My home renovation - The old original doors

The original bathroom door had a thick

mantle of 12 coats of paint. It took me

a week to get all the paint of.

Now, to my mind it looks much better.

Two sides of the frame I had to have

newly made, so I'll wait a while before

I treat them with oil like the door.

The living room doors had had a two-tone paint

job, beneath which were various other colours

the last of which was a very old treatment that uses 

lead, egg yolk, pigment and resin.

This was as hard as rock and took 9 days of sanding

to get rid of, because no product I bought would

shift it.

After six days I still had a lot of the hard base layer

to get rid of in all those difficult angles.

Now the doors have been oiled and rehung.

I'm so happy I persevered, although I've poisoned

myself by breathing in the old lead paint dust.

Masseria Alchemia - Puglia

Take a look at the video:

Masseria Alchemia Video

Pleasing images

Stable house

My home renovation - floors

The entrance and bath tubs (inside & outside) 

have been coated in a very pale grey pastellone

with all these right-angles the off white paintwork

seems to have endless hues.

Looking from the entrance into the 

kitchen

The kitchen and terrace pastellone 

floors are a pale putty-beige

The same putty-beige colour covers the 

built-in kitchen work surface

The putty-beige pastellone flooring 

carries on up the stairs to the bed loft

Bed loft

bed loft

Leccese stone peep-hole/air vent

Lower bathroom in Pale grey pastellone

The kitchen terrace

The putty-beige flooring picks up again from the

living room through the bedroom into the main

bathroom

main bedroom

main bathroom

Clay masks

I spent a number of hours this week

happily crafting these clay masks.

I might make more and hang them 

on a wall in my new home.

My home renovation - ever closer

On stripping away the top layer of old 

paintwork from the vaulted ceiling in the 

bedroom, we were left with remnants of 

many different colours from early 20th and 

late 19th century. The effect was very 

interesting. However with the colours 

being tones of brick, pink, claret and cream, 

I decided to fade the effect with a wash off

off-white.

I love this corner of the living room with all its 

angles curves and varying levels

The Mapelastic in the tubs will ensure

that no moister will seep into the 

property downstairs

The shelves in the tub room are looking

good