So our house is quite old and run down. It has survived many years though, so it must be tough. Like trying to hammer the nails into the floor to sand and polish the floors. We had to use a small sledge hammer and there was a lot of swearing and bruised fingers, the wood is all very old hardwood and almost impossible in some places to hammer a nail into.
We have also been cleaning up some old furniture we have bought or found at the farm. We want to have older more unique furniture to suit our house which is definitely unique in a bent, old sort of a way. We have been sanding, paint stripping, reinforcing and nailing and painting. The old furniture is coming up great though and is really starting to add to the feeling in the house.
The polishing of the wooden floors was a great success and we are really happy with them. We would not, however, polish wooden floors again ourselves, we would pay someone else to do it. It is a disgusting dusty hard job and is quite difficult to get right.
The old wooden floors, sanded smooth and painted with Cabot’s water based gloss floor paint. We used a lambs wool mop to apply it. I cut in around the edges and Corinne mopped, she is the one with the painting skills. The improvement is amazing.
Corinne mopping on the floor paint, the end of a hard dusty week. We actually went to a wedding up in Palm cove, NQLD at the end of this week which was a nice break.
The dining and kitchen with new white walls and polished floors. The dust from the sanding though was very difficult to get off the new white walls.
Someone put bare copper pipes on the wall in our shower. A few coats of special metal rust kill paint and the pipes now look more elegant.
A simple wooden frame around our toilet window adds to the room and makes it feel less like a jail cell. Yet to be painted
This is an old home made wooden cabinet we found in a shed. We sandined, cleaned and repaired the cabinet and then painted it with the floor polish. The cabinet is huge and adds a great amount of storage.
polished floors, joins in the floor where there are holes and a lot mess.
This is a little stool we found at an Op shop. Sanded and cleaned with a new coat of paint, a great $5 bargain.
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