the daydream fund challenge thread

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Itismehonest wrote: »

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.

ooooo brill, hope you dont mind me being nosey,

and i will pm you a link to something too..

ok if we need to start a new thread.. any ideas on a thread title?

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

ooooo brill, hope you dont mind me being nosey,

and i will pm you a link to something too..

ok if we need to start a new thread.. any ideas on a thread title?

Can we keep the day dreamers? I don't want any thing that some of us have woken up alluded to! And nothing nightmarish either:D

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

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.

I don't know what the products are we wipll use yet, i will look into those, thanks.

We have decided in the kitchen to go with a modern product. Because its more resistant in a kitchen, will work well with the interior insulation and because its cheaper. Kitchens, ime because i am mucky, benefot from wipedownable and repaintable walls. So off the peg colours on things not to moisture sentive a finish are a good idea. But the historical plasterer will be doing them and promises no hard blunt corners and edges, but a cleaner finish than we might have elsewhere in the house. Some of the new walls, e.g. In the now utility room whcih will be back door, pantry and loo...will have wood panelled walls, which i want really rustic.....farmhouse soft not town house square. We have some very, very rustic pannelling upstairs too, which i love and which we will do over insulated partition walls in the loft when we get up there.

I will be interested to see the state of the bathroom walls here....they have been painted in a kitchen bathroom type paint and weirdly, unlike other old places i have lived, it seems to have worked in there. We haveno vent axia/extractor in there, so sometimes the walls drip even with the window open over winter in the cold house but seem sound under the paint. I have a feeling disaster might lurk underneath!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

ok what about,

the daydream challange contiues?

still dreaming the dream?

will the dream become a reality?

just out of curio, why cant threads have more than 10k posts?

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

ok what about,

the daydream challange contiues?

still dreaming the dream?

will the dream become a reality?

just out of curio, why cant threads have more than 10k posts?

I like the first two best.


I think the big threads clog the system. But o think there are longer threads about, e,g. We are not being policed about it...

ukmaggie45

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I thought that was pennywort. (Or is that different?) We have it at the caravan in the hedge. I like it a lot. Am always glad to find a wild plant our landlord hasn't managed to kill off!

Last year got a lot of stick from him for having "too many pots on your patio"! All full of weeds, but they had all been planted with plants, the %^(&%^&$%% rabbits ate them all. But he's a law unto himself, OH has now told him not to speak to me but take problems direct to him. It ruined my holiday last year after altercation with him.

lostinrates

Just a stab here, but does any one have any spindle plant? Would pay for cuttings in summer.....

lostinrates

Also, think i might be having the vet out for chooks, either that or another devastatingly bad luck week. Our rooster, tweed, is old, but just found him asleep on the floor, Picked him up....and he is not a cuddly bird, and he perked up a bit but still didn't roost up but rather put him self next to Picky the cochin at ground level. I want one more breeding season from him really.......

Itismehonest

There are some times when chickens seem to get a sort of communal death wish for no apparent reason.

Is anyone sitting here fingers poised thinking "Do I type?..... Don't I?...... Is someone starting a new thread as I write? :rotfl:

I'm a simple soul it takes very little to confuse me :think: I'm happy to go with the flow, follow my leader style. Probably comes from living surrounded by sheep.

ukmaggie45

choille wrote: »

To back to someone who mentioned they had a boring hedge; I've seen a tiny, trumpet-shaped, red flower that has been grown through a hedge - it has prolific flowers & is stunning. Sorry don't know its name.

That might have been me! If you can find out what it is I'd be very interested!

Been sitting out in sunshine earlier today (free Vit D since I am low in it) and christened my lawn edger - belated birthday prezzie from PH that came last week. Seen butterfly today, not sure what as it was flying high and against the light. OH seen his first bumble bee of the year while chopping stuff down at the end of the garden.

Here's stuffed trout arrived, so gotta go eat!