That brought back memories Colin! In November 1961, three months before we were married, we bought our first house - a 1938 semi. It had what we'd now consider gorgeous panelled doors in hemlock, (pine family), which is a wonderful straight grained timber free from knots. I spent the next six years removing every other ‘period’ feature such as picture rails, Bakelite light switches and so on. They’d probably end up on e-bay now. There’s a huge architectural salvage warehouse at Belper, near Derby, which sells all this stuff at eye-watering prices.
http://www.british-trees.com/treeguide/h...0000004672
I spent weeks removing every door, and flushing them with hardboard, stocked by DIY stores exactly for that purpose. I used several tins of Evostick, countless panel pins, chucked away to lovely Bakelite knobs and fitted ‘contemporary’ ones as they were then called. A major undertaking, the outcome of which I was very proud of, so for an encore, I went on to give the stair spindles the same treatment - again, lovely hemlock spindles, which I ‘boxed in’ with hardboard. Ironic that the original features would add value and period ‘character’ to a property of that era and make it easier to sell.
Barry Bucknell is also famous for being the co-designer of the Mirror Dinghy’ designed for the Daily Mirror, a DIY sailing boat aimed at bringing sailing within the pocket of cloth cap workers who comprised the Daily Mirror readership. It was a hugely successful venture, and they’re sailed all over the world, probably by people who haven’t a clue about the origins of the design.
Nothing at all to do with John’s 3028 restoration, but to use a sailing analogy, we’re allowed to drift off course on here without being jettisoned overboard as unwanted on voyage!
David
http://www.british-trees.com/treeguide/h...0000004672
I spent weeks removing every door, and flushing them with hardboard, stocked by DIY stores exactly for that purpose. I used several tins of Evostick, countless panel pins, chucked away to lovely Bakelite knobs and fitted ‘contemporary’ ones as they were then called. A major undertaking, the outcome of which I was very proud of, so for an encore, I went on to give the stair spindles the same treatment - again, lovely hemlock spindles, which I ‘boxed in’ with hardboard. Ironic that the original features would add value and period ‘character’ to a property of that era and make it easier to sell.
Barry Bucknell is also famous for being the co-designer of the Mirror Dinghy’ designed for the Daily Mirror, a DIY sailing boat aimed at bringing sailing within the pocket of cloth cap workers who comprised the Daily Mirror readership. It was a hugely successful venture, and they’re sailed all over the world, probably by people who haven’t a clue about the origins of the design.
Nothing at all to do with John’s 3028 restoration, but to use a sailing analogy, we’re allowed to drift off course on here without being jettisoned overboard as unwanted on voyage!
David
Regards, David.
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'I'm in my own little world, but I'm happy, and they know me here'
