Decorating

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:34 am

Decorating is way down the list of things I enjoy doing, I mainly stood back and watched this time. I'm setting this one up as a bedroom on the floor above the main entrance.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:38 am

A lovely big room.

Are the windows the original Georgian sash ?

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:41 am

There's not a lot of Georgian in Bristol. They're the original sashes from 1883 when the house was built.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:45 am

Who did the decorating?

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:47 am

The children, most of it.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:49 am

I'm not much of a fan of wall paper but i like that pattern. Nicely done.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:50 am

Is that the original floor? What kind of wood is it?

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:51 am

Týr;1409706 wrote: There's not a lot of Georgian in Bristol. They're the original sashes from 1883 when the house was built. Very nice.... pleased to see no revolting UPVC replacements there.

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:57 am

Ahso!;1409710 wrote: Is that the original floor? What kind of wood is it?

That's a carpet, the only original polished wood floor is the main level on the floor below.

It's not an easy layout to describe - this is the outside and the room's the one at the top right.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 9:04 am

Beautiful building.... Clifton Is so full of history.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 1:10 pm

Týr;1409712 wrote: That's a carpet, the only original polished wood floor is the main level on the floor below.

It's not an easy layout to describe - this is the outside and the room's the one at the top right.

Is that really your house? Way cooler than mine!

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 1:23 pm

flopstock;1409725 wrote: Is that really your house? Way cooler than mine!

I have the impression residential units in the US are replaced at intervals and there are proportionately fewer which predate the fifties. The owner commissions the construction of a new residence on the plot occupied by the earlier one. That's very rare in England. Occasionally here the council intervenes in a run-down area and condemns entire blocks of housing under a compulsory purchase order but other than that the norm is to improve rather than rebuild.

Which is why most of the 1870-1890 housing along this side of the Downs in Bristol still looks as it did a hundred years ago, if you ignore the cars cluttering the streets. Internally what were single residences are now predominantly apartments which collectively sell for more, the houses break naturally into three unconnected units. Mine hasn't ever been split up that way and I'd be reluctant to cause such damage.

You may reckon it cool but I bet yours is easier to maintain.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:59 pm

Lovely room, great windows. Looks ready to move in. What's my rent, in case Robme wins? :wah:

ps--nice view!

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:05 pm

See that tiny window on the roof ? That's where Tyr is chained up. He has seen little the last 40 years but the seasons that pass his window and the hand that slips his food under the door

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:05 pm

It's beautiful inside and out!

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 7:56 pm

I would go with Venetian Blinds for each of the three windows and a large dark beige or brown throw rug for the floor.

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sun Nov 04, 2012 3:36 am

Snowfire;1409740 wrote: See that tiny window on the roof ? That's where Tyr is chained up. He has seen little the last 40 years but the seasons that pass his window and the hand that slips his food under the door

You are, I fear, uncannily correct and I'll tell you, until the heating was upgraded it was damn cold up here when snow settled on the roof. It was originally intended as room for four maids which made it a lot warmer.

The hand that slips the food under the door carries bite-marks.

Lon;1409771 wrote: I would go with Venetian Blinds for each of the three windows and a large dark beige or brown throw rug for the floor.

The curtain arrives tomorrow, or I'd put the idea forward. The rug on the floor would be a good move, yes.

Each room immediately below on the lower two floors is the same shape, the middle one with a foot more ceiling height and the bottom one a foot less. The middle uses wooden shutters and needs nothing more, the bottom one is being considered for roll-up blinds on a string. I think that was preferred as being easier to dust than slats.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Nov 04, 2012 3:09 pm

Snowfire;1409740 wrote: See that tiny window on the roof ? That's where Tyr is chained up. He has seen little the last 40 years but the seasons that pass his window and the hand that slips his food under the door

Bullseye - that's where the computer is :wah:

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:54 am

Týr;1409726 wrote: I have the impression residential units in the US are replaced at intervals and there are proportionately fewer which predate the fifties. The owner commissions the construction of a new residence on the plot occupied by the earlier one. That's very rare in England. Occasionally here the council intervenes in a run-down area and condemns entire blocks of housing under a compulsory purchase order but other than that the norm is to improve rather than rebuild.

Which is why most of the 1870-1890 housing along this side of the Downs in Bristol still looks as it did a hundred years ago, if you ignore the cars cluttering the streets. Internally what were single residences are now predominantly apartments which collectively sell for more, the houses break naturally into three unconnected units. Mine hasn't ever been split up that way and I'd be reluctant to cause such damage.

You may reckon it cool but I bet yours is easier to maintain.

Now I'm almost embarrassing glad you never took me up on my offer of the basement bedroom and bath if you ever decided to travel the US.. I'm no where near as fancy as you.

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:45 am

flopstock;1409858 wrote: Now I'm almost embarrassing glad you never took me up on my offer of the basement bedroom and bath if you ever decided to travel the US.. I'm no where near as fancy as you.

I don't imagine either of us would say no if a member asked for bed and board so they could travel and you know very well I'll ring ahead and stop off if I'm passing that way.

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:50 am

We've reached halfway, I just wandered around with a camera. All that's left is the three main rooms, a bathroom, the games room and the stairwell. And a utility room nobody can work out a purpose for which used to be the boiler room until we replaced the central heating. It would, before the advent of Photoshop, have made an ideal darkroom.

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/membe ... -2013.html

The keen-eyed will notice two skirting boards not yet fitted, I'm still trying to find a pattern match.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:34 am

Someone has been busy. Are we looking to venture into property development perhaps ?

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:50 am

Snowfire;1432489 wrote: Someone has been busy. Are we looking to venture into property development perhaps ?If buying and selling houses weren't subject to such extortionate agency costs it would be easier to attempt. On the other hand I have it in mind to find some two-up two-down inner city terraced Victorian houses Up North and turn them into bolt-holes, if I have enough of them nobody will know where I've got to.

eta: like this one, for example. I went to school less than a mile from there. It's quite pretty.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:12 am

2 bedroom terraced house for sale in Spring Street, Blackburn, Lancashire BB1 - 29104962 - Zoopla

Heres a start to your search

I'd buy just to tell people I live near Oswaldtwistle

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:34 am

Snowfire;1432492 wrote: 2 bedroom terraced house for sale in Spring Street, Blackburn, Lancashire BB1 - 29104962 - Zoopla

Heres a start to your search

I'd buy just to tell people I live near Oswaldtwistle

I had a shock off an electric cattle fence near Oswaldtwistle when I was a lad. They were new-fangled back then, I'd never heard of them.

That's not a part of Blackburn I recognize, I spent several years walking out to Alexandra Road when I was at school there. Why I switched schools so often I can't recall. As a town I'd be more than happy to live there some of the time, it has a lot going for it.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:10 pm

Týr;1432488 wrote: We've reached halfway, I just wandered around with a camera. All that's left is the three main rooms, a bathroom, the games room and the stairwell. And a utility room nobody can work out a purpose for which used to be the boiler room until we replaced the central heating. It would, before the advent of Photoshop, have made an ideal darkroom.

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/membe ... -2013.html

The keen-eyed will notice two skirting boards not yet fitted, I'm still trying to find a pattern match.

That's looking really good - you've all been really busy and I'm much impressed with the results.

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:42 am

Bryn Mawr;1432523 wrote: That's looking really good - you've all been really busy and I'm much impressed with the results.

I'm shifting four tons of rock border around this week to edge the back lawn and do Japanese-style formal shapes and piles across the yellow-chip front feature. How I talk myself into these things I've no idea. It started out as "the Buddleia must be destroyed", much like Carthage. Buddleio delenda estŽ. The Buddleia has gone to its just reward. Somewhere this week I heard in a news item that "Brazil has the third highest known population of Roman Catholics, surpassed only by Purgatory and Hell" and the Buddleia came instantly to mind.

Actually that was Jeremy Hardy on this week's News Quiz discussing the Pope's visit, but he *sounded* like a newsreader.