Thanks for the supportive comments on my last post. I survived the rest of the week by keeping my head down, working through some of my lunch times and not bringing any work home 😊 So I'm feeling less scunnered now especially as I've started my next big DIY project!
OH decided the next house project should be the dining hall, stairs and upstairs landing. I wanted to do the downstairs bedroom as it would be a smaller (and cheaper) project. But heyho, I'm not turning down his help. He started by removing the bulky alarm box that sat on the meter cupboard and making the wiring safe.
We then took all the carpet off the open tread stairs (typical 60s design feature in Wimpy houses!) but have left the half landing carpet for now.
Originally there wouldn't have been carpet on the stairs and all the woodwork is a lovely(!) orange woodstain!!! 🍊
OH filled in all the holes left by the carpet staples and I stripped the wallpaper off the walls.
Luckily the paper came off cleanly without any damage and no gluey residue so it looks like I can simply paint the wall after a light sanding. Woohoo!
You can see the wall colour a bit more clearly in these photos of the upstairs landing. Everything is yellow.
Yellow walls and orange woodwork!!! The plan is everything will be white. The stair treads, the woodwork and the walls all white and the carpet a sort of beige neutral. I've already ordered some specialist floorboard paint for the treads (£29.99 for 2.5 litres) but already have lots of white paint suitable for the walls and woodwork so will start by using up what I have. The biggest expense will be the carpet.
I'm aiming to have it finished by Easter! Although I do have some other small projects on the go as well 😉 Today I was painting some old photo frames and once my sewing machine finally comes back from servicing I've got some cushions to make and curtains to finish.
In other news (also making me feel less scunnered) I've lost 0.5kg/1lb this week simply by not eating the cakes in the staff room!! 🍰
That’s a lot of work you have managed and brings back memories of our previos house with the ranch board bannisters. I think ours may have been a similar hue as pine always seemed to go orange after a while. If you look at “Love made my home” blog, you will see what they did to restore an open flight staircase. My daughter got her Dad to box hers in a few years ago and paint it all white with grey carpet on the stairs. Pace yourself because Easter is quite late this year. I have just completed my first three sewing projects of 2019. Happy me!
ReplyDeleteWell done on the sewing projects!
DeleteYep, pine always seems to go that orange colour!! If this was my forever house I would consider boxing mine in. But it's too much work and cost so all I need is for the stairs to look bright and spacious.
I want future buyers to think they won't need to do any major work straight away. When I sold my last house (it took 2 years!!) that's the feedback I kept getting. Folk just don't want to decorate, they want it already done
You have to go with OH when he's working, my sister had a house with the same stairs, lovely colour for the 60's, can't wait to see your finished work.
ReplyDeleteIt'll take a lot of work but if OH is on board I have to go ahead! Lol!!
DeleteThose stairs brought back a few memories! Good luck with the project.
ReplyDeleteThanks! They're def of their time but George Clarke (of Amazing Spaces) says we can consider 60s houses as period properties now!!
DeleteThose stairs are exactly the same as the ones in my mum and dads previous house. They didn't carpet them and sometimes mum polished the stairs!! I now wonder if she was trying to get rid of us at times lol. I'm of a mind to decorate here too but we're off to Australia in a few weeks so I'll wait till we get back and hopefully the weather will be spring like and be encouraging! I live in hope. Glad to hear things are less scunnery! x
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DeleteOh def wait until you get back!
I think scunnery is my new favourite word!!!