This week most of the folks in the Move To Portugal household are in Portugal, yay! So to keep the posting going while we are away I thought I’d post a few before and after {renovation} shots of our house…… 
We bought our house, a three bed Victorian, in 2006 and it took us about six months, and £13k, to get all the work completed. In the brochure pictures it looks better than it was, the kitchen was unusable {really yucky} and the whole house needed damp proofing and rewiring…..we had 16 weeks with half the downstairs walls removed and no kitchen; not fun or frugal with three kids, lol…..hello microwave meals!
Every wall and every ceiling has been replastered and repainted; we paid for plastering, I did the painting……if I never paint another ceiling again…it’ll be too soon. We were quite lucky in that the previous owners had had new oak flooring installed in the two downstairs room just before selling, however these needed really protecting while the damp proofing and painting was going on.
The lounge: before
The lounge: after
*The previous pictures are from the ‘for sale’ brochure and not great.
Sources:
Paint: Farrow and Ball Lime White
Fireplace: eBay
Rug: Next
Glass Table: Ikea
Pictures: Print street seller NY, Frames Ikea
Table Lamp: M&S
Floor Lamp: Homebase {£10 in a sale}
Blinds: Fabric Warehouse
Sofas: So old I can’t remember!
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You did a great job!
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you’ve done a fantastic job! i remember having to go to similar lengths of decorating with my mother’s house when she moved there 10 years ago and the living with little more than a microwave for food, no money to spare and no downstairs space is still too fresh a memory! thankfully, my current abode required little more than a lick of paint.
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Well it was definitely worth it! I sympathise with having to live in it with children while the work is done. We’re renting whilst our new place is getting rewired, plastered etc etc and that’s been difficult enough! Nearly all done now;)
pamela x
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