Previous projects
Painting & Decorating ~ It's all about the prep !!
Keep it Rustic !
Nine doors over two floors, plenty of woodwork. Radiator and bannisters. Hardwood upper-floor and stairs.
Over 200m of masking tape.
I had to protect the hardwood from, yes, paint, but more-so, paint dust which could get stuck in every crevice.
Farrow & Ball paint colour chosen by the client works really well against the 'Cabbages & Roses' wallpaper.
A great little hand sander attached to vacuum cleaner minimised dust and even stayed on the wall due to the suction.
Pics below run in chrono order, beginning with some bare-wood doors and their blemishes, thru the masking & prep to the finish.
Time taken - 9 days.
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In this bedroom project the bare plaster was beautiful but the expanse of walls and ceiling made it seem a bit too samey.
The client wanted to keep some bare plaster - we decided to paint only the walls.
Where two of the walls met the ceiling there was no edge - the ceiling curved into wall.
I created a straight paint edge with masking tape.
Time taken - 1 day.
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Garden furniture rescue!
One more year of exposure would have made this job extremely difficult.
Fortunately the client had invested in a good-quality hardwood set and I had only to remove, harden and refill in six areas.
Plenty of wire brushing, wire wool and sanding was required.
One coat of primer and two of Zinsser Allcoat (amazing paint that dries quickly, allowing fast recoat time) . They should be good for years.
Time taken - 2 days.
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Building works.
Chimney removal.
The part of the chimney sticking out of the roof had already been dismantled, so I 'only' had to do upstairs and downstairs.
Filthy work - old dust, soot and birds' nests.
Hard work too - the lower one got, more of the chimney was just solid brick.
Removal did make a huge difference to the uasable foorprint of the rooms, and to the feeling of space.
Time taken - 3 days.
Raised beds ~ various
In the first picture (the only one I have of that two-day project) the beds are 7 metres long.
The lawn turf was cut and lifted from their areas and the area surrounding to make a path. All the turf was flipped and reused in the beds.
Pathways were made from woodchip given for free by a local arborist - the path would need more woodchip to be added to every year or so.
The last 9 pics are of a simple replacement of the old rotten timbers with scaffold boards (2nd-hand scaff boards are one of the most cost-effective building material for raised beds)
Smaller jobs
Shelves in alcoves (no visible brackets or support) and with nice quality ironmongery.
Picture hanging, door latches, etc
Garden fence protection (unfortunately don't have any 'before' pics)
