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 07. Plumbing, heating, electrics and more
For this Renovation Diaries instalment, there’s lots of progress on the roof and we see the installation of some of the essential services. The plumbing gets underway with the prep and installation of the underfloor heating. Outside, the brickworks are coming along and the Chapel windows are in the midst of restoration. The groundworks for the drainage…
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Renovation Diaries 06. Battening, stud work and scaffolding. Removing the roof!
For today’s mid-week Renovation Diaries post, the inside gets transformed with battening and stud work for the new internal walls. This gives a real life view of how the space will actually feel as it becomes a home. Outside, the scaffolding appears in preparation for the big task of removing the roof! If you missed…
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Renovation Diaries 05. Windows, doors and pouring the floor
Picking up pace with the Chapel renovation, today’s Renovation Diaries is an exciting one! Outside, the new/old door and window along the south wall are installed and there’s progress with the brickworks and re-pointing too.
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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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Renovation Diaries 02. Design process, Planning + Sourcing
Welcome back to another Renovation Diaries post! Today we are talking about layouts, planning ideas + the sourcing process for some key pieces that would be needed early on in the build. At this point, the Chapel felt like a woodwork studio as we started sanding back some of the features we wanted to incorporate…
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Renovation Diaries 01 : Starting the DIY
Well this is very exciting, I’m currently sitting with a cup of tea, poised to write the first proper instalment of my Renovation Diaries blogposts. First things first, if you’ve stumbled upon this post + would like a bit of background on the project as a whole, let me point you in the direction of…
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