Work to the upstairs rooms

As we had already taken off the wallpaper in all the rooms, the next job was to see if the walls would be in a good enough condition to paint.

They mostly weren't

Also as we had new electrics throughout the house we were left with gaps in the plaster from where the routing for the wires went.

The back bedroom

Behind the gas fire we found a lovely old fireplace

We (Jonathan) spent a lot of time with Nitromors trying to get the many layers of paint off.

Unsuccessful, so it has since been painted white!

The Front Bedroom

I know this wouldn't be to everyone's taste but I was incredibly disappointed to find this wardrobe had been smashed out of place by Jonathan who insisted it must go.

It wasn't original but must have been put in during the 1930's and I liked it!

It now looks like this....

Before we bought the house there was a fern growing near the guttering at the front.

We had this removed pretty early on and had the damaged brickwork repaired but it had already let a lot of water in. There is still a hole in the plaster above the window on the inside. 

The Box Room

There had been a lot of damp on the gable-end wall and we knew it would need some work but quickly discovered it would actually need all the plaster removing on that wall, dry lining and re-plastering.

The Bathroom

This room was the most disappointing.  As with the box room we knew there were damp issues, but again it was worse than we expected.  As Jonathan removed the tiles on the wall, whole chunks of plaster were falling away and so we realised we would need to do the same damp proofing as in the box room.

We found these bottles in the old cupboard where the water tank went.  They must have been there for years.  Not sure why they were there though...