Doing up her first home

Admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:33:52 +0000

Mrs. Jane who is moving into her semi-detached house in February. She states that she is totally confused about how her home should be renovated and decorated. Since this is your first home, Mrs. Jane doesn’t rush into things without a lot of thought and consideration. Look around, seek advice and get quotations before arriving at a decision. As a rule, buy the bare essentials and build up around them. Remember that it’s often years before owners actually have their homes done to their taste. For a start, we’ve designed five areas of the home for you namely the master bedroom, living room, kitchen, children corners and family room upstairs.

The Family Room is a cozy area for the family to gather in at the end of the day with a design suggesting a sofa set in plywood frame with fabric finish, book shelves and sideboard of compact chipboard for television, coffee table of chrome and glass and a cane divider. The Children corners, Your children (aged 1½ and 6 years) would certainly love a cheerful corner like this in the hall which you asked for. You can scout for bright wallpaper; pictures etc with cute animal figures and prints and have a small play area (as shown) with lots of shelves for toys. The Kitchen: A neat and compact kitchen. A practical area near the window is the inclusion of the sink and sideboard for preparation of meals. Floor- to- ceiling cabinet’s line two walls and a counter for quick meal’s of plywood frame with laminate finish is suggested.

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80’s kitchen style

Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:32:11 +0000

In an alcove also boarded up, was a very practical arrangement for heating water. Before going to bed the occupants stoked up a firebox under a big copper, and had hot water for the morning.” One of the great finds lay under accumulated layers of linoleum and newspaper: a floor of huge meter-square slabs of black slate that now shine as they must have done 120 years ago. This slate, like the stone, was quarried locally. Other discoveries were an embossed metal ceiling which was later covered up with plaster, and a brick arch between the kitchen and hall which had been blocked off by a small conventional door. The main rebuilding was a small study.

“The walls were so rotten,” Jenny says, “that we pulled them down and reused the stone. My idea was to make a room where a view of the outdoors poured in, yet retain the character of the house.”

Brook side’s simple lines may have been inspired by the stone farmhouse of the original owner’s native Scotland. The severity of the formal entrance is softened by the old-fashioned cottage garden of geraniums, daisies, rambling roses and a plumbago hedge. Red gum plank table and sheepskin covered benches are canopied in spring with the pink Dorothy Perkins rambler rose. Rustic stonewalled kitchen is furnished with pine. Whole wall facing the stairs to attic bedroom had to be rebuilt from the original stone.

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Doing up her first home

80’s kitchen style