My parents used to have this pot in their back garden in Bognor and when my mum died I wanted to have it in our…
What the musician and the poet did next
Category: Restoration work
We’ve now had the living room floor stripped. The carpet had been getting more and more grubby, and it was already stained when we moved…
We have a grand hallway at the entrance to the house. It’s been sadly neglected over the years, as evidenced by the amount of paint…
The communal entrance to the house has an original (1880s) tiled floor. It could be an impressive space, although thanks to ‘fire safety regs’ and…
Although I tackled the exterior of the living room windows in the summer, the interiors were still in a poor state until recently. Peeling paintwork,…
We inherited a rather ugly and non-original fireplace in the living room, which we had removed even before we’d moved in. We then dragged our…
‘Summer house’ sounds rather grand, in fact it’s right next to the house and at the moment more of a store than anything. But we…
We’ve now completed painting the walls of the music room and the hall both in Farrow & Ball Bone. Originally we planned the music room…
We’re now finished painting the exterior of the living room windows. If you remember from my previous posts, they were in a bit of a…
When we first saw the kitchen, we both decided quickly that it was adequate but not our taste. But we knew it had to suffice…