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Have some photos. Don’t ask why there’s a teapot on the roof.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Today I’ve decided to sort out the kitchen table. It’s made from floorboards so is supposed to be a bit scruffy looking but not 7 years of ingrained dirt, paint, food and god knows what else scruffy. Plus the changes in temperature mean it’s cracked.
Am going to sand it right back then decide whether I stain it or not, and what colour to fill in the big cracks
Am going to sand it right back then decide whether I stain it or not, and what colour to fill in the big cracks
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Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
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Chilli.s
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If it's off the wall you can take it to a welding/car repair place and get them to sand blast it.
mauvais
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I did wonder about this. The trouble is it weighs a ton and is potentially fragile so I think it's best just waddled around and dealt with in-situ.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Some people will come round and blast it in-situ too. I've done a few of these by hand with nitromors and they took a fuckin age!
Manter
Lunch Mob
Most of the varnish off. Sealing the knots and cracks with white resin, and then my current thinking is I’ll keep the top really pale- natural bison wax (similar finish to danish oil). Maybe make the legs a bit darker, at the moment they are lime white... but we’ll see.
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Manter
Lunch Mob
I’m firmly in camp go for it.I've just been to view a house and I love it but it needs so much work doing to it.
We would never have the money to just do it all in one go, it would take years!
My head is saying not to touch it...but it could be amazing.
it’s so satisfying....
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Could you live in it without doing anything? It really is all about area and will probably go up in value whatever.I've just been to view a house and I love it but it needs so much work doing to it.
We would never have the money to just do it all in one go, it would take years!
My head is saying not to touch it...but it could be amazing.
Looby
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We’ve sat in the dining room a bit more than usual this weekend and decided to finally sort it out and decorate it. The floor is really dodgy but we probably won’t touch that, we have some really ugly pipework to box in and this monstrosity below.
It used to be a table that attached to the wall. We took the table off but can’t really remove what’s left as I suspect half the chimney breast will come with it. There’s possibly also asbestos behind that MDF so we don’t really want to touch it.
How the fuck am I going to cover that up in a way that doesn’t look horrendous? I really don’t want one of Mr Looby’s DIY jobs, he still hasn’t reassembled the table he dismantled and hacked apart several years ago.
Any ideas? I was thinking a radiator cover type thing but it goes to the floor and round the sides too.
It used to be a table that attached to the wall. We took the table off but can’t really remove what’s left as I suspect half the chimney breast will come with it. There’s possibly also asbestos behind that MDF so we don’t really want to touch it.
How the fuck am I going to cover that up in a way that doesn’t look horrendous? I really don’t want one of Mr Looby’s DIY jobs, he still hasn’t reassembled the table he dismantled and hacked apart several years ago.
Any ideas? I was thinking a radiator cover type thing but it goes to the floor and round the sides too.
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RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
I would just paint it to match the cupboard I think. Let it blend in. Stick a chair in front. Gone!
Manter
Lunch Mob
Agree with Ruby- if everything is the same colour it won’t be seen much. If you have space, you could put a narrow shelf on the top and a big picture on the wall and maybe a couple of slim vases to make it more of a ‘fireplace’ feature- but only if you have space to move the table out otherwise anyone sat on that side will knock it
Looby
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Just painting it over was the original plan but it looks so shit. Even if we just covered the MDF with a nicer bit of wood I guess it would look better.
Don’t get me started on the bloody notice board above that also won’t come off without bringing down a different part of the chimney.
Don’t get me started on the bloody notice board above that also won’t come off without bringing down a different part of the chimney.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
I'd thoroughly recommend it. Got about 15 pallets for a tenner from someone else who'd done similar and over-bought. Memory foam single mattress toppers x 2 (20 quid off FB marketplace, including 2 decent spring mattresses now being used by my daughters), and about 35 quid on waterproof fabric.
Seats 6 comfortably.
Children included for scale, not considered in costings.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Ta. I didn't want it to just look like a pile of pallets, and it had to be comfy; hence the backs are braced and angled rather than more pallets stood on end. Thinking of doing some back cushions for it too.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
That's a thing of beauty and yes you should, if not insanely expensive.
Did you build the whole thing yourself or was it self-assembly?
Idaho
blah blah blah
Pretty much built it myself with some initial help from a mate. He got me started with the structure and some of the mechanisms.
In truth building stuff is insanely expensive. Mass production is incredible at bringing down cost. Wood, fixings, glue and treatment are very expensive. Paying people to help is expensive. But I'm pleased with the result.
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
Looks like impressive work. How did you manage to cut the semicircular notch out of the mirror?
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Knitting and sewing are just the same. Much pricier than just going to the shop and buying a jumper or a jacket. But... what you make is not the equivalent of what you would have bought. It's the equivalent of something you couldn't have afforded.
Idaho
blah blah blah
I ordered the mirrors from a local firm. They cut out the semi circle.
