I have been creating lots of threads to do with all the work I have been doing and thought I would throw a project thread here if anyone was interested.
This is our first house, and well hopefully our house for a long time, and we got it in July 2014. Way back almost a year in March 2015, I came home to find my wife had decided to start peeling the wallpaper off in the hallway. Well I don't blame her its awful. Here is what it was like before we moved in;
March 2015
I didn't want to start the hallway yet as I knew it was a big job and I had other areas I wanted to tackle first. Well she just peeled the top off, and for a while the hallway was a mess lol.
Not much happened then as I ended up doing the small box room as we were expecting baby in August. I also sorted out the garage and did a storage solution, which is the forums somewhere.
I also end up working long hours as I am a freelance sound engineer and well my hours are usually anything but social. Summer is busy time so dont get much then!
August 2015
We had been thinking what to do with the hallway and we decided we hated the red mahogany handrail spindles. So sanded them to see how well they would come up.
Also got all the walls back to plaster as the walls were a mess. Most of the paint under the wall paper was flaking off. All the paint came off the solid walls, and the stud walls were really messy;
Horrible job getting that all off but yea. Around the window upstairs it was a right mess too;
Then we had the baby and, well as you can expect not much happened on the DIY front. I did baby things and worked loads. I am sure there are many on here that work in the trade are self-employed so can understand what I mean. I couldn't afford to take too much time off work as I dont get any sort of paternity pay or anything. If I am not working, I am not earning money! So got busy working and did work things like these;
Brownie points for anyone who can name the band/artist
Feb 2016
Then It was late Jan and I had finally some time on my hands after putting off the work of fear of how big a task this hallway would be, I got the motivation to get the finger out and get stuck in!
Started doing sanding. Lots of sanding. Oh man, what a messy job this is.
Also note, under the stairs was more of the wood stain we didnt like and well it was not the best job that was done by previous owner. They build a stud and it didint level with wall. When I put skirting in way back when I was doing Living room, I was never happpy with it, as it meant it wasnt one nice clean line.
So after much much sanding, I got the rail sanded and the end posts. Maybe I didint have to sand them so much, but I wanted them to look in great condition before staining. The spindles I didint sand as much as I was going to be painting them.
Super happy after a few coats.
This is our first house, and well hopefully our house for a long time, and we got it in July 2014. Way back almost a year in March 2015, I came home to find my wife had decided to start peeling the wallpaper off in the hallway. Well I don't blame her its awful. Here is what it was like before we moved in;
March 2015
I didn't want to start the hallway yet as I knew it was a big job and I had other areas I wanted to tackle first. Well she just peeled the top off, and for a while the hallway was a mess lol.
Not much happened then as I ended up doing the small box room as we were expecting baby in August. I also sorted out the garage and did a storage solution, which is the forums somewhere.
I also end up working long hours as I am a freelance sound engineer and well my hours are usually anything but social. Summer is busy time so dont get much then!
August 2015
We had been thinking what to do with the hallway and we decided we hated the red mahogany handrail spindles. So sanded them to see how well they would come up.
Also got all the walls back to plaster as the walls were a mess. Most of the paint under the wall paper was flaking off. All the paint came off the solid walls, and the stud walls were really messy;
Horrible job getting that all off but yea. Around the window upstairs it was a right mess too;
Then we had the baby and, well as you can expect not much happened on the DIY front. I did baby things and worked loads. I am sure there are many on here that work in the trade are self-employed so can understand what I mean. I couldn't afford to take too much time off work as I dont get any sort of paternity pay or anything. If I am not working, I am not earning money! So got busy working and did work things like these;
Brownie points for anyone who can name the band/artist
Feb 2016
Then It was late Jan and I had finally some time on my hands after putting off the work of fear of how big a task this hallway would be, I got the motivation to get the finger out and get stuck in!
Started doing sanding. Lots of sanding. Oh man, what a messy job this is.
Also note, under the stairs was more of the wood stain we didnt like and well it was not the best job that was done by previous owner. They build a stud and it didint level with wall. When I put skirting in way back when I was doing Living room, I was never happpy with it, as it meant it wasnt one nice clean line.
So after much much sanding, I got the rail sanded and the end posts. Maybe I didint have to sand them so much, but I wanted them to look in great condition before staining. The spindles I didint sand as much as I was going to be painting them.
Super happy after a few coats.
