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Home restoration
A few green shoots…
The hall was undoubtedly the ugliest bit of the house when we moved in. The walls were painted in a shiny magnolia finish. This showed up every imperfection ...
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Home restoration
A note about cornicing…
When you paint cornicing with emulsion paint, it gets into the cracks. After multiple coats, the cornice looks like the section on the left – the floral detail ...
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Home restoration
Our conservatory – 6 months on
I still remember the first time I saw our conservatory. A small hexagon on the floorplan of the house, there were no pictures on the estate agent’s website. ...
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Home restoration
Welcome to Past Forward
This is our story of restoring a late Victorian mid-terrace in historic Greenwich, London, to its former glory. Built in 1883/1884 on the east side of Greenwich’s famous ...
