Showing posts with label antique bath. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antique bath. Show all posts

Saturday 21 September 2013

Thornton Bibliothèque suite

We have had a wild time to renovate our attic.  
Read our previous posts here 
and here 
The final countdown . . . . . . 

“Second hand books are wild books,
homeless books;
they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather,
and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.” 

Virginia Woolf


“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an
excellent library.” 
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice



If you have a garden and a library,
you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed,
I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before i'd let go of the books I possess
H P Lovecraft 


Thank you for visiting till next time 
Sandra

Thanks for sharing our story  


Sunday 15 May 2011

Regenerated old salvage building materials from old ruins

 In 2007 this process started.  First we had to salvage old building materials.  The term beg, borrow and steal got new meaning. The photo's tell the story!  Hennie (my husband ) did almost everything with the help of Eric Maleka.  


The foundations where once a quince lane grew
After approval of our local municipality the digging started and  hand mixing of the "dagga" could be heard.
The layer for sandstone, that was hand dressed on the premises and every one was dressed to fit a certain space.
It was time to fit the bay windows.  












Slowly but surely progress
is made.
The window sills
As you can see the second
storey is also going strong




Adam Trusscott has honoured us
with this wonderful sketch 

Brick-by-brick an old wall is removed.
The old mud bricks it to be utilized again. 


After many time and errors the stairs is now leading to the top floor 
Oregon pine floors in the upper storey 

Fireplaces is now in every little nook!
Remember wintertime is on average -7 degrees Celsius




Floors in the bathrooms - trying to keep with the time -
 black and white is the theme!
Hennie is the artisan

Parquet floors in the lounge  
Start of the ceiling 











Ceiling fitting

Bathroom fitting 


Sussex bath before restoration
Lovely eagle tub feet
The finished product




Then it was time to get access to the attic

Hennie and Eric are holding on for life
The walkway is almost there!!

Wednesday 23 March 2011

Renovating De Oude Huize from 2000


The front door had six layers of paint that needs to be removed. 
My husband, Hennie, used every known way to strip the paint.  
Eventually it was heated with a blow torch and then scraped of.  
This restoring process took months.  Eventually all the doors, window frames and all wood was now exposed.  Beautiful Oregon pine and Yellow wood now graces our house.   
You can now follow the renovation process and the improvements that happened at De Oude Huize
Handpainted wallpaper found behind an old ceiling 

Old window that was found during renovations.

The bath before re-enamaling