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Moving and Improving

March 10, 2010

Fiddes Wax on; fiddes wax off

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wax on; wax off

wax on; wax off

The furniture wax I’ve been using. £7 for a 500ml tin. It’s a natural wonder!

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Moving and Improving

March 7, 2010

Buying a Rayburn

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The old boiler and the place where the Rayburn will be.

The old boiler and the place where the Rayburn will be.

It’s ordered! We’re getting it! I can’t believe it!!

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Moving and Improving

March 2, 2010

The kitchen work surface

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The humble beginnings

The humble beginnings

I have finally replaced the picnic table!! Well, it had to be done before Christmas, but I am glad that table (bought at an expensive camping shop in the New Forest last year) has really had its money’s worth now!

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Moving and Improving

March 1, 2010

The staircase

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Ignore the awful walls!

Ignore the awful walls!

Once a homage to 1970s style; now an attractive piece of carpentry to keep us warm!

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Moving and Improving

February 28, 2010

Doing up the den in the cellar and review of Crown Shimmer & shine paint.

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P1030445We struggled with naming this room – it used to be the cinema room because that’s where we have the projector and screen set up, but that sounded far too grand for a room about 9′ by 7′! So now it’s the den. Again, my daughter wanted to watch films in there with her friends, so her birthday party was the deadline to get it done.

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Moving and Improving

November 10, 2009

Knocking down another wall

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Part way through the job.

Part way through the job.

Two days after the plane landed in England, I’m to be found ignoring the suitcases in the middle of the living room floor (the weather was too wet to dry the washing anyway), sledge hammer in hand and bashing down a couple of walls at the top of the cellar stairs. I do have a good reason though…

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Moving and Improving

November 7, 2009

Grouting the floor

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P1030158After spending one afternoon making my first attempts at grouting the floor; leaving the gaps to gradually fill with dirt seemed like a very sensible option.

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Moving and Improving

November 6, 2009

Sealing the floor

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After reading all about the different types of sealant on the internet and the best advice for terracotta tiles, I decided to go for the only  kind they sell in the local Focus. This is Q EP Tile Sealer.

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Moving and Improving

November 4, 2009

More floor tiling

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An update on the floor.

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Moving and Improving

September 5, 2009

Kitchen Update

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Sorry I haven’t updated for so long.  Summer holidays. Kids. You understand. Anyway, on checking my drafts, I found this post that I must have written just before the festival back in June. I know it’’s out of date now, but I’ll put it up anyway so other renovators can empathise and would-be renovators can be warned!

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