Painting the Chapel was never going to be a speedy undertaking. So over the last few weeks I’ve been a little quiet online as I’ve spent most waking hours in my overalls, in varying degrees of being covered in paint!
Read More
Renovation Diaries 08. Woodworks, insulation and boarding, weekends up the scaffold
For today’s Renovation Diaries instalment, we make strides with the exterior woodworks as the fascia boards are reinstated. There are quite a few evening and weekend painting sessions to get things looking smart before the scaffold comes down. Inside there’s lots more insulation going in and the Chapel gets boarded out. This makes the whole space inside…
Read More
Renovation Diaries 04. Construction begins, repairing, re-building, brickworks
For today’s Renovation Diaries instalment, you’ll see that the Chapel interior started to look very much like a building site…! This was also the part of the process where we brought services in, water, electric, gas, so that the Chapel could be brought up to modern day standards.
Read More
Renovation Diaries 03. Salvaging, Dismantling + Preparing for the building works
Today’s Renovation Diaries post marks a turning point in the project as things started to get pretty messy up in here! Until now, it felt like the Chapel was a relatively calm workshop space — a place to work on paint stripping, sanding + woodwork etc. But it was at this stage that the reality…
Read More
A new chapter at HOUSEPLANTHOUSE…
Hello — I’m back! For my first post after the 3 week blog-break, I’m happy to share a bit more about what’s been going on behind the scenes here at HPH. It’s certainly been an eventful couple of weeks. Long story short, at long last, I’ve just moved house + as there had never been…
Read More
How’s it hanging? Using a picture rail to hang plants
One of my favourite things about my apartment is the picture rail. I know it might sound like a relatively small detail to love quite so much, but over the last few years that I’ve lived here, it’s been one of the most useful original features of my weirdly shaped 1930’s place. Since enjoying it…
Read More
How to mount and care for a staghorn fern
For the last 9 months I’ve been knocking my head every time I get into the shower on my staghorn fern, which has been enjoying the humidity of bathroom life. I’ve been keeping it in its nursery pot but knew that I’d eventually want to divide and mount it for it to thrive. So over […]
Read More
