My Home - Living here now

My home renovation - The bifora

When we removed the plaster on one

of the living room walls and this 'bifora'

was uncovered, it immediately became

the focal point of the room.

Candles warm the stone in the most

natural and timeless way bringing back

to life this 900 year old window

My home renovation - Bathrooms finished

The bathrooms in my place are finally 

finished, and today I got my gas meter

so I have hot running water too.

Interiors - stone, wood and natural

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.