame larger and to do that they would use infills. It would be relatively inexpensive to do this but somehow I think it would be too much of a compromise. Some of them couldn't retrofit the original stained glass panel either.
What about a new wooden door then? Well costs on those are not cheap, however it could be done. I don't want engineered wood though, I want solid wood. Well that just makes the costs increase exponentially.
However we have this in the shed...
It is the original front door that has been in the shed (that has half a roof!) since the double glazed monstrosity was put in about 20 years ago. Judas didn't think it could be saved after a quick look (and wasn't keen on how it looked anyway) so we dismissed it.
When James the joiner turned up to quote, we showed him it. He was genuinely surprised at how good a condition it was in, no warping and the tiniest bit of rot on one corner. At this point we were still thinking about going new but his 'new door' quotes were pretty high too.
We then took a walk around the area one evening with a couple of maps from 1901 and 1914. This was to find the houses which were built around the same time as ours to see what we could have. It was very obvious where composites had replaced originals, but there are actually an awful lot of original doors still going strong, It made us rethink our approach.
In addition to this I have the voices of a couple of very kind PHrs (you know who you are) in my ear, telling me a.) not to compromise and b.) use the original door.
Just want to say thanks guys, you were right So today we dragged it out of the shed and cleaned it up. Pics to follow.
Edited by Ace-T on Saturday 17th August 20:00
Thank you J, now fly my pretty!
It's in pretty great nick and I am really hoping James the joiner is talented enough to be able to sort the teensy bit of rot at the bottom. The other thing that caught my eye was the door knocker. It turns out it is a knocker with knockers!
Apparently mermaid door knockers were a thing.
It's in pretty great nick and I am really hoping James the joiner is talented enough to be able to sort the teensy bit of rot at the bottom. The other thing that caught my eye was the door knocker. It turns out it is a knocker with knockers!
Apparently mermaid door knockers were a thing.
Edited by Ace-T on Saturday 17th August 20:10
Edited by Ace-T on Saturday 17th August 20:15
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