Daydream fund challenge part 4

phoebe1989seb

It does look very nice CTC - very country cottage - and if the walls are in *that* bad a state and you think the wallpaper will mask it, maybe it's the best decision

I guess if you plan to sell quickly the wallpaper won't have a chance to lift due to damp atmosphere as ours has - our house was empty around two years before we bought it as the PO went off and bought himself a £1.4 million place to house his forty-odd cars, lol :rotfl: Shame he couldn't be a$$ed to spend some of his millions on a gardener/handyman while this house sat empty

Well, we've been busy bees here - have taken down one wall of units in the former kitchen and moved our free-standing larder cupboard in. I was hoping to salvage the old cupboards for resale/freecycle, but they're pretty knackered and not salvageable as they fell apart during removal. Will keep hold of the granite work surface and sell this when we've taken the other run of cabinets out to make space for our dresser.....

We then had to completely rejig the kitchen-to-be in order to make it both dog-friendly and to get an idea of what it will look like finished . I just need to get a wiggle on with painting the new cabinets now, but what with gardening, making new covers for the verandah furniture and stripping wallpaper, I'm going to be hard-pushed to get it done by my deadline (end of May when DS, his GF and puppy visit)

Onwards and upwards.....

Hopefully tomorrow will be drier and I can get the lawns mowed

phoebe1989seb

choille wrote: »

Very Fresh CTC.

B&Q are doing laminate flooring on offer for £10 square metre.

Painted floors look nice, or Oxalyic acid will bleach out the black marks. Fill wormholes with brown wax - not ear wax! Polish such as briwax will really fill holes & bring the boards up a treat. Rugs are great on boards & easy to keep if you sell the house.

Freezing here, really BBBBBaaaallltic.

In the last house we ended up painting all the bedroom floors on our middle and top floors Choille, it was the least expensive and most effective way of dealing with them in order to achieve the finished article and a quick sale

We spent a small fortune on Fired Earth antique limestone for the 36' kitchen and 60 sq m of engineered oak for the rest of the ground floor. We picked up end of line Karndean for tbe two upstairs bathrooms and tiles for the ground floor shower room, and had planned to carpet upstairs before deciding to sell. In the end some left over paint and inexpensive ikea rugs did the job

Luckily we also found some Roger Oates stair runner on tbe bay for a fraction of retail cost....have paid full price this time (well, Jan sale, lol!) and know how much £££ it costs

I think painted floors in CTC's bathroom should be fine. I've mentioned before but our last house had literally zillions of worm holes and I was fully expecting our buyer's surveyor to recommend timber reports - especially as we had bought three years earlier with no survey whatsoever - but no, he seemed to understand that with a house of that age they went with the territory. I was convinced we had death watch beetle too, but he made no mention of that

ferretkeeper

That's a nice paint/paper combo CTC it would indeed suit the ranch! It's so annoying when painting won't do, I haven't decorated our downstairs loo yet, which is lining paper over tiles or plasterboard, with all the lines of scrim tape showing through because they never skimmed the walls. I really don't know what to do in there, a heavy textured wall paper would help but I hate the naff designs.

Weather's been all over the place today, dull at first then sunny and dry, now half heartedly raining, just as I had some outdoors stuff to do so I got pretty wet! I've been trying to stir up some creative energy, got a new avenue to explore in the glass making, using empty bottles. I'm on the look out for different coloured ones, but a lot are coated or painted, so will be hitting the charity shops for other glass items to cook in the kiln.

Meanwhile...Here's a photo of the royal wannabe



Note the crowd of interested onlookers behind the gate! He's the only non white lamb so far, might be like last year, when they were all white bar one, despite both rams being white. He might be the son of that one, he's still here! This lamb is so cute, his colouring reminds me of tweed fabrics for some reason, sadly going out of season!

Davesnave

Australian relatives somewhere in the line, FK?

alfie_1

I think that looks lovely ctc..
just got back from a long riverside walk... took 2 of the mini shetlands with me. passed 2 huge blood hounds who were the same size.. :rotfl:


im re-inforcing the STAND and WALK ON as they are going in the cart this year


ok, roast dinner beckons :j

phoebe1989seb

Awww, very, very cute lamb FK

Sunny here now, but threatening clouds heading this way.....looking forward to a lamb of our own here - home-cooked lamb curry with extra chillies ;)

COOLTRIKERCHICK

here is my bargain ebay buy.. upteen thousand plant pot and trays lol...


an Iveco long wheel base full to bursting, and a transit van full..lol..


mainly 2 ltre size, and loads and loads of smaller pots..


Also they have the old polytunnels for sale.. which need new plastic.. I think hubby said they were asking £150 each .. there poly in the pic is the worst looking one, and that's my youngest helping the morning after the night before... lol

COOLTRIKERCHICK

don't know what happened lol, but here are the pics part of above

ferretkeeper

Oooooh, I could be tempted by a polytunnel, esp at that price! Are you going to go for one CTC ? I take it they have several to sell, would you be able to PM their details?

Just thinking cos We were looking at chicken run things on line yesterday, to make a safe compound for the new chickies, and the ones we found were good, but more £££ than those polytunnels - we could probably adapt one to do the same job for half the price.

Lovely plants IHS I've got my eye on some euphorbias for the garden, evergreen ones in particular, but also for the bright zingy flowers early in the year and to off set hot coloured dahlias and the like later in the season.

Not that I know of Dave! but possibly part gazelle in there somewhere juding by the leaping and racing up and down the other littlies were doing the other day!

alfie_1

all this talk of painting has got me thinking re this house. id like to do the halls but theres so much of it ! 2 staircases plus a walkthrough upstairs the length almost of the house ..... the downstairs has 6 doors off and the upstairs has 7.... daunting.
id like to rearrange the sun room and have something tropical on the walls...


mind you LIR's house is a maze ! fabulous stairs,windows etc... beautifull !