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!
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Renovation Diaries 09. Salvaging, repurposing and restoring, plus plastering and painting progress!
In this mid-week Renovation Diaries post, the Chapel interior takes shape in a big way. I will share some of my salvaging finds and discuss how I am incorporating them into the design. We work on the re-building some of the original panelling and I set about restoring my nan’s old table too.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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