Show us yer house and house-related meddlings

[mauvais]

Fireplace is in (fire itself still needs connecting):



The bathroom got photo'd/video'd by the people we commissioned it through:



Discovered this week to no surprise that our connecting water supply pipe (about 15m) is lead, so considering getting that replaced - they use a 'mole' now to burrow through and avoid digging a trench through the garden.

 

[kabbes]

Mine starts Tuesday 8am. The fear.

 

[Calamity1971]

Fireplace is in (fire itself still needs connecting):

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The bathroom got photo'd/video'd by the people we commissioned it through:



Discovered this week to no surprise that our connecting water supply pipe (about 15m) is lead, so considering getting that replaced - they use a 'mole' now to burrow through and avoid digging a trench through the garden.

Stunning, but ya bog roll is too far away! Unless you're Mr tickle?

 

[clicker]

Stunning, but ya bog roll is too far away! Unless you're Mr tickle?

Seconded, first thing I thought, then dismissed it as maybe me being short of arm.
Loving the green in the other room. Will look gorgeous at night with lamps and a fire.

 

[Callie]

I need to know more about the cats. I thought you had a black cat but now I'm confused. Can we have some more pictures of cats in the various rooms. Thanks.

 

[mauvais]

I need to know more about the cats. I thought you had a black cat but now I'm confused. Can we have some more pictures of cats in the various rooms. Thanks.

We have a black cat, Poirot. He is a sensible cat. Well, almost.



(old house)

We also have another cat, Hastings. Hastings was a very regal cat.



He is also a VERY STUPID cat. He rolls around in dirt and seedy plants. He gets extremely matted and won't let us sort him out. So now he looks like this:



Poor Hastings.

 

[Callie]

 

[not-bono-ever]

Now they have to work out how to rotate the beam into position with all those acro props in the way.

i do not know how, but 500kg of beam is now in place and the house has not collapsed

 

[Reno]

When I moved into my Berlin flat a bit over a year ago, the first thing I did was to strip the woodchip wallpaper, which comes standard with almost every German flat. The next thing I want to do is to replace the laminate flooring with wood, but I currently have no money.

 

[not-bono-ever]

hmm

thinking about alu checker plate as splashback for a wall between units and wall cupboards - too industrial ? would be about 3m x .75 m ....

 

[kabbes]

hmm

thinking about alu checker plate as splashback for a wall between units and wall cupboards - too industrial ? would be about 3m x .75 m ....

Depends on the units and cupboards. When done well, aluminium is awesome. When done not so well, it’s not so good...

 

[Calamity1971]

Depends on the units and cupboards. When done well, aluminium is awesome. When done not so well, it’s not so good...

Its also a shitbag to clean.

 

[moose]

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Alfie!!!

 

[moose]

Poor Hastings.

You bastards

 

[mauvais]

This arrived a few minutes ago:



Old thing! From the past!

 

[Baronage-Phase]

This arrived a few minutes ago:

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Old thing! From the past!

Hastings is fantastic. So is the chest of drawers.

 

[Sweet FA]

Farrow & Ball Stiff Key Blue

Rubbish picture but excellent colour.

 

[Sweet FA]

Also just gone green in the hall...

 

[mauvais]

Rubbish picture but excellent colour.



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Nice! My missus approves. I like the way the radiator's blended in too.

 

[Sweet FA]

Nice! My missus approves. I like the way the radiator's blended in too.

Thanks

Deciding how to paint walls with picture rails...I vaguely remember having a conversation on here years ago & I said white above/white woodwork/colour below. Someone called me old fashioned and I felt vaguely affronted. I completely agree now though.



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Miss Caphat and 5t3IIa - sorry

You're wrong

I don't know why but you have to do white above then a colour below. It looks neater and better for some reason. There is/was this thing for doing the whole thing a matt colour from floor to ceiling (and sometimes the ceiling too). It's really dated and Beetlejuice imo.

Sorry. Your home is rubbish and you should just burn it down and start again

 

[mauvais]

Thanks

Deciding how to paint walls with picture rails...I vaguely remember having a conversation on here years ago & I said white above/white woodwork/colour below. Someone called me old fashioned and I felt vaguely affronted. I completely agree now though.

I'm OK with old fashioned, which is just as well as that's probably what we're doing everywhere. I see why people subscribe to these kind of rules one way or the other but it only works if you all want the same feel, e.g. bright & airy instead of warm and cosy.

 

[Sweet FA]

Although looking at the colour of my front room now, I appear to have fully embraced the Beetlejuice aesthetic despite deriding it in 2014:

 

[kabbes]

New foundations already in (and giant bank of earth taken out too). Fast work!

 

[mauvais]

"It looks like you're building a moat"

 

[kabbes]

Also, since we are sharing photos of green rooms, here is my currently incredibly messy dining room

 

[kabbes]

Other side:

 

[mauvais]

I love it! Especially because it makes me wonder if you've built yourself a portal into the 1800s

 

[kabbes]

I love it! Especially because it makes me wonder if you've built yourself a portal into the 1800s

Wel it’s not all 1800s. Those maps are from the 1600s, for example...

 

[not-bono-ever]

Coming along slowly

 

[not-bono-ever]

Every time I look at something and think...um...how is that going to work out, I am invariably impressed when I see how everything is purposeful and ingenious. Decent builders are special.