Our Edinburgh Tenement Project
So, long overdue an update etc. Fuller post coming soon as I have some time off to work on the bedroom this week. In the meantime… I feel like there’s a little pressure here. He keeps wandering to and fro on our windowsill checking up on me!
It’s been a while, but our flat has been a hive of activity for the last few weeks. We had an unexpected visit from my Dad, who helped us get back on track after a low point near the end of November when we thought there was no way that we’d get the room done before Christmas….
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…
We’re getting closer and closer to painting. We’ll paint directly on the plaster, which looked pretty good on first look, but all the little white patches are defects which needed filling, and I’m sure there will be more we find when we mist coat these walls! The plan is to see how it looks directly…
I did a lot more plastering over the weekend, around all our new sockets and an unnecessary trench we put above the fireplace. Pictures of all that are to come, but today I finished off my first socket! I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, for a first attempt! It will definitely need some…
We’re slowly but surely progressing towards painting the living room that I triumphantly pulled apart back in July. It’s been slow going, because any cut corners would just annoy me when it’s all finished. That’s why I spent weeks stripping all the paint off the cornice, and why we both suffered through stripping the paint…
Two weeks ago, Jennie, Angus, Gideon and I got the keys to our first flat, a first floor Victorian Edinburgh tenement, with loads of potential, and buckets of work to do. We thought we’d start as we mean to go on, so promptly went on holiday for a week. Right, Islay was really great, but…