Sunday, August 26, 2007
front door
The door originally looked like this. I love the numbers. Not.
The net curtain left by the previous owners didn't look that filthy when it was hanging up. We knew it was probably coated in filth, but figured it could stay until we'd found something to replace it. When we took it down it was nearly black - should have realised with the amount of filth in the rest of the house - and was chucked out in the garage to go with the binmen when they came for everything else. In the picture it does look quite vile actually.
After a coat of Nitromors it looked like this (reminds me of that bit with Neve Campbell in the hospital in the Craft - because I'm sick.)
After a couple more coats of Nitromors, some sanding and some wire wool (which gave poor Hedgie a very sore face - no she wasn't using it on her face, but it shedded lots of fibres while she was working damn hard) I didn't really know when to stop; every time I did I saw a fresh little bit of paint leftover.
And now it looks like this:
Yesterday I got round to adding shiny chrome numbers and chrome letterbox, as well as a chrome door handle. Pics to follow.
Comments:
That net curtain was indeed extremely vile - couldn't believe how grubby it was actually, it didn't look too bad in situ!
Looking forward to seeing the new door furniture my lovely!
(Face is pretty much recovered by the way *thumbs up*)
Looking forward to seeing the new door furniture my lovely!
(Face is pretty much recovered by the way *thumbs up*)
I'm glad your face is better - I'm sorry your poor fizzog suffered for my arty door, but it does look the mutts now. Just need an uber swish garden gate and a shiny garden to go with it ;)
African lilies along the front I think, with something low behind the wall, like Alyssum or something with lots of little flowers. *thumbs up*
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African lilies along the front I think, with something low behind the wall, like Alyssum or something with lots of little flowers. *thumbs up*
