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Love your bathroom floor Cloo is it tiles or vinyl?

I need to replace mine ASAP due to leak caused by same bathroom sink you have in the next size up. My partner re-used something that caused £70 plumbers fee & ruined the vinyl as it leaked. This was 2 years ago so it’s slowly moving up the list.
 
The bathroom floor was tiles moonsi til - bathroom was done near the end and we didn't have much money left for it, so went for plain walls and I liked the idea of a patterned floor and those tiles were on sale! gsv wasn't convinced by them, but everyone else loves them.

Bedlinen is from Ikea, equationgirl - by pure coincidence the same colours as the curtains from local shop. I insisted on colourful curtains as gsv wasface unwilling to have strong colours on the wall, which I though the room could take.

Hallway before sanding and finishing (same in the lounge)

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After (still have the same shitty brown stair carpet now, but hopefully that's going in next 6 months, plus losing the anaglypta paper):

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That's amazing Boudicca - is that for you/your family's use or for letting out?

Mumbles274 - is that a concrete/concrete effect worktop? It's really nice.

Back room before:

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Back wall you see in the picture above knocked out - there was a kitchen and outdoor-opening loo behind it. The wall with a door way behind the knock-through also came out!

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The whole knock through and kitchen going into place (into what was a dining room) NB, the kitchen's cream, the blue is just the plastic protection film on it:

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Looking into the lounge and what was the old kitchen from the new kitchen:

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IMG_20180707_122210.jpg It actually turned out better than we expected. A lot of people, when we described our plans, said we should surely get in an architect to plan it, but we didn't have the budget for that. We didn't really know what the wall opened out to the kitchen would look like or if it would work well, but it looked awesome in the end. I've always been a little unconvinced by open plan kitchens because you can see all the mess etc, but because it's up some steps it gives it a bit more separation from the rest of the living space so it's not all there in your face. Above is view up to the kitchen right now
 
We pick up the keys to chez BalFrog tomorrow, and have a week of renovating to play with before we move all our stuff out our current flat :)

It's a 1950s weatherboard three bedroom, with a kitchen that looks original. We're going to rip out the kitchen, prise up the cork tiles in there that are covering native hardwood floorboards and get them sanded and oiled, ready for the kitchen install next Monday. Need to get carpets in the bedrooms cleaned, paint all the rooms and move a doorway from the kitchen into the dining area that's in a really weird place. It also has no heating so we have a heatpump company coming in on Friday to give us a quote and organise installation.

There's a load more stuff that needs doing but it'll happen over time as needed.
 
All my time's been taken up by stripping wallpaper from the lounge. The plaster beneath - apparently original - has cracks and makes varying degrees of hollow sounds when knocked, but has stayed universally attached to the wall, so he's going to skim it. The ceiling will be overboarded.

Today's job is to get a load of silicon caulk off a cast iron fire backplate, and then paint to cover up scratches. It was oversized for the previous fireplace and had marble strips stuck to it. Our new mantelpiece/surround gives us little room to play with, about 3cm hidden width in total, so it's got to be sorted and made a universal colour.

Cast iron means no water involved, but I think white spirit should do it, then some masking and black barbecue or grate paint.
 
Our plaster has always looked surprisingly OK once paper has come off, but our decorator has said a lot of it is actually too dry and needs quite a lot of prep. We're preparing, as I mentioned, to strip and replace the hall paper and get that brown woodwork white - I suspect that's going to be about a month of stripping and prep and another few weeks to actually repaint/paper.
 
Got all the caulk off, cleaned it, sanded it a bit (got this a bit wrong tbh) to key the paint and then painted it. Used a whole tin of stove paint and if we're being precious it probably needs another coat. May or may not bother depending on the week.

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We have a fireplace where original tiles have been replaced with plain beige 50s ones. I want to replace them with these ones (where the pattern on each comes out randomly), made by Granby Workshop. My sis-in-law's architecture collective started this workshop where locals in Liverpool are taught skills to make and sell tiles, plates and other really nice stuff.

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Nice. We've made friends with a tile production place, called funnily enough Tile Productions, in Clitheroe. They're doing our bathroom and no doubt eventually kitchen, but they also make all kinds of fun stuff including jewellery.

We've got original fireplaces in each room and the tiles are either naff replacements or very sad looking, so we need to think about that one.
 
mauvais said:
Got all the caulk off, cleaned it, sanded it a bit (got this a bit wrong tbh) to key the paint and then painted it. Used a whole tin of stove paint and if we're being precious it probably needs another coat. May or may not bother depending on the week.

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In an episode of what I shall call cross-thread décoratif I bring to your attention that you seem to have the same fireplace surround as Glitter .

post a picture of your front room
 
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