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CharlesdeGaulle

26,091 posts

179 months

Saturday 19th October 2019
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Ace-T said:
...waiting for a cover to hide the hideous radiator
That radiator is pretty awful, but could you not simply replace it with something more in keeping and characterful?

Ace-T

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7,688 posts

254 months

Saturday 19th October 2019
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CharlesdeGaulle said:
That radiator is pretty awful, but could you not simply replace it with something more in keeping and characterful?
We will eventually. At the moment though that radiator is directly connected to the one on the other side of the wall in the living room (another bodge rolleyes) that we will be moving to under the window. That's a fairly big job so, in the meantime, we're going to hide it hehe

dhutch

14,198 posts

196 months

Saturday 19th October 2019
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Ace-T said:
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 ....





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...' hehe 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.

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. bounce
Looking good, much brighter than the pine, good call in my book. The floor is bloody lovely, very jealous of that!

How come the paint changes colour, not sure I get why that would be short of not mixing it well enough?
Can't help on the curtains other than I expect they will calm down with use. Good news in the door.

I've also got super lucky with a burst flexi in th last house. Got home lateish one Sunday to the sound of spraying water and the lights not coming on. Knowing the house has been empty all weekend I feared the worst, but it must have just gone, got about a bucket of water off the middle of the apparently slightly convex kitchen floor, now damage at all. I had spotted they looked crap, bought new, but not got around to it! Always the way.


Daniel

judas

5,963 posts

258 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Just had the pics of the finished stained glass panels through and they're looking really good biggrin







Joiner is coming in a few weeks to fit the new frame and restored door bounce

CharlesdeGaulle

26,091 posts

179 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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The glass looks great. Nice work.

Harry Flashman

19,283 posts

241 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Lovely job! His panels are one of my favourite things about our house- transformed the look of the place!

trixical

1,054 posts

174 months

Friday 1st November 2019
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Ace-T said:
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. grumpy
They might hang a bit better & less sticky out if they spend some time being 'dressed', & potentially a few more rings per curtain panel would also reduce the forwardness. To dress them, fold them how you want them to sit which should be so they come forwards between the 1st & 2nd ring, back in the next gap & repeat for the whole width, tie at several intervals along their length with a strip of soft cloth or ribbon (toilet roll might work) & leave them tied like that for a week to train them into those folds. If they don't play ball try steaming them also.

The door glass is beautiful!

Ace-T

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7,688 posts

254 months

Saturday 2nd November 2019
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dhutch said:
Looking good, much brighter than the pine, good call in my book. The floor is bloody lovely, very jealous of that!

How come the paint changes colour, not sure I get why that would be short of not mixing it well enough?
Can't help on the curtains other than I expect they will calm down with use. Good news in the door.

I've also got super lucky with a burst flexi in th last house. Got home lateish one Sunday to the sound of spraying water and the lights not coming on. Knowing the house has been empty all weekend I feared the worst, but it must have just gone, got about a bucket of water off the middle of the apparently slightly convex kitchen floor, now damage at all. I had spotted they looked crap, bought new, but not got around to it! Always the way.


Daniel
Thanks Daniel, the floor was one of the things that sold the house to us, though it does need repair and cleaning but we will do that when everything else is sorted.

The paint colour changes depending on the light: the time of day and aspect gives the paint subtly different hues, it's really noticable when you move from downstairs up, the colour gets greener, which I really like.

Your burst sounds so similar! Horrible to encounter but you thank your lucky stars after! We had another small central heating one last weekend. Another bodge where they had joined 2 bits if central heating pipe with a broken and superglued back together T piece. yikes Caught and repaired but it did mean draining down the whole system, which was fun as they haven't put the drain point at the lowest point of course. rolleyes

Thanks for the top curtain tips Trixical, will try those. thumbup

Appreciate the kind words re the glass folks, we were a bit nervous about doing this. They are turning up today so we will see!

BTW Harry, we still need to sort that stuff if you still want it. Apologies for the delay, getting boxes big enough has been slightly tricky.

Harry Flashman

19,283 posts

241 months

Saturday 2nd November 2019
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No problem! In your own time - I know how this stuff takes over. The old Merc and Saab are in dry storage for the winter anyway, so no hurry.

Ace-T

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7,688 posts

254 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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Today we have had the new but old door fitted. After finding the original 1906 door in the shed and our brilliant joiner saying it was good, we designed and ordered the glass (thanks for the recommendation Harry smile) and let James do his thing.
Upvc with 90s bathroom glass



Big hole after old door removed!


New frame going in



Door fits


Now for the glass








All done



The grey is primer. Need to decide on a colour.

From inside


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dbdb

4,311 posts

172 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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You're doing a lovely job on this house.

dhutch

14,198 posts

196 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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Ace-T said:
All done



The grey is primer.
Absolutely just the job!

Good work.

GIYess

1,311 posts

100 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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What a door! Love the grey with the glass.

Ace-T

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7,688 posts

254 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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Thank you all for the kind comments guys. thumbup We are incredibly chuffed with it, validation from strangers on the internet is the cherry on the cake. wink

We are going for a gloss black/blue colour called Railings by Farrow and Ball. Though the primer colour does look good, we think a stronger darker colour will make the glass jewel like. Sort of like diamonds on black velvet iyswim. hehe

21st Century Man

40,660 posts

247 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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Ace-T said:
Farrow and Ball.
......Dahling!

rofl

Ace-T

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7,688 posts

254 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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21st Century Man said:
......Dahling!

rofl
But what you don't see is that I am pouring cheap Lambrini into a Champagne bottle rofl

(Getting colour matched with Johnstones paints cos it's better and cheaper!)

seiben

2,343 posts

133 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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That door cloud9

Harry Flashman

19,283 posts

241 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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Ace-T said:
21st Century Man said:
......Dahling!

rofl
But what you don't see is that I am pouring cheap Lambrini into a Champagne bottle rofl

(Getting colour matched with Johnstones paints cos it's better and cheaper!)
It's what I did - works just fine.

Looking great...more pics please!

Harry Flashman

19,283 posts

241 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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Look at F&B Green Smoke for the door, to pick out the green in the glass, and also work well with the red brick.

This is it in our living room.

Hamptons2 by baconrashers, on Flickr

judas

5,963 posts

258 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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Harry Flashman said:
Look at F&B Green Smoke for the door, to pick out the green in the glass, and also work well with the red brick.

This is it in our living room.

Hamptons2 by baconrashers, on Flickr
Our second-but-almost-first-choice (it was decided on the toss of a coin!) was Studio Green. I suspect there will be some changes of mind over the weekend once get to have a proper look at the door in daylight.