the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

Digger has acheived this morning the other half or so of the one big veg bed we started last year. Took us all the summer to get half done.

Clear example of where it is good to spend!

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

then you insulate from the inside and the walls are straight .....which makes it looks a bit newer still.

You need to talk to your plasterer.

When we did up an old cottage when I was a kid, my Dad got the plasterer to make it uneven and look old. I remember them having a stand up argument about it, the plasterer refusing outright to do anything but perfectly flat walls :rotfl: He did it in the end and it looked alright. I've done the same thing here at my house.

Itismehonest

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

LIR... I would just make sure i wore my snug slippers when walking out there:rotfl:

I totally love flag stones in old kitchens....

I have allways had this dream of having an old style rustic, mix n match type kitchen, with a living room at one end, with a big open rawring fire, with a battered old settee/chairs by it, with crotchet type blankets thrown over them, flag stone floor, so you could just walk in with dirt wellies on and plonk yourself in front of the fire.....take wellies off, and warm your smellie feet infront of the fire:rotfl:

I call this 'Dingle Chic' ( like the dingles on emmerdale).


For me.... personally, sometimes i find ( with all these property/restoration programmes) that they restore/modernise old properties within an inch of their life, they leave one beam, or nook etc and say its an orginal feature, and people go bananas for it... when in reality the heart of the property has been totally ripped out and modernised, to look old IYSWIM

But thats me:rotfl: should have been born in a diff centuary:D

We did a mix & match. The parts that we have built from new have slightly more modern interiors but with features that link back to the age of the property while the original has been kept in a more period style. The original is limewashed while the modern is emulsioned. It's a bit hard to describe but it works well.
Most people think all the building is of the same age.

If you want I can PM you a link to our brochure but, for obvious reasons, can't put it here.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

You need to talk to your plasterer.

When we did up an old cottage when I was a kid, my Dad got the plasterer to make it uneven and look old. I remember them having a stand up argument about it, the plasterer refusing outright to do anything but perfectly flat walls :rotfl: He did it in the end and it looked alright. I've done the same thing here at my house.

Its not so much the plasterer...we are lucky with the builders contracting plasterer who is on the same page as us, buit the fact it will be going on the flat intererior insulation......so to make it too uneven would initself be disnification. We will soften corners certainly, and it will not be flat, but it will be part of a cohesive whole that if not careful will be either too overrestored or too inauthentically twee. Striking the right npbalance is really hard i think.

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Its not so much the plasterer...we are lucky with the builders contracting plasterer who is on the same page as us, buit the fact it will be going on the flat intererior insulation......so to make it too uneven would initself be disnification. We will soften corners certainly, and it will not be flat, but it will be part of a cohesive whole that if not careful will be either too overrestored or too inauthentically twee. Striking the right npbalance is really hard i think.

In the old parts of the building we used Devonite. I think there's also a similar product used in slightly different circumstances called Limelite.
In the new builds we used modern plaster because there wasn't the same necessity to let the old walls breathe.

rozeepozee

There's always a brightside: you don't have any of these restoration issues with a 1960s bungalow! There are no quandaries about what to get rid of...

rozeepozee

Have we just passed 10,000 posts?

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

There's always a brightside: you don't have any of these restoration issues with a 1960s bungalow! There are no quandaries about what to get rid of...

One of our italian flats was a late sisties or early senties flat where everything was original....the light fittings, the floor, the COOKER and fridge. Only the washing machine was new. The cupboards and furniture was all original.

I would not have changed an inch of it. It was amazing. Milan then was a place to be, and this was a new suberb then, linking a village to the city, and everything was stunning quality. The quality of the bedroom wardrobe and bedside tables was better than most high end stores now, Beaitiful wood inlays and dovetailed joints, solid wood drawers. And it was just a flat in the burbs. How nice it would be to be able to fit one bed flats out so well, or even our own house. It felt worth taking care of that stuff!

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

Have we just passed 10,000 posts?

Yes. Maybe ctc, our founder, can start a new thread and link this and we can ask a board guide to close it for us. I will be really sad to see this go....:o

rozeepozee

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes. Maybe ctc, our founder, can start a new thread and link this and we can ask a board guide to close it for us. I will be really sad to see this go....:o

Do we need to? I was just thinking what chatterboxes we are