SleepyGirl
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Reged: 28/10/2008
Posts: 19
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I've long been a lurker and an avid reader.
Finally finished most of the rooms in our humble house of horrors.
It’s been 4 years in the making (We started with the garden first)
and in the past 6 months have been able to do the fun stuff after years of putting right a truly awful ‘development’ by the previous owner.
Its nothing cutting edge but, whenI see the “before” photos, it makes me want to squeal with happiness!
1. Lounge - origanally this was the dining room.
The joists were rotten, windows rotten, ceiling anaglypta
- and the four walls anaglypta - with an innovative different pattern on each wall!
and after:
The Kitchen....
We lived with what had been a new kitchen when we bought the house...
We just retiled the walls and floor.. I loved the
floor so didn't change it when we had teh new kitchen fitted.
But (un)luckily the boiler packed in and we were able to move it into the out-house.
We took down the chimney (from roof downwards) and had a great space.
Used the left over work surface to make shelves and
got a recycled train luggage rack for storage.
The clock that I would have sold my soul for....
This was our old lounge (we decided to swap the rooms)
and it's now the dining room.
My other half has kept every gig ticket he's ever been to...
He started when he was 13 and I framed them for his birthday
(There are 6 of these buggers!!!)
Bedroom before (including Xmas stockings 
And after...
And I couldn't resist putting a couple of the garden in. It had been used as a vegetable patch for 30 years.
I cleared it and started from scratch.
I've no photos from this year as it was full of rubble
and by the time we'd cleared it all,
there was no summer. The newer pics are from last year.
After: (With my pal in staring role)
And a view from upstairs
Still things to do yet with the house but I've been dying to have something to post.
Lucy
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bobble
old hand
Reged: 02/04/2008
Posts: 935
Loc: Dust
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It's absolutely beautiful! A big well done! I particularly like the way you have displayed photos and personal memorabilia, so unique.
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MissMapp
old hand
Reged: 30/05/2007
Posts: 953
Loc: Glorious Tilling
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Its blooming lovely. Very relaxed, stylish and personal. You should be rightly proud of yourselves!
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Sev
member
Reged: 23/02/2007
Posts: 158
Loc: aberdeenshire
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Excellent work! I love what you have done and I agree with bobble all the personal touches really make such a difference.
Can I ask where the hurricane lamp on the coffee table is from?
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siane
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 23/11/2006
Posts: 2683
Loc: Waiting for spring
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It looks great! The hallway, big clock and kitchen tiles are my particular favourites. Are the tiles Fired Earth? And where did the clock come from, is it antique?
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amyoliver
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Reged: 19/06/2007
Posts: 2775
Loc: Awaiting further instructions
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Wow - what a fantastic job. And what a great post, I loved your narrative all the way through. It is really lovely, and I loved the pic of you sitting in the garden looking so chuffed!! I really like the use of neutral walls and then interesting objects (ticket stubs, lovely clock) displayed against them. Well done, really glad you de-lurked to share with us!! 
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SleepyGirl
stranger
Reged: 28/10/2008
Posts: 19
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Blimey... thank you 
Sev - The hurricane lamp is a gem of a find - Sainsburys!!!
I'd seen some in magazines from Ralph Lauren. Ralph's price? Too much. Sainsburys? I think I got it for under a fiver.
Siane - The tiles are Fired Earth ... Bit of a bargain again... Whoever packed them must have thought each box had a hundred tiles - halfway through tiling there seemed to be loads left and we realised there were around 130 in a box. Yes, I do feel a tad guilty but, the boxes were already open - that's my excuse!
The clock and the luggage rack are from a fantastic place called ...
http://www.trainspotters.uk.com/
I adore their finds... just got to work out a way to win the lottery and be able to go on a splurge.
Thank you for the lovely comments.
Lucy
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HollyJack
enthusiast
Reged: 27/10/2008
Posts: 220
Loc: cloud cuckoo land
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Wow what a transformation! No wonder your squealing with happiness-well done x
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roma
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 20/05/2007
Posts: 1659
Loc: Home!
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I'd be squealing with happiness too! That's really lovley! All of it!!
Well done!!!
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griffo68
Supreme being
Reged: 13/09/2006
Posts: 8608
Loc: ...in a galaxy far far away
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Wow....Great transformation, you have been working hard!!
Now you can just sit back and enjoy it!
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Lukens
enthusiast
Reged: 13/10/2007
Posts: 212
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Lovely
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Melafrique
old hand
Reged: 07/12/2006
Posts: 1099
Loc: Blessed ....
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what a beautiful place you have.
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lili
veteran
Reged: 31/07/2006
Posts: 1377
Loc: Sycophants Anonymous
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Wow, what a lovely house! You have done a great job, it feels calm and cosy but also very stylish.
Love the garden too! And the Xmas tree!
No wonder you are sleepy after all that hard work!
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houseenvy
Grand master
Reged: 02/08/2007
Posts: 3928
Loc: Room 101
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It's lovely, well done! I also love the way you have displayed your mementoes, the light above the dining table, the stuffed puffin and butterflies... It looks like a very warm and welcoming home.
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Lilia
journeyman
Reged: 31/03/2007
Posts: 59
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Hi, your house is lovely, really simple and personal and i really like your bed! Your house is a similar layout to mine and it's s nice to see a house similar looking finnished! well done x
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SleepyGirl
stranger
Reged: 28/10/2008
Posts: 19
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Thank you.
I'm a bit of a magpie and love junk shops... The bed is one of the things I am most chuffed with.
The head board is actually 2 old doors that I got the carpenter to mount together.
I bought them years ago with the intention of making them into a headboard but
had to wait to replaster the bedroom and do the ceiling. The mirror is salvaged from the same building -
it's a barred window frame but I put a mirror behind the bars.
I fell for them due to the knackered paint ...
the photo's don't do them justice so here's an obsessive close up!!
The Xmas tree is from a before photo so even more chuffed - especially
as I made all the red glitter angels from salt-dough -
I went a bit 'Blue Peter' last year!
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annavall
member
Reged: 25/04/2007
Posts: 164
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I love your house, you have done such a good job!
The ticket display is a great idea - I might steal it myself.
Shows that patience is everything I guess... I am too impatient!
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amybelle
journeyman
Reged: 27/02/2008
Posts: 95
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I think its gorgeous!
I love your photo wall ( I want one), the kitchen floor tiles (you were so right to keep them), the ticket stubs (so sweet of you)and I just love your garden. You lucky thing!!
Can I ask where you got your little stuffed birds/ butterflies from? Are they from Trainspotters too?
Well done!!
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LisaJ
addict
Reged: 05/01/2008
Posts: 489
Loc: in the dark (room)
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Your home is beautiful. Well done.
I'd sell my soul for your clock - where is it from? It's gorgeous.
Also loving the photo wall.
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susan14
Supreme being
Reged: 05/12/2007
Posts: 5326
Loc: in a christmas countdown!
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a beautiful home!!! I love your clock!
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