Archive for September, 2006
Before and after
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006This picture shows the difference between the way the house looked before we started and when we’d almost finished. The splashback tiles haven’t yet been put on the walls, so the kitchen isn’t fully finished.
You can see the new ceiling we put in to replace the other. The old ceiling was made up of cross beams (half trunks) with reed […]
Restoring the floorboards
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006The floorboards in Galeş had lovely old pine floorboards, which had not been well looked after - they had woodworm, showed some signs of rot, and in places had warped. We considered replacing them with new pine floorboards, but knowing that old wood can be restored to look amazing, trusted to our optimism that they […]
Our stunning new project
Friday, September 15th, 2006Once in a blue moon do you find your dreams matched by reality and attainable, which is how we felt when we saw this house for sale, in Biertan. We had befriended Bianca, a lovely, sweet Romanian who works in Biertan during the summer months, and asked her to tell us if a house came […]