Interior 18th March 2015 20th August 2019 Garden Room Garden Room before We are about to start work on the garden room. When we moved in this was our temporary living room for…
History 11th March 2015 18th September 2019 Penraevon what does it mean Penraevon what does it mean? Above the door to the house is carved “Penraevon built ad 1882”. Where does the name Penraevon come from? what…
Exterior, Interior 9th March 2015 22nd August 2019 Zen house restoration Zen house restoration With a big house restoration project, you can see the beautiful home it will become (WHY DID YOU BUY IT IF YOU…
Products 5th March 2015 20th August 2019 Ikea Hack Tom Dixon Beat Light Ikea Hack Tom Dixon style light We are very fortunate to have three Tom Dixon Lights from the Beat range in our drawing room. They…
Products 17th February 2015 20th August 2019 Cast Iron Radiators Cast Iron Radiators As part of the rennovation of the drawing room we had to take out the old radiators as they were attached…
Interior 17th February 2015 20th August 2019 The Drawing Room The Drawing Room We christened this room the white room when we moved in due to its ornate white plasterwork, and fire surround but…
Interior 17th February 2015 9th September 2017 Drawing Room Before and After Drawing Room Before and after I have been dying to do one of these posts, we love a before and after. I can’t believe the…
Interior, Products 11th February 2015 24th August 2019 Fireplace Hearth Stone Hearth We needed to put in a hearth for the fireplace in the Drawing Room. As the house is stone built we thought it…
Products 10th February 2015 20th August 2019 Air vent cover Brass Air vent cover In the drawing room when we had removed all the false walls we discovered a large air vent in the…
Garden, History 10th February 2015 11th February 2015 A Tennis Court? A Tennis Court? We have uncovered a For Sale by Auction Notice, in the Leeds Mercury from Saturday, September 7th, 1895, for our house….
Interior 7th February 2015 26th November 2015 Dado rail and Skirting board Dado and Skirting Began work demolishing the crude office panelling that had been installed in the Living room. It was a plaster with wood…
Exterior 2nd February 2015 24th August 2019 Stonemason and a gatepost Where do you find a Stonemason? Our gateposts are big solid millstone grit posts which are crying out for the name of the house…
Products, Uncategorised 26th January 2015 20th August 2019 Door handles Discovered a fantastic place to get lovely old door handles. They are modern copies of original Victorian handles. Previously I have used salvaged door…
Interior 23rd January 2015 3rd March 2019 Repairing Stained Glass Repairing the stained glass panel We have a stained glass panel divide , it separates what would have been the family side of the…
Interior 23rd January 2015 20th August 2019 Glitter Ballroom Glitter Ballroom We have a tradesman’s entrance, which was later appropriated to be a fire exit. This narrow corridor is not a very useful…
Interior 23rd January 2015 20th August 2019 Fireplace development First thing we did when we moved in was to open out the fireplace, it had been boarded up and we had dreams of…
Interior 23rd January 2015 29th August 2015 Plastering the living room I love getting rooms plastered, they go from looking derelict and un-liveable to pristine and soft. Craig has done a great job plastering the…
Interior 18th December 2014 25th April 2017 Fire Alarms and Panic Alarms Fire Alarms, Panic Alarms burglar alarms and Switchboards Changing an office into a home means stripping out all the electrical junk that goes with…
