i spotted the antique house for sale on an interiors website and thought I could detect something beautiful under the layers of white paint. So I bought it in June 2020.
I spent more hours than I care to remember slowly scraping off paint from the exterior and went through many scalpel blades. Once the stone and brickwork was revealed, I touched up some areas of brick with acrylic paint but mainly left well alone and simply gave it a layer of protective wax.
The house is 65 inches tall, 21 1/2 inches wide and 17 1/2 inches deep. The three main rooms have a ceiling height of 11 1/4 inches.
Inside, the kitchen paint seems to be original so remains untouched and I just replaced 70’s sticky back lino with a vintage wallpaper floor. There are remnants of antique paper in the parlour, but I have not yet found a suitable solution to remove the awful white stuff it’s overpainted with, so I made false walls covered in one of Liza Antrim’s lovely papers and trimmed with Dresden paper. No papers remained in bedroom or bathroom so I used more of Liza’s papers in those.