Phase 3 finished and Phase 4 started. Floorboards stained and screwed down, radiator installed, window surround reinstated and the chimneybreast re-skimmed.

This week's progress; I got paint on the wall, I got the skirting board stained and I've made good progress on stripping the floorboards.

I've been worn out and run down this week, trying to fight off a cold. Therefore progress nosedived... what I have managed to do, however, has been to sand down a good length of skirting board, which puts me in a good place to make decent headway next week.

28/09/25 update. Firstly, the front wall has been skimmed as far as I'm planning to at this time. Secondly, some of the loose floorboards have been screwed down. Thirdly, the new bedroom radiator has been bought.

Progress this week; the back wall and the alcove are finished. Work has carried on with staining the floorboards (but this is slow because of access and furniture). Work has started on the front wall.

This week then. The paintwork on the back wall and the alcove was completed, and 2/3 of the paneling has gone up. The rest if the paneling has been stained and is drying before I can it and fit it.

This week, things have taken another step forward. Paintwork on the back wall and alcove approx 2/3 done, and paneling starting to go back up.

A minor milestone reached - the entire back wall skimmed. Ready for smoothing down and painting.

With furniture moved, this week I've been able to 1. Patch in some large holes that opened whilst I was taking down paneling and 2. Start skimming the back wall. The general aim is to skim the rear alcove at the same time, paint this wall and rebuild the paneling.

The side wall is now complete and furniture has been rearranged. I now have the working room to proceed with both the backwall (more paper and paneling removed) and the front wall.

Bugger. Attempts to gently remove the first of the timbers on the backwall resulted in large sheets of the wallpaper coming loose, and big chunks of the plaster blowing. On the one hand that solves my quandry of which part of the room to deal with next, on the other it's a headache to solve.

What a difference a few days makes- when you've got time off work, and you're bored. I want to break up the middle strata into smaller panels with more timbering, and then start more detail work.

Reaching one goal- skimming one wall and a bit beyond- opened the route to some very swift progress. My idea of what I want the room to look like has changed a bit, but I've now got about 2/3 of this wall painted.

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One wall skimmed at least. We'll carry that on around the corner for a few feet, then smooth the wall down and then get on with painting and panelling ready for the radiator to go on.

Another week, another 30 or 40 square feet of plaster skimmed over. This is a long-haul part of the job but I'm hopeful of getting at least this wall done this week. Then to smooth it all down and paint it.

Meanwhile, upstairs I'm really not impressed with how the wallpaper is starting to come away from the wall. So for the next section of the room I'm skimming the wall with a thin layer of filler. And then I'll paint over that.

I'm calling it there. I'm done with scratching away at paint for hours and days. I'm going to let the weather have a go at it for a while and I might come back to it next year.

For the last few weeks I've been patiently chipping, scratching and cutting away at the paint on the back walls. Still masses to do, but it's getting there.

This week's progress. Snap, I'm afraid. For reasons unknown the wallpaper started to come adrift at the top, and the only way to really solve it was to tear large chunks of it down in strips, saturate it and re-paste. This worked, but... I've now got to repaint everything above the panels.

This week in the house. Firstly the effort to rip up the paddock lawn continued. Secondly, the front bedroom took a big leap forward with the paneling to the rear wall and the alcove being fitted. Still a lot of painting to be done but that particular section of the room is approaching completion.

This week in the house; 1 - the slow grind to repaint the back bedroom continues. The blue is now about done, and I've started the cream upper third. The wooden battens have been stained and they're waiting to be fitted. 2 - in the paddock, I've started removing more of the lawn.

This week in the house; lots and lots of filling and sanding back, to fill the joints in the lining paper. Even after that it's still not perfect and needs more attention. But - it's good enough that I can start painting and paneling.

This week in the house; 1. Repapering the long, tall bedroom wall concluded. 2. Removal of the cement render to the side wall was completed.

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This week I've been lining one of the walls in the front bedroom. I can't say as I particularly enjoy wallpapering - especially when it falls down at 2 in the morning - but I think it's getting there.

Task failed miserably.

This week in the house. Woodwork trim around the fireplace and to the doorway stained. The back wall and the fireplace inglenook have been sized preparatory to repapering.

Work in the house this week; I have taken the bedroom teardown as far as I can at the moment. As much wallpaper as I can get to has gone, the skirting board is being sanded down, the window sill has been sanded down, and a bit more of the carpet has been taken out. Next week the rebuild begins.

At the art gallery tearoom, earlier. "What's the soup of the day?" "Expensive".

Another week's work on the house; I found another wall that I could reasonably start stripping down. May as well do as much of it as I can in one go, as it limits how many times I have to have relatives over to move furniture around.

Well, that's literally hours of fun to be had spamming Google.

Discovered whilst removing wallpaper. There are many questions you could ask, and all of them are valid. For myself I'm asking 1) why?, 2) why is he so angry?, and 3) does anybody have a spare room (heck even a sofa would do) I can sleep on or in? I won't be able to sleep with that on the wall.

Another Sunday. More sanding floorboards. The good news is, I've gone about as I can with it without moving furniture. So next week I start papering a wall and staining some skirting board.

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And now what I actually had on my to-do list today. More sanding down floorboards, like I was last weekend. Still a lot to be done before this floor is ready to be stained.

Things I didn't intend to be doing today: submitting some of my 'stuff' for an exhibition.

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6 boards sanded across the room; objective achieved. The dust though...

Today's activity in my house restoration is sanding down some of the floorboards in the master bedroom. Happily it looks like there is only one layer of paint to cut through, in contrast to the staircase where there were seven or eight.

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