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Archive for May, 2009
Moving and Improving
May 27, 2009
Exciting News
Life in general,Moving and Improving
May 21, 2009
The things I have learned since moving to Somerset
The view on Christmas Day. One of the reasons we chose this house.
Today marks the one year anniversary of when, by the light of my mobile phone, we found the keys under a flowerpot for our new house. Wow! I cannot believe it’s been a year already; but on the other hand, I do feel like a visitor when I go back to Tonbridge; and I do feel I belong here now. I have no regrets about our relocation at all. Here’s a list of a few things I’ve discovered.
Moving and Improving
May 20, 2009
Old wooden floors
Finding the floor
I spent ages trawling the internet for advice for old wooden floors, and eventually found some. Hopefully this will help if you’re looking as well. Most advice I found related to Victorian floorboards and polishing them so they’re smooth and shiny. I didn’t want that at all for my seventeenth century elm boards, so this it what I did.
Moving and Improving
May 19, 2009
Painting furniture
Moving and Improving
May 18, 2009
Doing up the dressing room.
My dressing room
I know, it does sound a bit Lah de Dah, but I only have a dressing room because the bedroom is too small for wardrobes. Oh all right, and I do have a lot of clothes – but that’s mainly because I never get rid of any, not that I just buy a lot! Ok, it’s my piece of luxury.
Moving and Improving
May 17, 2009
Exposing a stone wall.
The attractive layers of woodchip and 70s wallpaper.
Yes, yes, I know it’s not authentic; I know people in the olden days covered the walls in plaster; but I don’t care – I wanted to do the fashionable thing and expose the stone on the fireplace wall!
Moving and Improving
May 13, 2009
Renovating Accidents
Can you tell which finger I hit with a hammer?
I’m sure there are many more to come, but this is what I have suffered so far.
