DIY: Victorian Style house and Restoration Man project
Hello dear Steemians,
Finally it is weekend for me and after finishing my long working shift I am off. This weekend is also off for my hubby @myskye, normally he is full time involved in restoration of our house, the previous owners left everything in style of 70’s and looks like were not really bored with the look and aging of everything. For us, we knew that we have to invest much in but did not realize that it will take so much time and work.
Since then my hubby became a “Restoration Man”, it is the name of a popular British television series and once when our postman arrived with a post and once the door was opened he saw one of our working room, he called my hubby “Restoration Man”
As we have few relatives especially from my side who like to visit us regular and have also children, my hubby now decided to renovate a guest room.
The room is not big but it is good size for couple of guests. Of course it was much work to do with in two areas, first ceiling. In Victorian houses there are nice decorated corners and those in this room look slightly grayish and there are some cracks, also the wallpaper was wet so it came off.
The second problem was floor, carpet was too old and needed to be replaced and also the woods were cut in few areas that we could not keep that. The flooring was newly replaced and we have carpet.
As to ceiling, new isolated wallpaper for ceiling first the normal textured and it was then painted over for the corners the areas of cracks were filled with special fillers and shaped after that we used a special spray colors with texture of sand, that looks SUPERB!
The walls we decided to paint in tone of red ( Terrakotta ), of course we needed the lamp and decided to have a retro type one. And here it is our new guest room a la Restoration Man.
Enjoy it? ... I love what "Restoration Man" did, please convey my compliments to him ... That room is really turned into a beautiful Guest Room. I think, selection of the color has also played a major role in its beautiful transformation.
Me too, it is difficult to imagine that it is somehow fixable by ourselves without professional help but luckily lately a lot of information available in youtube that is something that gave us a lot of tricks :)
Hundred percent agreed. Youtube videos have helped me out a lot of times too whether it is about fixing the power generator, solar panels' connections, dealing with a broken head screw/nail, fixing some problem with my laptop etc.
I am happy to see that many people are sharing their DIY & How-to experiences and finds on Build-it and hope to see a lot more helpful videos and posts on Build-It as well.
Wish you a lovely day
Renovations are always complicated. You're lucky to have an expert by your side. 😊
I'm sure it will all be worth it in the end.
Thank you for such nice words, I am really lucky and I always tell my hubby that he has "golden hands" he just laughs.
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The Victorian coving around the ceiling is beautiful. Great that the previous owners retained it and you can restore it 😊
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