Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects on 27. Jun, 2008 | 3 Comments

Good morning,
Our house is a tiny two-storey, three-bedroom box.
Upstairs there is a hall that leads to all three bedrooms. When we moved in, the hall looked as follows.

The hall actually looks pretty cute in this photograph. Unfortunately, the plaster was crumbling off the walls and was very damaged. So…we removed all the plaster from the [...]

Dry-Walling The Living Room

Dry-Walling The Living Room

Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects on 04. Apr, 2008 | 3 Comments

Our latest accomplishment has been taking the living room from original plaster walls to blank-”dry-walled”-slate.

This transformation included the usual insulation, etc.

However, the living room had the added feature of requiring us to drywall the ceiling, which, as you can imagine, was rather eventful. After a few false starts, we built a simple “dead man” tool [...]