Home DIY

I'm looking for some kind of nice looking support/bracket solution for our alcoves. After months of nagging my dad to give me a hand with some shelving he dropped off about half a ton of teak and mahogany over the weekend in various lengths and states. He left a plane, wet stone, couple of saw horses and told me to get the fuck on with it.

The above alcove houses the boiler and was a bit of an eye sore - the shoe racks are a pretty good solution and the rest of it all slides out should there be need to get to the boiler and pipework.
In the alcoves in the bedroom we had fixed wardrobes built in MDF because we were painting them. What sort of shelving are you after and for what?

Anyone have any reccos for floor paint? Need a grey for our stairs.

Also there are a few gaps, some are big so going to filly with wood and sand down/fill. But for the treads themselves will filler work and then paint over?

Something to fill this up:

We'd like 4 on the left and 3 or 4 on the right.

Left = CDs and vinyl

Right = books and AV equipment.

PS - the before:

and the during:

Sweet Jesus - the before was terrifying.

Does anyone have experience in fitting an up&over garage door themselves?

Great job! Lamp and table ID? Did you do skirting yourself? Is it piss easy?

Can't believe you've ruined the lovely original brick features or that period fireplace.

You're worse than Sarah Beeny.

Skirting is fairly easy - just need to be accurate with measurements. We got pre-primed stuff so just need to gloss when we can get around to it. Unfortunately the walls even after plastering are a bit wonky so it'll need some filling.

Lamp (really nice in the flesh - though easily whacked if you're walking past/bending to reach plug sockets underneath it):
http://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-grayson-reach-floor-lamp-grey/p1617449?colour=Grey

Table (actually brilliant - we wanted the walnut version but 16 weeks delivery >>>>>)
http://www.made.com/flippa-functional-coffee-table-with-storage-oak

Pro tip - when you lift up the main lid on the coffee table only place books centrally, don't tuck them in against the walls or when you close the lid the metal armature inside crushes it - I now have a dent through the hard cover and first few pages of a Star Wars book.

:)

Even lollier is the fact that the lovely original brick features were a GCSE (O-Level project actually) from the previous owners son back in the early 80s that they decided to keep (probably because it was such a fuck pig of a job to chisel them off).

great info!

We were looking at this: http://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-wright-floor-lamp-oak/p1891338

Our sofa is going to be birch ply and pine. And a woodburner will go in the chimney on 21st, really relying on their plasterer for not fucking it up.

I've used Ronseal Diamondhard floor paint which has worked well so far (also used their floor varnish), but I'd really need to report back in another coupl of years to say how well it has lasted.

Does anybody have any recommendations for where I can buy a casement window, built to size?

@CYOA

Something like this could look good wrapping across at a similar height ta mantel piece

Yeah,
but I've been locked in the garage for the last 4 years.

The fitting of the sliding track looks solo-able,
but even my flimsy lightweight aluminium door
would benefit from another pair of hands 'on the side'
when lifting into position.

Didn't fit, but garage door was inoperable when we bought this place,
and,
it took two of us, one on the door,
one on the runners to get it mobile again.

I'd just run battens round and then case it in the teak. Maybe panel behind it to a third of the way up

Bathrooms coming along nicely. I'm painting it myself, what do I need to know about painting over mouldy bathroom walls? Bleach and scrub them then find proper paint?

You really messed that one up, those bricks were top spec...

Glad someone else broke the silence and said it, another vote for the bricks.

HG Mould spray is brilliant stuff

Grey scheme looks like a prison day room.

It kills silicone sealant though

I tend to remove it. WD40, remove and reseal.

I've noticed that with the HG Mould Spray, I figured it was eating the mould that's got behind the silicon and that's why the seal gives up, could be wrong though.

Party wall act?