Renovation Project - more work on the stairs

Renovation Project - more work on the stairs

The sofas are cleared away again, we are going to have to move and cover them every day until the work in the living room is completed.

Today we are going to carry on working on the stairs, we have decided to plasterboard the side of the stairs that is facing the living room, this will still allow the stairs to appear open but will stop all of the heat from the fire from just escaping up the stairs, we have also not found another way of making the area safe and stopping any small children from falling through the hole.

John secures the plaster board and plasters the joints and once it has a coat of paint it looks like this is how it should always have been. We have said many times to be flexible with what you want to do, as the house will tell you what it needs, and this house definitely needed to have this bit of stairs blocked.

I spend the day sanding and wire wooling the stairs ready for varnishing (though we still have no idea what colour we are going to stain them!).

We have noticed though, that there are many wood worm holes on the spindles and the stair treads, these had been hidden by the dirt and old vinyl that covered the stairs. This now gives us a new problem to solve, but that will be tomorrows problem as tonight we have pulled out our sofa’s again and are settled down in front of the fire.