First Floor Rear Bedroom - Painting & Floor Finishing

The first floor rear room overlooks the garden. I decided to "bring the garden" in to the room as such with a green colour scheme, a colour coincidentally which was popular in Georgian times.

The window shutters needed only slight attention, with the removal of some crude hinges on the left side.

Chiseling out sections for new brass hinges, once again keeping the remains of the original hinges in place:

I chose Farrow and Ball French Gray for the walls and had a colour match done for their Studio Green for the joinery as it was unavailable in my local shop.

This is one of Colourtrend's creams, for the ceiling and cornicing:

The shutterbox panels required some filling and sanding:

And i used filler to fill the large gaps where the upper sections of the shutter box joined with the window reveals:

The Studio Green colour match:

The French Gray:

The Farrow & Ball paint I used is not specifically breathable and as such should probably not have been used on these newly lime plastered walls, however breathability is much less of a concern on upper floors compared to the ground floor level. The first coat was patchy due to the porous and textured finish of the lime:

There was a very noticeable bend in the door of this room, so I set about correcting it with a ratchet strap:

After the painting was finished, I enlisted the skills of Brendan a local floor specialist to sand and stain the floors. These are the original pine boards, in excellent condition:

The latest in sanding kit for tight spaces, an excellent German-made machine:

Brendan testing out various stain colours, none of which I was a fan of, so we ended up mixing two stains together to get a darker brown shade:

The final mixed shade on the right:

The first coat of stain:

And then the second before varnishing:

The final result:

This was the Victorian fireplace from the front room which was moved to this room, formally painted yellow:

The floor is a little shinier than I would have liked, but it should dull down over time:

The new hinges with the originals still in place just below: