Show us yer house and house-related meddlings

[equationgirl]

Nice fireplace!

The tiles are fab, the surround is a bit much for me, too much carving. But I don't hate it and I'm not changing it.

 

[kabbes]

The stress of trying to arrange the trades around each other with missed deadlines that means X can’t start on time, which means I miss my slot on X’s calendar with knock-on effects has honestly just about broken me.

I naively thought we’d be back home this week. It is too laugh. We’re still a month off. Christmas is fucking us over too — the back door arrives in Thursday just in time for everyone to fuck off for 10 days leaving us with a hole where there should be insulation.

 

[a_chap]

First World Problems thread ========>

 

[kabbes]

Lots of tiling

 

[equationgirl]

I think I've chosen a paint colour for the living room, so a friend is taking me to B&Q tomorrow to get everything I need. Normally I would order everything online but the website said a lot wasn't available for home delivery.

Have also ordered new bookcases and I'm waiting for the sales to see what sofas are out there. Will need a rug too, I think.

I will post before and after photographs as work progresses over the next couple of weeks.

 

[equationgirl]

Paint bought, slightly different shade from the one I initially chose, as B&Q are phasing out their own brand range. Went with a valspar colour in the end.

 

[kabbes]

Kitchen still looking like an unusual mix of textures at this stage but at least it’s looking less of a mess with the flooring partially laid. The grouting should help the floor too once it gets put down.

 

[equationgirl]

Nice floor tiles kabbes

 

[mauvais]

Aye - what is it, materials wise? We want similar for our kitchen in approximately 100 years time.

No work on my house for some time now but I have been battling marble maintenance. Our black marble bathroom countertop gets so easily stained by anything with soap in - it permeates the surface and gets embedded, big white marks. After all sorts of attempted remedies I found that HG Colour Intensifier makes the vast majority of it go away.

 

[kabbes]

Aye - what is it, materials wise? We want similar for our kitchen in approximately 100 years time.

No work on my house for some time now but I have been battling marble maintenance. Our black marble bathroom countertop gets so easily stained by anything with soap in - it permeates the surface and gets embedded, big white marks. After all sorts of attempted remedies I found that HG Colour Intensifier makes the vast majority of it go away.

It's black slate, unrivened and with a rough surface. We searched high and low for it -- this was the end of a line, so I can't give you further details.

First of all, we searched for reclaimed stuff but the only stuff we liked was £300 per square metre...

 

[equationgirl]

It's black slate, unrivened and with a rough surface. We searched high and low for it -- this was the end of a line, so I can't give you further details.

First of all, we searched for reclaimed stuff but the only stuff we liked was £300 per square metre...

HOW MUCH???!!!

 

[teuchter]

Kitchen still looking like an unusual mix of textures at this stage but at least it’s looking less of a mess with the flooring partially laid. The grouting should help the floor too once it gets put down.

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I'd have hoped you might have gone for a tiling layout with deep mathematical significance Roger Penrose style. Maybe you have and I don't know it, of course. Personally I would not be happy with the bits where 4 rather than 2 edges meet at a point.

 

[kabbes]

HOW MUCH???!!!

I know, right? And that wasn't even the most expensive we came across.

I'd have hoped you might have gone for a tiling layout with deep mathematical significance Roger Penrose style. Maybe you have and I don't know it, of course. Personally I would not be happy with the bits where 4 rather than 2 edges meet at a point.

Don't, the kabbess has already rather had a breakdown about that this morning. I do believe it will look good once it's all in place, though. In particular, it works better in the flesh than in the photo, which suffers from a considerable foreshortening effect, to be honest.

 

[teuchter]

Don't, the kabbess has already rather had a breakdown about that this morning.

I think I can see how it could be fixed. If they aren't stuck down. Which they already are, probably. I'll say no more.

 

[RubyToogood]

I know, right? And that wasn't even the most expensive we came across.


Don't, the kabbess has already rather had a breakdown about that this morning. I do believe it will look good once it's all in place, though. In particular, it works better in the flesh than in the photo, which suffers from a considerable foreshortening effect, to be honest.

You will not look at it twice once it's finished and the room has all your stuff in it.

 

[Wookey]

Did I show you my dining room cum office yet? I'm still liking my radial paintwork.....!

 

[Wookey]

The sunglasses were black and pink zebra stripes, nicked from a theme bar in Morecambe in the 90s (mad time to be alive, what can I say) and I've decoupaged them to fuck with pages from my old Judge Dredd comics.

 

[Wookey]

 

[kabbes]

I know, right? And that wasn't even the most expensive we came across.


Don't, the kabbess has already rather had a breakdown about that this morning. I do believe it will look good once it's all in place, though. In particular, it works better in the flesh than in the photo, which suffers from a considerable foreshortening effect, to be honest.

For the record, this is the pattern


If you look top-left, you can see where four points come together. We hadn't actually spotted that when starting out. Saying that, it's a good pattern.

 

[teuchter]

For the record, this is the pattern

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If you look top-left, you can see where four points come together. We hadn't actually spotted that when starting out. Saying that, it's a good pattern.

If you swap the top-left B with the A to its right then it's sorted.

 

[equationgirl]

For the record, this is the pattern

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If you look top-left, you can see where four points come together. We hadn't actually spotted that when starting out. Saying that, it's a good pattern.

It's a fab pattern, and looks great. It will be a lovely room when finished.

 

[a_chap]

Did I show you my dining room cum office yet?

You have a "cum office"...?

 

[equationgirl]

Room prepped and cleaned, ready for painting to begin. Have decided not to paint the ceiling or cornice because I'm not tall enough to reach. Light fitting will have to stay for now.

 

[clicker]

Loving the coving

 

[RubyToogood]

View attachment 156436 View attachment 156437 View attachment 156438 View attachment 156439 Room prepped and cleaned, ready for painting to begin. Have decided not to paint the ceiling or cornice because I'm not tall enough to reach. Light fitting will have to stay for now.

It's worth doing the ceiling now if there's any way you can, now you've got the room cleared. It's an opportunity that may be hard to replicate later on when it's really grubby. Doing the ceiling is always a performance - the walls you can do in stages by just pulling the furniture away from them but to do the ceiling needs a lot of clear space.

 

[equationgirl]

Loving the coving

Thanks, luckily its intact. There's two different types of picture rail though.

 

[equationgirl]

It's worth doing the ceiling now if there's any way you can, now you've got the room cleared. It's an opportunity that may be hard to replicate later on when it's really grubby. Doing the ceiling is always a performance - the walls you can do in stages by just pulling the furniture away from them but to do the ceiling needs a lot of clear space.

I will see, I bought a longer extension handle for the paint roller, but need to see if I can do it safely, and without spattering paint everywhere.

 

[Calamity1971]

I will see, I bought a longer extension handle for the paint roller, but need to see if I can do it safely, and without spattering paint everywhere.

These get decent reviews. Hope I'm not teaching you to suck eggs.

 

[equationgirl]

Thanks Calamity1971 will investigate. Will be moot if I can't reach the ceiling.

Think I will experiment with a patch of ceiling tomorrow, see how I get on.

 

[kabbes]

That’s an elegant room, equationgirl and I also love the coving!