Our Edinburgh Tenement Project
Check out all of our new doors! This is by far my best Gumtree find yet… five doors from a lovely house in Morningside which is being refurbished too. All for the sum of £75, then another £45 for delivery. That’s about as much as one door costs, without delivery, from the salvage yard at Holyrood….
This is why it’s important to really thoroughly clean the walls of old wallpaper paste. Jennie painted some test patches yesterday, and they looked like this: You can faintly see the pattern of the old Anaglypta underneath. We had this all over the wall and I was kind of hoping that it would just disappear…
We have a bit of a reputation for being stingy with the central heating, turning it on late, keeping it low, etc. That’s gone to the nth degree this year, as I took a radiator off the wall in the living room to redecorate, and didn’t put it back, so the heating isn’t on yet….
Two days from my last picture, and that alcove’s a lot fuller! Thanks to Brian, John, and Hamish, we now have a fantastic built in cabinet and shelves, all ready to paint. (At least, when we’ve found some nice handles for the cabinet) I’m really pleased with the work they’ve done for us, and when it’s…