interior 2/2

Clean slate

Concurrently with the putting up of dry lining we have been laying a slate tile floor in the shower room. A decoupling mat was stuck to...

Our friends Brendon and Mark dropped by this afternoon to give us a hand moving some things that Mark and I can't manage by ourselves....

We are using Fermacell Building Board to dry line the plinth and stud walls. Each board weighs circa 42Kg. This weight, together with the...

We have bought 4 oak pews and a pew front to act as a room divider. Apparently these were commisioned in 1850 for St Barnabas Church in...

This pitch pine table, bought from a second hand shop in Pokesdown, came from a local Baptist Church. Originally used as the church...

One of the first purchases we made on eBay were of 3 pairs of doors removed from Waterloo Station for safe-keeping during the blitz. Two...

We picked up an unused whitewood and mdf staircase on eBay. The company that manufactured it had made it the wrong size! We couldn't use...

The gallery balustrade has been propped into position and secured to the floor. Small stud walls will be built at either end. Once the...

Before we could begin to lay the UFH piping Mark had to build a stud wall to support the manifold. He couldn't attach the wall stud to...

We bought a job lot of 15 high bay lamps on eBay for £1.20! They had previously hung in a gym. We had to pick them up from Derbyshire...

... chronicles the building of a strawbale house to replace a WWII Portal bungalow in rural Dorsetshire.