Home Renovations Update
Firstly, do you follow me on Instagram? If not, then you should! I’m fairly good on there, I think… I hope… I don’t know! Anyway, if you do follow me on there, you might notice that I have been posting marginally less frequently on there because I have been posting a few more stories (and tweets, see the unglamorous proof here). Mainly about my home renovations which have been cracking on at a steady pace lately! I know it sounds insane, but we ended up ripping down a ceiling, and not even a small ceiling, it was a ceiling in one of our biggest rooms. Basically, there was disgusting artex on the ceiling (I’m putting in a wiki-link here, just in case you don’t know what I’m talking about!) so to get rid of it, we had the choice of ripping it down or overboarding and skimming it with new plaster. We would have happily overboarded, however, we would have lost the coving around the edge of the room, since our house was built in the 1860’s, we are so lucky to have so many original features, but I wasn’t about to loose one of them to some stupid artex. So we decided to rip down the ceiling (minus the coving) so we could could create a new ceiling. Does that make sense?!
Like Being ‘Gunked’, But Not Fun
We bought matching boiler suits, goggles, masks and started on hours (actually days) of hard graft, ripping down years of old plasterboard, plaster, artex and dust. With every bit of ceiling we removed, there was layers of dust that came down with it. It honestly felt like I was in a Children’s TV show being ‘gunked’, but there was no cameras and no bright green slime, it was just decades of dust and debris. Let’s call it ‘character building’ shall we?! It’s definitely an experience I wont forget in a hurry, that’s for sure! Once the ceiling was down, we decided to rip some plaster off the walls and expose a brick wall behind the stairs. To neaten things up, we decided to chisel back the old mortar so it can be repointed. Top tip: Do not attempt to chisel a wall. I cannot tell you how hard it is, it takes hours and it makes you ache all over. However, we did it!
A Neon Sign
Along side all the mess, we have also begun accessorising our house and I can’t even begin to explain how much fun this is! In fact, just today we hung a brand new neon sign and I’m obsessed with it already!!! I have been thinking about neon signs for a while now, but it’s been hard to find one that’s perfect. I felt a little like Goldilocks; some were too small (and a little naff looking) others were huge and fabulous buy cost thousands… and then I spied this little gem on Notonthehighstreet which was £499 by Love Inc. and just the right size, with a cool cool slogan. I love it so much, I’m also super tempted for this amazing neon heart which is amazing at £195! As soon as I spotted it I knew it would look great mounted on our pink brick wall. (Just to be clear here, this is a different brick wall to the one mentioned earlier, we have a thing for bricks!) As I’m sure you all know, notonthehighstreet is an amazing online shop which features the creme de la creme of independent designers and makers. I find loads of great things on here and in the past I have bought jewellery, handbags and homewears, it’s often the place I first spot a really cool new independent designer. Finally, it’s also brilliant if you are big into personalised items and love all things monogramed as that is a service that many of the brands can offer!
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So, there we have it, a little mess and hard work finally starting to pay off! A huge thank you to Love Inc. and Notonthehighstreet for sending me the neon sign of dreams, it really is ammmmazing!
This is going to be amazing, I can tell! Love your neon light. Can’t wait to see it all complete. X
Thank you so much Lucy!! I’m so glad you like it!
Ah that’s such an amazing sign, I want one! Can’t believe it’s £500 though xx
It’s so cool though! And a lot of neon signs we have seen have been over £1000!
Fair play to you both for doing the work yourselves!! xx
Beautylymin
We have had builders for most of it, but we have tried to do bits ourselves where possible! thank you though!!!! xxxxx
OMG that sign is AMAZE so jealous!
x0x0 Caro http://thecarolove.com/
Thank you so much!!! I’m so glad you like it!!!!! I’m so happy with it!!!!!
I saw this in your Stories- it’s brilliant. I really love it!
Thank you so much susie!!!!!
Omg that neon sign is awesome, one of the best I’ve seen xx
Lauren Catherine
Thank you so much!!! I’m so happy with it!!!!! I have been searching for a while!!!!
I adore that neon light. It looks amazing x
Thank you so much!!!!!
You’re working so hard but I know it’s all going to be worth it in the end. That sign is awesome – accessorising is the fun part! xx
Thank you!!!! It’s so much fun to do!!!!!
Such a lovely pink wall!!! I’m in love! Thanks for the lovely review of our LED neon. Really kind of you to take the time to review it for us. So glad you love it.
I love it so much! Thank you so much!!!!!
The Neon sign is just so cool I love it and I love the pink brick wall even more x
Thank you so much! So glad you like it! X
I can’t wait to see it all when it’s finished! All the hard work will definitely pay off!
Thank you so much! You are so kind! xxxxxx
Amazing, you’re so creative!
aw! you are so kind! thank you so much!!!!!!
I love that sign! xx.
Oh my gosh I how funny I was just looking at this on Pinterest! Love it! X
Ah how amazing!! Thank you