Over the last years, we’ve been documenting the renovation of our Edwardian home in the south of Manchester. It’s been an exciting, fun and at times exhausting adventure but we’ve well and truly been bitten by the DIY bug and now can’t imagine our lives any other way!
Although we loved our home (and never quite got around to completely finishing it) we’ve now taken the huge and life-changing step and have moved to Berlin. After spending a couple of months living in a rented modern city centre apartment we’ve just purchased our dream apartment (which of course needs a lot of work!).
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Hi,
What paint do you recommend for kitchen cupboards etc…also any particular brand of paint for covering floor tiles?
When painting kitchen cabinets it’s really important to use the right primer and good quality paints. Which ones you use will depend on what your kitchen cabinets are made of. You can see the exact step-by-step process along with the exact products we used and recommend in this post about how we painted our kitchen cabinets. We personally haven’t tried painting floor tiles yet, so I’m afraid we don’t know which products are best for that. There are specific tile paints available though.
Hope that helps!
Cx
lovely home youve done a good job
may i ask, what colour did you use on your walls it is so refreshing!!!!!!
p.s i hope you dont mind me asking :)
Thank you, Nimah! We’re always happy to share any details of our home – which room do you mean? We share the details of what we got where and which colours we used in our source list (https://www.littlehouseonthecorner.com/source-list/). Maybe you can find what you’re looking for there? Happy to help otherwise, though!
Cx
Mind to tell me the brand and shade of the paint you used for your Edwardian house’s living room? The lovely gray.
Thanks, Nee! The colour in the living room is Steel Symphony 4 by Dulux. We share a full list of what we got where and what colours we used in the “Shop our home” section on the blog if you have any other questions.
Hope that helps!
Cx
Your DIY and renovation skills are incredible! So inspired by your home(s). I am obsessed with the grey chair with wooden legs and arms, that’s in your living room. Where is it from? It would be perfect for my living room! Thanks, Katherine
That’s so kind of you to say, Katherine!
You can find out what we got where in the Source List (https://www.littlehouseonthecorner.com/source-list/) section on the blog.
Having said that, the chair is from Ikea!
Cx
Hi! We live in south Manchester and are looking for a way to get cupboards into our alcoves like you did in your living room.
Did you have someone in to build them or do it yourself?
Andy
The cupboards were one of the first things we had built in our house (long before we realised how much we could DIY). We were unlucky with our first joiner and ended up ripping them out again. Looking back we could have built them ourselves but paid another joiner (who was great) to rebuild them. This is the joiner we used.
Hope that helps.
Cx