Flat when we moved in
Mr Fuzzy here
here are some shots of what the flat looked like when we moved in....yeah someone had taste issues, apologies to anyone who actually has wallpaper like this and likes it....but Mrs.Fuzzy and I both hated this stuff with a passion.
Mrs.Fuzzy will be back tomorrow to reply to comments etc she has a migraine :(
Hmm choc brown paint doorframe and half painted door....stylish :P
If smoking does this to a ceiling, imagine what it does to your lungs....yuck (the white part isnt painted, it was wiped with a bleach soaked mop.....)
Hmm what lurks in the sea of grass.....O.o
Arr mateys I thinks I spots a drying green o'er yonder....maybe :-S
Mr.Fuzzy and family members :-) with the ugly living room wall paper (grandmother, me, brother and his fiancée)
Carpet that would have been considered gaudy in the 70's
Wouldn't using real varnish have been easier than using this varnish effect crap? (Would have been easier to remove than this junk too :| )
Bathroom with stained floor...ick, and peeling plastic wall coverings
bathroom windowsill falling off......urgh
Kitchen with cabinets that a chimp could have assembled better :(
Ahh the bedroom.....mauve paint with what turned out to be the first of 5 different wallpapers underneath...stuck on with what appeared to be industrial grade super glue. Had these people never heard of the concept of stripping wallpaper???
hmmm did these people have no taste???
no no no....take off the paper then paint.....geez louise!!
I think this is the wall paper which was originally put up when the first person moved in during the 1960's...blast from the past indeed
And the "lovely" walls, stained with pattern from the wall paper in the photo above (there really isn't any paper on the wall there, [ack my head hurts] >> Mrs.Fuzzy)...I have NEVER seen wall paper that well adhesed.....3 days to get it off....even irked my grandad who is a master plasterer (recently retired) and he has stripped more wall paper in his time than most people have hot dinners. Water, soapy water, scoring...nothing worked apart from lots and lots of scraping......thank ye gods we got to this stage.
Tomorrow....in between if we can find the photos, or the finished article if we cant.
(I know...lots of photos :P )
here are some shots of what the flat looked like when we moved in....yeah someone had taste issues, apologies to anyone who actually has wallpaper like this and likes it....but Mrs.Fuzzy and I both hated this stuff with a passion.
Mrs.Fuzzy will be back tomorrow to reply to comments etc she has a migraine :(
Hmm choc brown paint doorframe and half painted door....stylish :P
If smoking does this to a ceiling, imagine what it does to your lungs....yuck (the white part isnt painted, it was wiped with a bleach soaked mop.....)
Hmm what lurks in the sea of grass.....O.o
Arr mateys I thinks I spots a drying green o'er yonder....maybe :-S
Mr.Fuzzy and family members :-) with the ugly living room wall paper (grandmother, me, brother and his fiancée)
Carpet that would have been considered gaudy in the 70's
Wouldn't using real varnish have been easier than using this varnish effect crap? (Would have been easier to remove than this junk too :| )
Bathroom with stained floor...ick, and peeling plastic wall coverings
bathroom windowsill falling off......urgh
Kitchen with cabinets that a chimp could have assembled better :(
Ahh the bedroom.....mauve paint with what turned out to be the first of 5 different wallpapers underneath...stuck on with what appeared to be industrial grade super glue. Had these people never heard of the concept of stripping wallpaper???
hmmm did these people have no taste???
no no no....take off the paper then paint.....geez louise!!
I think this is the wall paper which was originally put up when the first person moved in during the 1960's...blast from the past indeed
And the "lovely" walls, stained with pattern from the wall paper in the photo above (there really isn't any paper on the wall there, [ack my head hurts] >> Mrs.Fuzzy)...I have NEVER seen wall paper that well adhesed.....3 days to get it off....even irked my grandad who is a master plasterer (recently retired) and he has stripped more wall paper in his time than most people have hot dinners. Water, soapy water, scoring...nothing worked apart from lots and lots of scraping......thank ye gods we got to this stage.Tomorrow....in between if we can find the photos, or the finished article if we cant.
(I know...lots of photos :P )
Hey wicked paper ;)Would hazard a guess that you haven't got any like it now...hope Jen is feeling better today XX
ReplyDeletemy head feels a lot of better now thanks :)
ReplyDeleteYeah no flowered wallpaper anywhere lol If we could have just painted we would have, but nothing in the flat is straight and the walls are pretty bumpy. Would have looked really bad :/
All in all, though, it's going to be a great place when you've put your work into it.
ReplyDeleteAre they hardwood floors?
Whenever I have moved to a new property, I say that it takes cleaning the bathroom three times, before it finally belongs to me!
Poor owwwie head. xoxox
Thanks for the post Mr. F!
nah don't think they were hard wood. We could have maybe gotten away with sanding down the floor and varnishing the floors in all but the bathroom. That floor did need to be tiled, too much damage to fix cheaply. Theres carpet down now in the rest, and it muffles a lot of sound and much warmer on the feet lol kitchen got laminate tiles just for ease of cleaning
ReplyDeletethe bathroom was cleaned at least that many times lol The ceiling too, not a brown colour now (lots and lots of bleach)
The floors are hardwood, its just it would have been really noisy and just as expensive to sand and revarnish the floors as to lay carpet, plus carpet is warmer and softer on the feet.
ReplyDeleteWe are still looking for the in between photos, and also the photos of the flat as it looks now (ie finished :D )
We went for a pretty neutral theme colourwise, My idea as I felt it would let us get a feel for the place, the bathroom though is an exception >:)
>> Mr.Fuzzy by the way
ReplyDeletehope you are feeling better Jen xx
ReplyDeleteand that looked like lot of hard work to sort that lot out!
xx
feel better thanks, still having to take pills for the headache but its getting better :)
ReplyDeleteit was a lot of work. I'm glad we took all the pictures though, we would have forgot what it looked like when we started lol
I don't envy you all that work but I'm sure it will look much better when you have put your own stamp on the place. Oh yes, I am fanatical about cleaning the bathroom too when we move into a house that had previous occupants.
ReplyDeleteI really cleaned the bathroom as either the previous tenant had trained her cat (there were cat scratches all over the walls in all the rooms) to use the toilet or, had little kids visiting. yeah not a pleasant thought :/ it looks so much better now with the black and white tiles we put down :)
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