My Own Home - Hall, Stairs & Landing

Time for a quick update on our house!  We'd been putting off doing this because it was such a major job - not big if you're doing a total renovation but it felt pretty major to us!  We moved into our house in 1999 and lived with that carpet and the 1980's rails on the stairs for much longer than we intended (and for we, read "I"!) but we finally got round to doing it about 18 months ago - and it took a while.

This is how it looked before .......

As it was when we moved in

First re-vamp (but we still had "that carpet" up the stairs)

The first thing we did (or had done!) was to replace the 1980's rails with oak spindles. 

We also took the opportunity (as you can just see on the right of the photo above) to fill in the glass panels above the doors.

We then applied 3 coats of Danish Oil - and then went to Antigua!

Holiday over, it was time to get the paint brushes out ........yikes!!

We used Zoffany White Clay Flat Emulsion on the walls and Quarter Linen on the ceiling, skirting and woodwork.  The dado rail was too firmly fixed so we decided to leave it and paint it in with the walls (in acrylic eggshell).

Zoffany White Clay

Zoffany Quarter Linen

We had oak floor laid in the hall and striped carpet up the stars. Look at Crucial Trading, Alternative Flooring and Louis de Poortere for great striped carpets. 

This was taken after we'd had the floor put down and before we painted the skirting board.

 

I bought the glass pendant for the hallway from Fritz Fryer.  Also look at Jim Lawrence and Hector Finch for similar style glass pendants.  This pendant came complete with a ceiling plate and braided flex.  The pattress (wooden mounting) was sold separately.  The lighting on the landing was never adequate, so we replaced it with downlights. 

To cut a long story short (it took a while and there were times when we wished we'd never started) we're pretty pleased with the result!

The console table is the Tuvan console table from The Dormy House which I had painted in charcoal, The upholstered cubes are also from The Dormy House and are useful as extra seating in the sitting room and conservatory.  They're covered in Wemyss Sahara faux suede.

The lamp base and pomegranates were from John Lewis.  The lamp shade was from Shady Lady Lampshades and the dark wood mirror (just visible at the top of the image) was from Marks & Spencer.

The pictures are our photos which we had printed on canvas.

We put a wood venetian blind on the landing - the cat's not very happy because he doesn't have a curtain to hide behind now!


And here it was "dressed for Christmas"!

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