what would you do with this house?
hi everyone,
I'd love to hear some of your ideas for this house. we finally picked up the keys last week after a long corona delayed process.
My plan is to keep as much character as possible, but we will have to make alterations as there is no central heating and wiring needs a total overhaul.
I would love to hear your ideas for interiors. Should I go full Edwardiana or something more contemporary?
https://corumproperty.co.uk/property/3-corsebar-drive-paisley-pa2-9qb/
I'll see if I can attach a pic if people don't want to look at the link.
Comments (58)
Sonia
3 years agoSome traditional ideas. Not for everyone but I think it would really suit your home.
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3 years agoTania that's such a beautiful property! One way of having Morris wallpaper AND keeping the kids is to do (for example) a frame of beading to make a panel round one or 2 strips of wall paper. This could be above a bed, or as wall panels in a living room. I will try and find examples to post, as that is not a very good explanation. That way you only need to get 1 roll of wall paper. Another way to include the beloved Morris is how I have here.
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3 years agoSonia
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoTania I have a Persian rug and it’s amazing how hardwearing it is and the pattern hides a multitude of sins! There’s a wonderful Oriental Carpet shop in Olney, Bucks if that’s in your area? Here’s a bit of my rug.
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3 years agoA wee mini update.
So we have been busy getting quotes for the rewire and central heating install (expensive, but not much more than we had planned for). I am missing doing the fun stuff like decorating so I bought myself a wee treat. I have always wanted a secret door and here it is coutesy of a cheapie wall mural sticker.
The room behind the door is actually the study!
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3 years agoReally nice space. Because the space looks really big with a lot of different colours and textures. I would probably try to remove some these elements and maybe start adding your personal taste to the space. I tried to create a very basic draft of what I mean.
As you will see from the picture below, you keep the main elements the same, but what I would suggest is bringing the whole space to a kind of neutral stage and then start adding some accents.
Tania Scott
3 years agoLatest update: not really allowed to do much before the rewire and plumbing but have had a fun little update of my bedroom fireplace.
Eventually I would love to reinstate period fires, but for now I used some peel and stick tiles to give it a wee change. Here's the before and after pics.
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3 years agoSo we have entered that awful phase of renovation where we are making the house look worse! A full rewire was done last week and beautiful column radiators are going in this week. We have decamped to a flat to allow the guys to make a mess in peace! Some pics of the chaos...
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3 years agoMore slightly geeky photos, first one is of the boiler - so excited to have central heating! Its a big beastie as it has to be for a house this size. Other pics are of heaters etc going in. The guys did an awesome job but OMG the dust!
Just because it might be useful for others, we were roughly 8500 for the full rewire and 12000 for the central heating install (boiler/pipes/radiators, the whole shebang). My column radiators were probably 6k on their own. So just over 20k for this part of the works. It came out a couple of thousand more than I was hoping for but the guys were really quick. 4 Days for the rewire, 5 or so for the plumbing. Can't complain at that, they were like locusts all over the house!
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3 years ago Tania Scott
3 years agoHi everyone,
Hope you are all doing well. What a year it has been! Thank goodness we have had the house to work on, its really given us something to focus on given the covid/lockdown stress.We have finally got one room finished! The family living room (previously a dining room) is done. Very proud of my husband who ripped out the old gas fire, removed the lovely asbestos board behind it and got to work on the new fire. I will try to attach some photos but it was a hell of a lot of work.
Like most period fireplaces it had been made smaller over the years so hubby and his trusty sledgehammer removed 6 buckets of bricks and a hell of a lot of dust! I was pretty confident that there would still be a big lintel in place when we knocked out the smaller ones, but it was rather a relieve when I was proved right and the wall didn't fall down!
We then polished up and fitted a reclaimed fireplace and hubby had a go at creating a tiled hearth. Very pleased with the end result!
Tania Scott
3 years agoThe rest of the room was a case of stripping off the old wall paper, a lot of filling and prepping on the walls then repainting. We Also gave the tired a gloss a coat of white to brighten it up. I'll attach the estate agent's photo to show you the before and after.
So that's one room done a lot more to go!
Sonia
3 years agoVicky Pow
3 years agoTania Scott
2 years agoUpdate time: yes, I'm still here, we're still working on the house slowly but surely!
Our schedule has (as you can imagine) totally gone to pot this year with the lockdowns, but we're getting a bit more done now. The last couple of weeks have been spent doing up the spare room which saw our first guests this week since September!
My husband worked really hard on this room. When we stripped the wallpaper the paint underneath was peeling and in a pretty terrible state. We used an anti-peel primer, filled holes then a skim of filler and then painted. Hard work but got there eventually. I went darker on the wall here for a change, hope you like it!
sarh123
2 years agoVicky Pow
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2 years agoTania Scott
2 years agoIt's the end of September, how did that happen! Work on the house has been a bit slow due to struggling to get tradesmen, but the lovely husband has been doing really well on his own.
We did manage to get the stained glass done which was very satisfying. The original glass panels were long gone and the replacement was sagging and dangerous, so we arranged for a local glassmaker to make us a new one. I wanted it to be a contemporary version of a victorian skylight rather than a pastiche, hope you'll agree it looks great! Before and after pics, new is the blue one!
Tania Scott
2 years agoAs you can see we still haven't managed to find anyone to plaster the hallway!
We did end up paying for a decorator to do the bigger boys' room, I went quite neutral with the colour scheme in here, but the new carpets have made a massive difference.
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2 years agoKathryn Heron
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2 years agoUpdate january 2022 - Happy New Year everyone! Gosh, 18 months into our renovation now, still loving the house, still lots to do! We are currently having all the guttering and down pipes replaced which has pretty much eaten up the last of our budget, but it'll be worth it to stop the random leaks we've been getting. We have made good progress on the 'posh' living room at the front of the house.
The biggest change is the fireplace. Like all the rest in the house it had been ripped out and replaced with a horrid 80's gas thing. We pulled out the 80's monstrosity and were excited to find... A horrible 40's monstrosity! The original was long gone. Luckily I came across an edwardian original on ebay and snapped it up for £99! Sadly it cost a lot more than that to get the flue lined and the fire reinstated but never mind.
Hubs did a great job as ever removing wallpaper and fixing walls (two full layers of filler!) and we've even managed to get some colour on. Lot's still to do including all the woodwork but loving it so far!
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