Our Edinburgh Tenement Project
I think it’s often easier to do stuff yourself than pay for it to be done. The last fortnight has been quite difficult for us, having the plumbers in: it’s a week after the expected finish date for their work, and we still have no hot water or heating (which would be off anyway, but…
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…