Saturday, April 07, 2007
Decorating Cerise gite
Caroline has been finishing off re-decorating Cerise gite for the 2007 season. Most of it has been finished upstairs with painting, laminate flooring and wallpapering. Downstairs was wallpapered a couple of years ago and most of it has stood up very well. The only part that need doing was around the kitchen wall 'return'. I suspect that because of the stools against the wall to use the breakfast bar people's feet have knocked the paper. Not a major job.
The biggest job is finishing off the ceiling. It is something she has wanted to do for ages, because the underside of the floorboards between the beams had been in-filled with polystyrene tiles when we bought the place. Not ideal.
With the help of a compressed air nail gun she is replacing the tiles with tongue and grooved pine planks (called lambris here) placed at 90 degrees to the beams. Every piece of plank is a different length by the very nature of old oak beams, so it is quite a slow job, but looking good. Over time they should age to a nice natural colour and certainly be safer and look alot better then polystyrene tiles.
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Decorating Cerise gite
