Door dreaming. Transforming hollow core doors.

 

 
All the doors in the house are boring flat plywood hollow core doors painted with a variety of  acrylic paint colours from baby blue to puce. YUM !!
We looked at replacing them with a set of older doors but finding enough interesting doors with the right measurements could have taken a lifetime. Then it came to [...]

It’s Finished !! First room renovated

  

finished room all furnished

Well the first room is finally finished. We now have a bedroom to call our own. There are a couple of jobs still to do; pelmets are needed before colder weather arrives and the door needs painting and decorating.
 
The room is light and airy with the curtains providing colour and the floor [...]

Floor of 2nd bedroom coated with Hard oil wax finish

 

Slowly the bedroom is taking shape. The clay paint has been applied and now the floor has the first coat of Volvox Hard Oil Wax finish applied and is drying.
It is applied with a scraper at the rate of 20ml per square metre.  
 

 
We used a whole 300ml to coat the floor this morning   applying volvox with [...]

Bedroom 2. The first room to be renovated !!

 
 
The first room to be renovated was the bedroom on the south east corner. We started on 26th August 2008 by removing all the plaster and lath from the inside of the exterior walls so we could insulate. Lots of dust!!
 
All the studs and interiors of weatherboard are in good condition. We used breathable builders silver [...]