As part of a video series I worked on with Real Homes, we filmed a little experiment with one of the two original sets of architraves left here at Moregeous Mansions. Years of changes before our time here meant most were long lost and just two survivors remained with layers upon layers of old paint... Continue Reading →
Moregeous Monday Moments
I feel like I live in a recycling centre. There's cardboard everywhere: lights in boxes, tiles in boxes, fabric in boxes and not a moment spare to get all this delicious stuff on the actual walls. We've been away filming so much that poor old Moregeous Mansions isn't exactly progressing at warp speed but we can... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary: Bringing The Outside In
Are you feeling toasty tonight as the temperatures drop and the sleet sets in? Got the heating turned up a couple of notches? You lucky devil you. Seriously, I love that you've got your hygge on and I know I'll be hygge'd up with you very, very soon but just for now take a look at this and... Continue Reading →
Wanna See My (Nearly) Naked Corbel?
12 midnight. 12 MIDNIGHT! He'd been zedding for two hours by the time I finished sorting my poor broken corbel, but I definitely went to bed a happy stripper. Whilst we were taking apart Moregeous Mansions ready to be rebuilt again, one of the hallway corbels, a gorgeous original plaster wall feature, had literally dropped... Continue Reading →
Update: The Bathhouse Project
Everyone loves a good project right, but how would you feel about about a super sized room in super high temperatures on a super tight time scale! Let me tell you none of those things are putting us or the heritage Withington Baths' staff off, oh no. They/re made of tough Northern stuff here. Let's take a... Continue Reading →
Crowd Source Funding for The BathHouse Project!
Massive news today from down here at Love Withington Baths, the community charity we set up to save and then run the last working, water-filled Edwardian baths in Manchester, and probably one of the few left in the country! We've been running the Baths for a year come 20th June and during that time, on... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary #66: A Touch of Porch Stripping
Let's repaint the porch. Such an innocuous phrase. Just a Sunday afternoon job, you might think. Yep..... not here! Seven days later and I must confess that he's done all the stripping whilst I've been off working on client jobs and styling for ad campaigns and the like. One of us drew the short straw,... Continue Reading →