Show us yer house and house-related meddlings

[May Kasahara]

That is so not my emotional experience of DIY. Especially today with a stinking hangover

Nor my husband's, I'll wager - at least half my children's extensive swearing lexicon comes from watching him do DIY (the other half is from riding around in the car with me ).

 

[teuchter]

I don't swear much at all in everyday life but when doing DIY and something is not going well, all hell breaks loose. There are people who know me who would be quite shocked if they witnessed it.

 

[teuchter]

Advice please: can I split this bedroom into two bedrooms? How easy is it to do and what do I need to think about?

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This can't be answered properly without a floorplan to scale or with dimensions on it.

 

[rubbershoes]

Old kitchen window



New kitchen window

 

[miss direct]

What a lovely view!

 

[rubbershoes]

What a lovely view!

Particularly nice when there are horses in the field

 

[Epona]

Old kitchen window

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New kitchen window

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Gorgeous! Never understood the whole "lead-looking strips to make it look like this window is Tudor" bullshit. My previous flat was built in the mid 60s in a very mid 60s looking block in Hackney and some fucker decided doing that was a good idea on every window (before I bought it, it was still a nice flat but the lead strips looked ridiculous. And some of them weren't even straight which made my hair stand on end.)

Apols if your old window was actually old and they were tiny little bits of glass as large as they could make them and still be fairly flat back in that era and held together with lead, in which case why would you wreck it like that?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Never understood the whole "lead-looking strips to make it look like this window is Tudor" bullshit

one of mum-tat's neighbours some years back did the whole mock tudor thing to one half of a pair of 1930s semis

 

[rubbershoes]

Gorgeous! Never understood the whole "lead-looking strips to make it look like this window is Tudor" bullshit. My previous flat was built in the mid 60s in a very mid 60s looking block in Hackney and some fucker decided doing that was a good idea on every window (before I bought it, it was still a nice flat but the lead strips looked ridiculous. And some of them weren't even straight which made my hair stand on end.)

Apols if your old window was actually old and they were tiny little bits of glass as large as they could make them and still be fairly flat back in that era and held together with lead, in which case why would you wreck it like that?

The house is about 300 years old but none of the windows are that ancient.

The previous owners put some period touches on the house and so may have put in that window.

All the other windows are leaded which fits with the character of the house, but are modern double glazed ones.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Furniture arrives from london this morning and we have to be fully moved by Tuesday. House is far from ready but we moving in. Let’s hope the plumber shows up on Tuesday to finish the final bits off! Was so tired last night forgot to take photos

 

[shakespearegirl]

We are in!

 

[Saul Goodman]

I've been having a fight with myself over whether to finish the table top with bees wax or lacquer, but I'd already bought the lacquer so I set about it this morning.

This is the 9th and hopefully final coat.





It's quite shiny

 

[Aladdin]

I've been having a fight with myself over whether to finish the table top with bees wax or lacquer, but I'd already bought the lacquer so I set about it this morning.

This is the 9th and hopefully final coat.

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It's quite shiny

That is really lovely

 

[moose]

I've been having a fight with myself over whether to finish the table top with bees wax or lacquer, but I'd already bought the lacquer so I set about it this morning.

This is the 9th and hopefully final coat.

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It's quite shiny

Magnificent! I want to see the scenes when the first person puts a glass on it without a coaster.

 

[Aladdin]

Magnificent! I want to see that scenes when the first person puts a glass on it without a coaster.

It'll be like a skating rink for the cats

 

[Epona]

It'll be like a skating rink for the cats

I only have 2 and I fear after a week that beautiful table would look like someone had been at it with a chainsaw...

 

[Saul Goodman]

Magnificent! I want to see the scenes when the first person puts a glass on it without a coaster.

That'll be me in about a week's time.
The sad thing is it's probably going to be used as a computer desk.

 

[clicker]

Really lovely.

 

[Aladdin]

That'll be me in about a week's time.
The sad thing is it's probably going to be used as a computer desk.

Nooooooo

Cant you 3D print a computer table?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

The sad thing is it's probably going to be used as a computer desk.

worth getting a table protector of some sort so you can use it as a dining table for special occasions?

 

[Saul Goodman]

worth getting a table protector of some sort so you can use it as a dining table for special occasions?

I'm kinda torn. It's been my computer table for over 20 years, but it got a lot of abuse from spilled coffee and other such tragedies, hence the refurb. I liked it as a computer table but it seems a massive shame to use it for that now, as its much nicer now than it ever was. Unfortunately, if I decide to use it as a dining table, there are six chairs that belong to it, and they're in as bad a state as the table was, which would mean taking on a monumental task that I really don't want to take on. I have a week to ten days to make a decision while the lacquer cures fully... Decisions decisions.

 

[Aladdin]

I'm kinda torn. It's been my computer table for over 20 years, but it got a lot of abuse from spilled coffee and other such tragedies, hence the refurb. I liked it as a computer table but it seems a massive shame to use it for that now, as its much nicer now than it ever was. Unfortunately, if I decide to use it as a dining table, there are six chairs that belong to it, and they're in as bad a state as the table was, which would mean taking on a monumental task that I really don't want to take on. I have a week to ten days to make a decision while the lacquer cures fully... Decisions decisions.

Well...you can make a computer table out of mdf in 2 days.

 

[Epona]

I'd go with dining table as you have chairs to go with it - yes it will be some work to refurb the chairs, but you'll have a lovely set at the end.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I'd go with dining table as you have chairs to go with it - yes it will be some work to refurb the chairs, but you'll have a lovely set at the end.

and then fit the kittehs with mittens so they can't sharpen their claws on any of it...

 

[Saul Goodman]

and then fit the kittehs with mittens so they can't sharpen their claws on any of it...

This is a problem. I love the cats and don't want to put them in a position where I'd have to kill them

 

[Saul Goodman]

I'd go with dining table as you have chairs to go with it - yes it will be some work to refurb the chairs, but you'll have a lovely set at the end.

When I started sanding the table, I thought "ooh, look how much I've sanded in such a short time. I'll have this finished in a few days!"... I reckon I've done three solid days of sanding, and the surfaces of the table are pretty much all flat. The chairs, on the other hand, are all curved and turned surfaces. I reckon I'd be looking at about a week per chair, and a few of the joints are a bit loose, so, knowing me, I'd probably try to dismantle them completely and rebuild them. It's a daunting prospect.

 

[Aladdin]

This is a problem. I love the cats and don't want to put them in a position where I'd have to kill them

You might need these...around the edges of the table...


Protect the table top..
And protect the cats if they skate on it.
Colourful too and you can put your elbows on them when dining.


Job done..

 

[Aladdin]

When I started sanding the table, I thought "ooh, look how much I've sanded in such a short time. I'll have this finished in a few days!"... I reckon I've done three solid days of sanding, and the surfaces of the table are pretty much all flat. The chairs, on the other hand, are all curved and turned surfaces. I reckon I'd be looking at about a week per chair, and a few of the joints are a bit loose, so, knowing me, I'd probably try to dismantle them completely and rebuild them. It's a daunting prospect.

Yep. Pretty time consuming.
But it could be very rewarding too. They could look beautiful.
Might not need the same level of table top sheen.

 

[Epona]

When I started sanding the table, I thought "ooh, look how much I've sanded in such a short time. I'll have this finished in a few days!"... I reckon I've done three solid days of sanding, and the surfaces of the table are pretty much all flat. The chairs, on the other hand, are all curved and turned surfaces. I reckon I'd be looking at about a week per chair, and a few of the joints are a bit loose, so, knowing me, I'd probably try to dismantle them completely and rebuild them. It's a daunting prospect.

Yeah I know what you mean and I don't know why I am telling you to refurb the chairs, I've got 1 wobbly dining chair that I found by the communal bins (waste not, want not) a few months ago intending to unwobble and refurb it but have I fuck...

 

[equationgirl]

one of mum-tat's neighbours some years back did the whole mock tudor thing to one half of a pair of 1930s semis

We had a neighbour when I was a teenager that put lead across the windows and fake beams in various rooms in a 1980s house. My mother called it the Height of Bad Taste.