The ridiculous Edwardian...
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Henryhall52 said:
Ace-T said:
Did Judas happen to knock up a photoshop using the original door?This is going to be one happy house if this thread is anything to go by. Love it.
Thanks for the kind words. It's been an interesting experience over the past couple of years trying to make the house 'ours'.
Apologies to Harry for stealing his stained glass
Ace-T said:
Original door:
So Judas knocked up this in photoshop...
this is something like how we want it to look.
So Judas knocked up this in photoshop...
this is something like how we want it to look.
Good work! In time we will be on a hunt for a door to renovate, but if you have the original, get it on there! Will out last us all.
We have a 1960-170's monster of a porch outside ours (larger house split into two) which my other half flattering describes as looking like a porta cabin thats been cut in half (cut side facing out) but so far we have been quoted £8k for a new roof on it, which doesnt resolve the stud walls an door.
I feel it will be a mini project in its own right.
Daniel
Thanks for all the replies folks, the front door is the start to the biggest bit of updating we have done on the house so far. Will start to converse with joiner in earnest next week. In the meantime we are doing what most idiots do on a sunny bank holiday, stay indoors and paint! 
Three floors of cleaning up orange pine ready to paint, ripping up carpet on the stairs and landing, painting fairly high ceilings and what seems like acres of wall. Made a start on covering up said orange pine today.
Before
After
Some have questioned the covering up of the orange pine, now just with one coat of primer the space looks bigger and brighter so we are happy with the choice. We will also be painting the stair treads and risers but possibly not the spindles. We shall see.
This will turn into a bit of a live blow by low account, so may get a tad tedious.
Three floors of cleaning up orange pine ready to paint, ripping up carpet on the stairs and landing, painting fairly high ceilings and what seems like acres of wall. Made a start on covering up said orange pine today.
Before
After
Some have questioned the covering up of the orange pine, now just with one coat of primer the space looks bigger and brighter so we are happy with the choice. We will also be painting the stair treads and risers but possibly not the spindles. We shall see.
This will turn into a bit of a live blow by low account, so may get a tad tedious.
It might look lots brighter, but it's just not cricket. Should be stripping it, then a few coats of a nice dark rosewoody stain. Loud slow tic-toc from the old Grandfather, chunky chime on the quarter, and MORE ASPIDISTRA'S!
You'll be buying stuff from IKEA next and putting anime posters on the walls.
You'll be buying stuff from IKEA next and putting anime posters on the walls.
Ace-T said:
Some have questioned the covering up of the orange pine, now just with one coat of primer the space looks bigger and brighter so we are happy with the choice. We will also be painting the stair treads and risers but possibly not the spindles. We shall see.
Its super hard isn't it. On one level you are covering original Edwardian features which is heathen and paint is harder to remove than hardboard used in to 1960-70, but on the other hand you have to live in and with the house and enjoy it and orange pine is not my taste either.One of our rooms had original edwardian 2x4" pine framework on the ceiling, 2ft pitch, painted a dark brown. We did a lot of soul searching, considered trying it white, and then decided to take it down and skim the ceiling flat. Plaster mouldings guy is due tomorrow to complete the job with a well selected period reproduction cornice. Photos will come when I eventually get them off my phone and put a bit of a thread together.
Daniel
Just when you think you're getting somewhere life comes along and gives you a swift, hard kick in the nuts.
Work has come to a sudden, crashing halt after a flexipipe burst and flooded the en-suite and bedroom. We were going to start painting the ceilings today but that's not going to happen. Reckon we need to leave it at least a week to make sure everything's dried out and nothing's about to drop on our heads.
However, things aren't quite as bad as they could be: we were in the house at the time so caught it quite quickly - though this did entail the usual pantomime of running round in dressing gowns trying the find a small enough screwdriver to get to the cut-off valve. We also have a plumber coming out today anyhow to replace a couple of taps. Looks like he has another job while he's here...
No doubt it will transpire that the cause of the failure will be yet another example of the bodgery of the previous owners
Work has come to a sudden, crashing halt after a flexipipe burst and flooded the en-suite and bedroom. We were going to start painting the ceilings today but that's not going to happen. Reckon we need to leave it at least a week to make sure everything's dried out and nothing's about to drop on our heads.
However, things aren't quite as bad as they could be: we were in the house at the time so caught it quite quickly - though this did entail the usual pantomime of running round in dressing gowns trying the find a small enough screwdriver to get to the cut-off valve. We also have a plumber coming out today anyhow to replace a couple of taps. Looks like he has another job while he's here...
No doubt it will transpire that the cause of the failure will be yet another example of the bodgery of the previous owners
judas said:
Just when you think you're getting somewhere life comes along and gives you a swift, hard kick in the nuts.
As a kick in the nuts go, it is painful but quite a lucky escape I think. 1. We were off work when it went, 8 hours of mains pressure into the house does not bear thinking about.
2. We decided to take breakfast upstairs instead of enjoying a leisurely breakfast in the sunny dining room
3. We have not started decorating the ceilings or walls in the hall where it came through yet
4. A couple of drips got into the living room but instead of going down the wall onto a painting we have, it dripped past it!
5. We arranged for the plumber to come today anyway.
I really think we got off lightly
says the flexi pipe was probably bent when it was being put in causing a weakness that eventually popped. Knowing the sheer bodgery in this house it probably was not a new one either. 
Best have a thorough check through the lot, and/or replace them all anyway, it's an easy enough DIY (access excepted) and B&Q is only around the corner. Don't forget the one(s) on the washing machine if you didn't fit a new one when you moved it in.
You're not doing well with water are you, didn't the cellar flood last year?
You're not doing well with water are you, didn't the cellar flood last year?
A quick update to the hall situation. We were utterly lucky as the water was mostly held in the en suite and it only overflowed a little bit into the bedroom and discoloured a little bit of the living room ceiling (which needs decorating anyway. A tiny bit got through to the all ceiling but that is now dried and covered so all good.
The hall took much longer than I had anticipated so we halved the expectations and decided to do the downstairs only plus the wall up to the first floor during that time. I am now doing bits and pieces of the first floor at the weekends mostly. Apologies for all the sideways photos.
We still need carpet on the stairs and are waiting for a cover to hide the hideous radiator but it is so much nicer a space now. brighter, more relaxing and just 'ahhhhh...' rather than 'ewwwww...' It's deliberately neutral yet warm as we want the floor to be the star of the show. We chose a Farrow and Ball colour called Old White with a complimentary white called Slipper Satin. The Old White changes colour as you go through different parts of the hall and through different light: a mushroomy stone downstairs through to a pale sage upstairs. Odd but good.
Although if anyone has a trick for making quite thick curtains hang properly, I would be grateful for the advice. They currently stick out and look a bit odd.
The front door is at the joiners getting fixed now. We have chosen and ordered the new stained glass for the door and fanlight and it is in progress too.
The hall took much longer than I had anticipated so we halved the expectations and decided to do the downstairs only plus the wall up to the first floor during that time. I am now doing bits and pieces of the first floor at the weekends mostly. Apologies for all the sideways photos.
We still need carpet on the stairs and are waiting for a cover to hide the hideous radiator but it is so much nicer a space now. brighter, more relaxing and just 'ahhhhh...' rather than 'ewwwww...'
It's deliberately neutral yet warm as we want the floor to be the star of the show. We chose a Farrow and Ball colour called Old White with a complimentary white called Slipper Satin. The Old White changes colour as you go through different parts of the hall and through different light: a mushroomy stone downstairs through to a pale sage upstairs. Odd but good.Although if anyone has a trick for making quite thick curtains hang properly, I would be grateful for the advice. They currently stick out and look a bit odd.
The front door is at the joiners getting fixed now. We have chosen and ordered the new stained glass for the door and fanlight and it is in progress too.
Edited by Ace-T on Saturday 19th October 15:48
Further to Ace-T's post, here's the stained glass design for the door we're going with:
We're using the same chap Harry Flashman used for his stained glass and looking forward to seeing the finished results. The design of the glass is based on the glass design in the front door of author HP Lovecraft's childhood home in Providence, Rhode Island
We're using the same chap Harry Flashman used for his stained glass and looking forward to seeing the finished results. The design of the glass is based on the glass design in the front door of author HP Lovecraft's childhood home in Providence, Rhode Island
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